created. In religious terms: if God allowed men to find the kingdom of heaven, they would be content with it whenever they did find it, and never bother to create it. The only way of persuading men to create perfection, is to make sure that they never find it. You never do find perfection in nature; you may find the illusion of it in a flower, but it does not last. The universal rule in nature is birth, maturity, senility, death. Perfection even in eternity has to be created. How is it created? By consciousness synthesis of course! Or if you prefer the vernacular, you set out on an adventure to create a sense of indwelling between yourself and another. This is what the book is all about.
I have never been able to conceive of separate people being able to combine to defeat evil. Certainly people must combine, because it is numbers of people who alone achieve anything. In war the Army can sometimes weld men's efforts into such cooperation that they achieve miracles; but war is evil, although sometimes it may be a very necessary evil. Nor is our civilian society in any better position. As long as people remain separate, evil will always have the advantage over goodness; or if you prefer it, the more evil man will always outmanoeuvre the less evil man. In spite of man's best endeavours, evil always manages to raise its head again. When the Church tried to organise the world, by imposing a discipline from without, in the middle-ages, it ended with a corruption so evil that it needed the titanic courage of Martin Luther to challenge it. After he had challenged it, Europe descended into the Thirty Years War, when Protestantism was fighting for its life, and which reduced the population of Germany from sixteen millions to four. That gives an idea of the magnitude of the evil that had to be overcome. In my opinion, there is no chance of men co-operating successfully to defeat evil, by means of a discipline…