We are born out of love. This is our inner source and desire. It is partly buried under what we have become. We not only have the fundamental desire to be loved, but we also have the fundamental desire to love.

The connection between us and nature is that we are nature. Nature is our precondition of existence. We can mistreat nature in the same way that we can mistreat ourselves. And yet the dynamic between human behavior and the response of nature seems to follow its own set of rules. It’s hard for our present consciousness to understand that there is independence and individuals, and at the same time interdependencies and oneness.

Nature underlies all of our social life with its different spheres. Our goal is a society that is harmonious within itself and with nature—both will be fulfilled at the same time. Through humans co-creating with nature, paradise becomes possible. As long as we are still on the way, it is helpful to differentiate societal interaction into specific arenas and to find attributes that are necessary for each one to flourish:

Human development—Freedom

Social relations—Justice

Economic value creation—Solidarity

The ultimate quality of all three attributes is love, which is the core of the highest consciousness. The connection between the inner, individual source and the highest consciousness is spirituality. It is a word for that connection—it could be the attribute for the inner, individual source.

Translation Laura Liska
Image Nighttime gathering in Sekem. Photo: Samuel Knaus