6. Spiritual Scientific Findings on the Ideas of Freedom and Social-moral Life

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As I said, the book mentioned, “The State as a Form of Life” by Kjellen, is absolutely impossible because it uses this comparison in a completely impossible way. However, if one uses the comparison correctly, one can compare the individual state with the cell and the entire life on Earth with an organism made up of individual cells. Then this organism does not yet contain what develops in the organism as soul, as spirit. But what develops in the organism as soul, as spirit, is what matters; it is even very important that spirit be added to the total life of the earth. And only such a social structure of the earth will be correctly conceived, which, when considering the purely external, does not entertain the opinion that it can also encompass the whole human being.

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