The Fate of Mankind
Chapter 42
An imperfect and primitive social system
The reader has now come so far in the subject matter of this book as to have become acquainted with the fact that terrestrial mankind as a whole consists mainly of individuals whose standard of evolution is such that their daily manifestations are dictated or controlled more by primitive tendencies of consciousness than by perfect love (meaning perfect feeling and intelligence).
As primitive tendencies of consciousness manifest themselves mainly in hate, envy, greed, blood-thirstiness, intolerance, overweening ambition and so on, and as the effects of these tendencies represent a perfect contrast to the realities that are the sole basis for an absolutely perfect social system, so the present fate of terrestrial mankind will of necessity manifest itself in a correspondingly primitive or abnormal and imperfect social system.
All terrestrial mankind is, as previously mentioned, a "theatre of war": everyone hunts, wounds and kills.
A fate representing such a condition can only be identical with the culmination of suffering.
But as suffering develops feeling and intelligence to such a state of reciprocal harmony that these ultimately appear together as absolute "love", love will gradually become the basis on which the reciprocal organisation of terrestrial human society will come to rest and thereby be in contact with the eternal commandment that is the fulfilment of all the laws.
As love is in reality identical with the combination of the highest feeling and intelligence plus intuition, and as such a combination is in turn the same as "the holy spirit", and as the present terrestrial science is this spirit in embryo, this science will thus become the dawning governing and administrative factor in the future social system of terrestrial mankind.
Here one must remember that even if science to a certain extent appears as light, it is still inferior to the primitive tendencies of consciousness and is therefore all too much a servant of these tendencies.
It is the control by the primitive tendencies of consciousness of intelligence or of science that has been able to produce such realities as torpedoes, machine-guns, grenades, poison gas or, in brief, all possible forms of the ingenious promotion of the explosive capacity of the energy of gravity or "the killing principle".
Developed feeling and intelligence will, to an equally tremendous extent, release ingeniousness in the promoting of the "life-giving principle", which thus means "love" or absolute happiness.
As science, which means the "intellect" of terrestrial mankind as a whole, will thus gradually become so perfect that it will liberate itself from being the obedient servant of these primitive tendencies of consciousness and so become the all-outshining basis for society, without which an absolute harmony or lasting peace cannot possibly be built up, I will now proceed to conclude with a short outline of the factors that, on the basis of this, are already developing rapidly and under the coming scientific government described above will to a great degree come to prevail.