Martinus: Livets Bog, vol. 1, sect. 208

208. Too early an attainment of cosmic glimpses - that is to say before the individual's moral standard is fundamentally established - will thus be very unfortunate, for it will take place or will be attained in some kind of unnatural way and in a restricted form or as a substitute for genuine glimpses. Absolute and infallible cosmic sight can be obtained only by cleansing the mind of all lower tendencies such as ambition, pride, intolerance, dishonesty and desire for power. The resisting of these realities is the unavoidable price which has to be paid for fundamental cosmic sight. That resistance makes the human being "pure in heart", and so it is a natural and genuine way of training for the attainment of divine sight. Any kind of training which is not synonymous with the resistance mentioned above must then be the same as a false training or an artificial method, and only in the most fortunate cases can bring those concerned into contact with some of the cosmic energies. But in that instance they have not been through sufficient moral development, and their spiritual bodies are still too feeble for this contact. Therefore these people will overstrain themselves mentally and become spiritual cripples, a condition that invariably causes fanaticism, which in the worst cases can be followed by mental weakness or insanity. And here it is that the individual meets the "guardians of the threshold" in the shape of his own unfinished nature. No one is able to "see God" except the "pure in heart". Therefore neither will we here in Livets Bog encourage artificial training in any form whatsoever but point exclusively to the way through morality. For with fundamental moral development the cosmic faculties will come about quite of themselves in a natural way in all their unfailing power and strength and without any danger or any risk to the individual.