Livets Bog, vol. 1
A question and answer concerning Truth. The "pleasant good" and the "unpleasant good". A moral genius
28. In this connection one could ask: "For how long must the Eternal Truth continue to be revealed?" And the answer is: "Until there are no more veils to be found surrounding the Truth". Then again one could ask: "When will no more veils surround the Truth?" And here the answer will be: "When the individual"s sense perception is so far advanced in its development that he is capable of experiencing as a realistic fact that - everything is very good - by then the revelation of the Eternal Truth is completed, for indeed that experience could not exist without being identical with the actual experience of that same Truth's scientific basic analysis". In other words, the individual no longer lives with the old superstition or idea that something is evil. On the contrary, he experiences and understands that all the so-called evil - in a divine or cosmic understanding - constitutes just as indispensable a factor in promoting an individual's development, or the forming of consciousness, as the so-called good. And the good and the evil are thus considered identical in the divine basic analysis. Of course this does not mean that evil is also pleasant, but rather that, for the sufficiently advanced being, it will be considered just as much a blessing as good, and that these two realities can therefore only be analysed as expressing correspondingly the "unpleasant" good and the "pleasant" good.
      Any seeker of Truth who has developed so far as to be able to experience and carry out the above analysis, solely by his own sense perception and without any theoretical knowledge learned from other people, has thus reached the end of the journey with regard to the revelation of the Eternal Truth or the basic analysis of life, and can therefore be recognized as identical with the kind of human being who has become "one with the Way, the Truth and the Life" or with such a human being who, here in Livets Bog, has been termed a "moral genius".