Humanity is increasingly experiencing itself as a whole, that is, as a collective personality. This collective personality is based on energies that have not yet been recognized. As human beings we are in a pubertal phase. At this moment we don’t know clearly who we are. But the development of this human personality keeps moving ever more speedily forward. At least we realize that friend-foe thinking, nationalism, religious fanaticism, and violence threaten us all and not just within the cordon sanitaire where these diseases are especially raging. What’s more, humans are on the way to becoming human. Even if the messengers of disaster on the nightly news don’t let up, neither will the Divine Principle let itself be blocked in its unfolding. The world is not the failed effort of a second-rate demiurge. It is the work of God who has assured us that everything [he/she] made is good. Humanity has a future because it is a future of God.
Search For The Meaning Of Life: Essays and Reflections on the Mystical Experience, by Willigis Jager, p. 214-15.