Just as our inner life is the battlefield of mighty forces, so this area is the scene of violent struggles. The struggle for existence, the covetous will, spring from our self-centered ego. These forces are always there, and their power working in us is simply the principle of evil. The arch-enemy of life is the covetous will, the business spirit of Mammon, the legal spirit of property relationships, the detachment of sexual desire from the soul and from the unity of the spirit, away from community of spirit. Whoever in greed holds fast to his own possessions, even while his inner self urges him and the will of his spirit drives him to find common life and work and fulfillment with all that is living, is a murderer and devastator of his own life and the life of his fellow men.
Love alone is life.
Only through love is life redeemed. But love itself must be redeemed, for we are diseased in our love. Our love is degenerate, our souls corrupt, our spirit dispirited. And just for this reason the faith that there can be community among men is lacking. We no longer believe that there can be community in the Spirit.