Both the political State and the economic system will obtain from the
body spiritual, when under its own self-administration, that steady
inflow from the spiritual life, of which they are in need. Practical
training too for economic life will for the first time fully develope
its full possibilities, when the economic system and the body spiritual
can co-operate in freedom. People will come with a suitable training
into the economic field and will put life into all they meet with
there, through the strength that comes from spiritual endowment set
free from restraint. And people, who have won their experience in the
economic field, will find their way into the spiritual organisation,
and help to fertilise what there needs fertilising.
The effect within the political State of spiritual abilities being left
free, will be the growth of sane and sound views, such as are needed
in this field. The man who works with his hands will be able to feel
contented with the place his own labour fills in the body social. He
will come to realise that the body social cannot float him, unless
his hand-work has the guidance requisite for its organisation. He
will acquire a sense of the solidarity of his own labour with those
organising forces which he can trace to the development of personal
talent. The political State will afford him a ground on which he can
establish the "rights" that secure to him his share in the proceeds of
the commodities he produces; and he will freely allot to the spiritual
property, from which he benefits, a portion sufficient to keep it
productive. There will be a possibility for producers in the spiritual
field, too, to live on the proceeds of their work. What anyone chooses
to do in the matter of spiritual work, will be nobody's affair but his
own; but for any service he may render to the body social he will be
able to count on willing recompense from people to whom spiritual goods
are a necessity. Anyone, who is not satisfied with the recompense he
receives under the spiritual organisation, must have recourse to one of
the other fields, either to the political state, or to economic life.
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