Martinus: Livets Bog, vol. 4, sect. 1517

1517. But in order that this police service or judicial system can be established, those who have most power today must surrender this power to the judicial system mentioned above. And the world has advanced so far in evolution and in the fulfilment of the divine plan of creation that the reluctance of the states to surrender this power is no longer one-hundred-per-cent. It is nonetheless very difficult to establish a world police force for the sole reason that the states have difficulty in reaching a reciprocal agreement that is solid enough to give each state the protection that could replace or render superfluous the protection they have been able to give themselves by maintaining their armed forces, both on land and at sea, but which they would have to give up in favour of a world authority, if such a world authority were to emerge or be created. It is thus easy to understand how very difficult it must be for autocratic superpowers to suddenly have to surrender their dictatorial authority and power. They fear not so much military attack or looting raids or the other states' desire for expansion, for such is precluded if there is a world authority; they rather fear losing some of the great advantages they have been able to maintain through their superior power at great cost to other states. If they were to surrender their power to a world authority, they would not be certain that such a world authority, once it had gained sufficient power, would accept that they maintain such advantages; on the contrary, it would not serve its purpose unless it established equal rights for all. It would not provide legal protection if it were a partial or biased institution. The superpower can thereby risk great changes that are a disadvantage for itself, both as regards its boundaries and its exploitation of its subordinate, conquered peoples or vassal states. If there were situations that the world authority found unjust, it would of course change them. If there were oppressed peoples for whom becoming independent would be just, the world police would not hesitate to see to it that justice was done. It is obvious that this would not be advantageous to a superpower. But since it would have surrendered its power to this police service or judicial system, it would be powerless in the face of such a change, in the same way as a criminal whose actions have been discovered and curbed by the police. It has long since been established as fact for the advanced researcher of consciousness that it is this calamity that fundamentally underlies the difficulties in the creation of a world authority or league of nations. It is naturally a matter of course that the superpowers concerned obviously do not view the matter or perceive the situation in the same terms as those we have put forward here, but would call such a legitimate intervention in their advantages "unjust". The superpowers' fear of losing advantages and their aversion towards surrendering any of their power to the advantage of others is thus the greatest fundamental hindrance to the formation of a world authority. It becomes increasingly obvious that the removal of this hindrance is therefore more a question of evolution than a question of dictatorial power.