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Chapter 10
Why primitivity and sufferings or the epoch of Doomsday exist
We all know this previously mentioned experience of life, for we all possess it. We see that this experience, which also contains manifestation or creation, spans from culminating hate to culminating love, which respectively also mean culminating bestiality and culminating humanity. And to the great questions, why should primitivity, ignorance, hate and suffering or all the so-called "evil" exist at all; why can the beings' experience of life not constitute a permanent or uninterrupted experience of wisdom and love, the answer is therefore inevitably this: that in order that the experience of life can at all take place it must be an experience of contrasts. Any experience whatsoever is only possible by virtue of the fact that it is marked by contrasts or opposites. How could an artist produce a painting if there existed only one single colour in existence, and everything would therefore have to have absolutely the same colour? How could sound-pictures, musical works or the like exist if there existed only one single sound or note? In such a case how could a spoken language exist at all? How would the experiences of well-being, happiness and joy be able to occur if one had not previously experienced unpleasantness, unhappiness and suffering? To the same ex tent as one has met with sufferings or an unhappy fate one feels the opposite of this fate as well-being, light and happiness. In order that living beings can experience the very highest form of happiness and bliss, joy and perfection in the experience of life, they absolutely have to experience the contrast to this high form of life-experience, meaning darkness and suffering. For this reason the form of life-experience of all living beings is organised in spiral cycles. These spiral cycles are divided into particular spheres of consciousness that span from the culmination of darkness to the culmination of light, which is the same as the culmination of hate and the culmination of love. Of these spheres of the spiral cycle the plant kingdom constitutes the first, the animal kingdom the next and the human kingdom the third. Thereafter the spheres are no longer of a physical nature, but constitute spiritual or mental planes of existence. These are described in more detail in my main work "Livets Bog" where they are called "the kingdom of wisdom", "the divine world" and "the kingdom of bliss".
      The eternal life of the living beings is thus a passage through these kingdoms. When they have passed these six kingdoms they proceed into a new spiral cycle, in the same way but in new forms, in order to again pass through the six kingdoms or spheres of this spiral cycle, and so on continuously through new cycles in all eternity. In every cycle the beings come to experience the culmination of darkness in order to acquire the ability to experience the culmination of light in the same cycle. As the beings have thus in every cycle the experience of the culmination of darkness renewed, they have thereby the capacity of their eternal ability to experience life, their ability to experience and to distinguish between light and darkness, and between evil and good, renewed and maintained, and will, by virtue of this talent and their own free will, appear in the light epoch of every spiral as the perfect human being in God's image after his likeness, thus being one with God in all eternity.


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