The mental process that takes place in an organism, in a being, in a human, with the role of self-preservation instinct*, can be adapted and oriented to direct the body either toward struggle with the natural environment through which it preserves itself, or toward cooperation with it. This adaptation and orientation is subjectively manifested in the body as a feeling of hatred toward the natural environment (if it is a matter of struggle) or as a feeling of love (if it is a matter of cooperation).
Struggle and hatred on the one hand, or love and cooperation on the other, are two fundamental principles that serve as modes of self-preservation and are applied as models for social organization in all systems and organisms in nature.
As a rule, in the initial phase of development of every system and organism, the living units that compose it try, on the principle of mutual competition, outsmarting, and struggle, along with the accompanying mutual hatred, to establish their relations concerning the joint realization of their vital interests. Since this invariably produces the opposite effect (manifested as a feeling of dissatisfaction, i.e., evil), in the end, the principle of cooperation and love always prevails (manifested as a feeling of satisfaction, i.e., good), and ultimately that principle becomes the basic model of social organization of all systems and organisms.
When this principle is discovered, understood, and applied, it is also a sign that the consciousness of the living units in the system or organism has advanced from a lower developmental level to a higher one.
This principle also constitutes the law of existence of every system or organism, because once the principle of struggle and hatred is no longer applied, the system stops being endlessly built up and torn down, and instead continues to live and exist continuously – eternally flowing through its three natural forms and states and fulfilling the purpose and aim of its existence, satisfaction and good – becoming perfect**.
* The self-preservation instinct is the force and manifestation by virtue of which consciousness exists and has the ability to feel its own existence as good or evil.
** To be perfect can only mean to be so through knowledge and understanding of the Truth, and that means to be a consciousness that is aware (before and during) of the action it performs – its cause and its consequence, and, in accordance with that knowledge, i.e., with that awareness, to be the consciousness that chooses and performs only those actions it is certain of, that is, knows (how) they produce good and do not produce evil, which is (only possible to be) done through understanding the difference between the two, thus manifesting love – i.e., the feeling and state designated by that term – a state conditioned precisely by that and such awareness, which further means that unconditional love does not exist.
To properly understand the evolution of Consciousness of the entire universe, one must first know its ultimate aim. That aim is spiritual and material well-being, and there is nothing beyond it. And that is what has the meaning of good. Everything else has the meaning of evil.
That aim cannot be achieved by remaining at rest, but only through movement and action. There are two forms of movement and action:
– disorganized and chaotic, by means of which spiritual and material well-being cannot be achieved, and which has the meaning of evil;
– organized and harmonious, by means of which spiritual and material well-being can be achieved, and which is the only one that has the meaning of good.
These are the natural and also logical laws by which the evolution of all matter, life, and the universe proceeds, and we must adhere to them strictly when assessing the developmental level at which the human being and our civilization, i.e., humanity, currently stands.
With the note that the greatest part of all nature has long since reached its highest developmental level, beyond which no further development is possible, so we can, when assessing our own civilizational level of development, take one of those most highly developed examples in nature for comparison. For instance, ant or bee societies have reached their highest level of development. These are highly developed social and economic communities with a just division of work and work results. Human society as a whole, due to the great diversity of its life needs, is a much more complex society, whose needs are not reduced to a single need, such as, in the case of bees, the collection of honey, which is why the human economic community must also be much more complex. It is like the human organism, which consists of many billions of cells, grouped according to the division of work into about 42,000 different parts, subparts, and organs. Therefore, the developmental level of the human organism can be compared to the developmental level of our civilization, so that we can correctly assess the level of development our civilization has reached.
And when we do so, what else can we conclude but that our civilization has not advanced very far from its beginnings. This does not refer to the development of material production technologies, which is very high and capable of providing material well-being for all people in the world, but rather to the very low level of spiritual development of humanity, achieved in the level of division of work and the distribution of the work results. These are not just, but still remain slave-owning, i.e., exploitative. We are faced with a situation in which the whole of human society is still divided into a minority class of masters and exploiter slave owners who have achieved their material well-being, and a majority class of exploited workers, slaves, and producers of material goods, who are not only materially endangered, since a large part of the world’s population lives in extreme poverty and misery, but are also subjected to hardship and danger by the minority class of slave owners, who continually start world wars in their mutual rivalries over material goods, territories, and power.