“Democracy is thus the only means whereby the granting of the growth of life or the transformation of the flock from animal to human being in the most bloodless way can be revealed or practised by the cosmic principle of giving. True democracy is thus the creation of an opening in the terrestrial mental sphere that is growing in freedom through which the flock, in a way that is adapted to them, can ultimately be given unhindered access to the greatest gift of life: the widest possible or unrestricted evolution of spirit and culture, of wisdom and love and the consequent unshakably associated creation of an all-outshining peace and harmony as a fact in daily life on Earth.”

Martinus, The Road to Initiation, “The Culture of Giving,” Chapter 6