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The relationship between the physical world and the spiritual world is the relationship between a small part and a wider "whole", within which the first is unfolded. The impulses which tend towards this role come from the degree of importance given to the way of conceiving and living life; and, undoubtedly, technological and scientific progress, like a true revolution, induces man to exalt materialistic aspects of life beyond the limits of moderation to the detriment of those that are spiritual. This has played and still plays, in this sense, a predominant role. By the same token it is thought that the more man addresses himself to the materialistic aspects, the more difficult it is for him to understand the importance of spirituality. Fortunately this is not so, because, in reality, the closer we come to the bottom, the more we want to reemerge. (33:3) The Chinese theory of "Ying" and "Yang" (the two opposites) asserts that when one reaches the maximum, the other automatically appears, confirming what has just been said. (33:4) It is particularly in the exaltation of mere materialistic goals, at once the source and the common trait of all these ideologies, that we return to the nourishing sources of that mendacious concept that regards human being as incorrigibly selfish and aggressive. We have to free ourselves from this idea if we want to build a new world fit for our descendants [16]. (33:5) The fact that, in the light of experience, materialistic ideals have failed to satisfy the needs of the human race, invites an honest recognition that we must make an attempt to find the solution to the tormented problems of the planet.
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