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"What the modern spirit has sought for is the economic social ultimate, -
an ideal material organization of civilisation and comfort - , the use of
reason and science and education for the
generalisation of a utilitarian rationality which will make the individual
a perfect social being in a perfected economic society".
Our modern culture is based on the principle of concurrence . Man has inherited this behaviour from the animal kingdom where it is a neccessity to survive. We see the limitations of this system - which has no moral at all - today : There is growingly less win because of concurrence, people loose their jobs and so moral is degrading. Only a certain rich class benefits from these developements.
In the underdeveloped countries people mostly have to work under incredible conditions and earn just as
much as to survive.
Modern wars have their battlefields within the societies, the manyfolded battles for position and power,
for posession and wealth and for the most attractive partner, the points of attraction for the small human ego.
The roots of the modern global culture are the vital forces of the lower nature, of samsara,
and seeing this our culture tries to whitewash its primitive roots and the perishableness
through technical innovations and styling and luxury, and to make the happy
consumers blind and satisfied and tame, all that on the costs of a plundered nature and of the
poor nations.
A worldly socialism can not really change these problems, because his basis
would be the too human nature. The worldwide overpopulation is only one indicator.
First through the real common realization of universal religious principles
mankind will be able to raise above the animal kingdom
and learn to transform the primitive human nature.
Another modern problem is the international interlacing of world-economy.
The poor countrys mostly serve as supplier of cheap raw materials for the industralised
countries who would not be able to have this standard of life without such cheap
fountains. Their societies have often become a caricture of a modern society
just serving as a inexpensive supplier of work and industrial products and as
markets for the industry-nations, suppliers who cannot pay their interest
and are highly indebted.
"The first danger is a resurgence of the old vital and material primitive
barbarian in a civilised form; the means Science has put at our disposal eliminates the
peril of the subversion and destruction of an effete civilisation by stronger primitive
peoples, but it is the resurgence of the barbarian in ourselves, in civilised man,
that is the peril, and this we see all around us.
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As result of the modern ignorant way of life mankind sinks more and more in the forces of the body and closes the doors to the forces of evolution.
Real cultural life needs at least the well known but insufficient four freedoms as
A.A. Baileys new WGW stated over 50 years ago - but it must be seen that the
support of her White Brothership is an illusion, and so the
WGW had no real success :
Morality and Nature-Law are in reality the same, based on the principle of divine harmony, a harmony which does not develop when through observance of the rules and ethics of a specific religious movement. Only a spiritual harmony can prevent the chaos which can only be reached by spiritual developement.
Nowadays freedom is often misunderstood as complete unboundedness, as "to do what one wants",
but such a view forgets the retroactions of all deeds in the area of karma.
Absolute freedom would mean the disentanglement from everything inclusive the
limitations of the small person.
Even the human rights mostly just stand on paper worldwide, everything has its own price, and therefore our culture has a doubtful future . Master Sri Aurobindo ("The Mother") said : "Modern man is an asura; the asuras understand only the language of fight", and further on : "Might, wealth and sexuality are the most attractive things for the human EGO". "We must replace competition and strife by collaboration and fraternity." - The Mother(Aurobiondo) The average man is completely unsensitive for spirituality, and he follows the rules of his unconscious nature. The simple rule is : "Where the STREAM does not flow exists no hunger for the stream". Therefore it is advisable for the true seeker to live after the old traditional hermetic principle of "KNOWING-DARING-WILLING-RETICENCE", a bit like in the middle-ages, because we have to live in a modern intolerant and often very negative world ! The purpose of the reconnaissance was once to see things with the reason and not to beleive in vague and strange explanations, but modern reason is based on models and notions and ideas with their limitations. The majority of people is not enough intelligent to understand these scientific developements, despite from the limitations of modern science, and they would not live after the realizations because they are bound to the zigzag course of their vital nature.
Some readers may argue that these thoughts about psychology and society are
not necessary for the understanding of the spiritual process.
But we are a part of this world, and we are causing karma for other people
in daily life and we are still working at our own personal karma.
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It is not the purpose of this website to make prophecies of an end of this
materialistic culture.
Buddhism knows similar prophecies which have been interpreted by many incompetent lamas :
"That which is a mystery shall no longer be so, and that which has been veiled will
now be revealed; that which has been withdrawn will emerge into the light, and all
men shall see and together they shall rejoice. That time will come when desolation
has wrought its beneficent work, when all things have been destroyed, and men, through
suffering, have sought to be impressed by that which they had discarded in vain pursuit
of that which was near at hand and easy of attainment. Possessed, it proved to be an
agency of death - yet men sought life, not death."
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