The fifth thought-concentration in the Lord's Prayer is "Give us this day our daily bread". Through these words the individual has been given a great aid. In the zone of the animal kingdom the maintenance of life is based on struggle. It is in this zone that the principle "One man's loss is another man's gain" culminates.
      For terrestrial Man the struggle for life still prevails to a very great extent, just as the old tradition "In the sweat of thy brow shalt thou eat thy bread" is still in force. As long as Man must "elbow his way" so much in order to secure for himself his "daily bread", the latter meaning the minimum conditions for the maintenance of his health and well-being, the one with the strongest "elbows", the one with the strongest physical powers, the one who is the most cunning, brutal and ruthless or insensitive to his neighbour, will dominate in obtaining access to the vital physical necessities of life. To the less "elbow-strong" being, the vital access to these necessities therefore, to the same degree, becomes an act of grace dependent on this dominating party, the more so because the latter does not acknowledge any form of satiation of his desire to possess these necessities. We therefore witness the peculiar phenomenon within terrestrial humanity that a few single individuals are choked with wastefulness, gluttony, idleness and over-refinement based exclusively on immense riches, on hundreds and hundreds of homes or the vital necessities of thousands of fellow beings which have become the "legitimate property" of these magnates. It is a matter of course that access to these vital necessities for these thousands of fellow beings can only be granted through a substantial tax payment to this owner of the "legitimate property" or to the "legitimate" producer of these necessities, as long as these owners are insatiable or ferocious in their desire to possess. This tax payment to the "legitimate" owners of the vital necessities does not then stop at any reasonable limit, but aims at a total ruination of everything and everybody in favour of the accumulation of further riches at the feet of these "elbow-strong" beings, whereby new and even more drastic ruination can be implemented. That this state of things had to result in poverty, misery and starvation for millions of other beings within the society of terrestrial Man has long ago become an unshakable fact. No wonder that these beings cry to God for their daily bread. That this prayer is in contact with the divine will also becomes a fact through the circumstances that the same divine will long ago began to liquidate the above-mentioned unfortunate conditions regarding vital necessities and their distribution. Government, state administrations and authorities which keep the administration of the necessities under control have arisen, and access to these vital necessities is under increasing supervision. Laws are passed to protect the weak and less "elbow-strong" against the more stronger individuals fierce but, in the shape of "legitimate business", camouflaged robbery and plundering. That this development of authority or state power is not going to be stopped until it has reached such a position that it fully guarantees every human being equal access to vital necessities and makes every form of material poverty, starvation and misery (as well as every form of anti-social access to wastefulness and gluttony or any other misuse of physical necessities or materials) impossible, is an ideal which more and more unshakably forms the foundation of all modern political movements and struggles. Indeed, the divine will is strongly at work trying to grant the fifth thought-concentration in the Lord's Prayer.
      Praying for daily bread is thus more than just praying to God for instant help in a suddenly arisen physical situation in which access to other help seems to be blocked and in which of course such a prayer is absolutely appropriate, but this prayer is also in its deepest, cosmic nature a total direction of the will of the one who prays in contact with the sublime divine will concerning the creation of the perfect society or the foundation of the real human kingdom on earth.