22 Psychic Destiny Comprises Party And Class Spirits

When people bind themselves together for special interests, their united thoughts take form.

• This form is more or less defined according to the definiteness of the thinking.
• It is energized and actuated by the desire which they entertain, and so is brought into existence the party spirit.
• The party or political spirit is not a mere figure of speech, it is a psychic entity which represents the psychic destiny of a large or small party.
• From local party spirits the spirit of state and national politics is made up.
• Party politics is an enemy to democracy because it divides the people, causes them to be against each other and prevents them from having a strong and united government.

Similarly there are spirits of definite classes, like those of the professions, with their characteristic prejudices, conservatism and privileges.

• During prenatal development, politics and patriotism are implanted in the astral body of the fetus, and this class impression is part of the psychic destiny of the individual.
• So persons have predispositions to callings and inborn prejudices for or against institutions.
• This impression gives the tendency to their lives which thus decides their entering politics, civil, military, clerical or other class life.
• The more strongly the astral body is impressed before birth by the psychic entity that rules a nation, party, church or class, the stronger will be the love for these things.

This adherence has its good and its bad sides.

• It is wrong for one to allow any of these spirits to influence him to act against his standard of right.
• When one's prejudice is aroused, he should see whether the principle involved is right.
• If so, he should support it; if not, he should discountenance it, even though he may be frowned on or injured.
• To the degree of his opposition he frees himself from the destiny of the selfish multitude who remain subject to the class, church and similar spirits.