Prayer Is Not A Discourse.

There Is A Limited Elite That Understands The Secrets Of Their Own Techniques, But Not Necessarily Of All Techniques. These Men Are Close To The Seat Of Modern Governmental Power. The State Is No Longer Founded On The 'average Citizen', But On The Ability And Knowledge Of This Elite. The Average Man Is Altogether Unable To Penetrate Technical Secrets Or Governmental Organization And Consequently Can Exert No Influence At All On The State.

It Was With The Industrial Revolution, As Society Plunged Ever More Eagerly Into The Conquest Of Material Riches And Bent All Its Energies To The Accumulation Of Goods, That Material Poverty Became A Major Problem. Obviously, This Meant Abandonment Or Downgrading Of Spiritual Values, Virtue, Etc. To Share Or Not To Share In The Increase Of The Collective Wealth-this Was The Number One Question. It Was The Desire To Acquire Wealth That Prompted The Poor To Start Fighting.

Thinking Has Become A Superfluous Exercise... Purely Internal, Without Compelling Force, More Or Less A Game.

Salvation Is Universal Because The Love Of God Encompasses All. If God Is God And If God Is Love, Nothing Is Outside The Love Of God. A Place Like Hell Is Thus Inconceivable.

Totalitarianism Extends To Whatever Touches It...psychological Technique, As It Operates In The Army Or In A Great Industrial Plant, Entails A Direct Action On The Family. It Involves A Psychological Adaptation Of Family Life To Military Or Industrial Methods, Supervision Of Family Life, And Training Family Life For Military Or Industrial Service. Technique Can Leave Nothing Untouched In A Civilization. Everything Is Its Concern. Technique, Which Is Destroying All Other Civilizations, Is More Than A Simple Mechanism: It's A Whole Civilization In Itself.