necessities (economic)

• early civilization forged upon anvils of

66:5.136. The col­lege of re­vealed re­li­gion. This body was slow in func­tion­ing. Uran­tia civ­i­liza­tion was lit­er­ally forged out be­tween the anvil of ne­ces­sity and the ham­mers of fear. But this group had made con­sid­er­able prog­ress in their at­tempt to sub­sti­tute Cre­ator fear for crea­ture fear (ghost wor­ship) be­fore their labors were in­ter­rupted by the later con­fu­sion at­ten­dant upon the se­ces­sion up­heaval. The head of this coun­cil was Hap.

• primitive society founded on reciprocity of

68:1.3Prim­i­tive so­ci­ety was thus founded on the reci­procity of ne­ces­sity and on the en­hanced safety of as­so­ci­a­tion. And hu­man so­ci­ety has evolved in age­long cy­cles as a re­sult of this iso­la­tion fear and by means of re­luc­tant co-op­er­a­tion.

• tie man up with reality

99:7.5Eco­nomic in­ter­de­pen­dence and so­cial fra­ter­nity will ul­ti­mately con­duce to broth­er­hood. Man is nat­u­rally a dreamer, but sci­ence is sober­ing him so that re­li­gion can pres­ently ac­ti­vate him with far less dan­ger of pre­cip­i­tat­ing fa­nat­i­cal re­ac­tions. Eco­nomic ne­ces­si­ties tie man up with re­al­ity, and per­sonal re­li­gious ex­pe­ri­ence brings this same man face to face with the eter­nal re­al­i­ties of an ever-ex­pand­ing and pro­gress­ing cos­mic cit­i­zen­ship.