Livets Bog, vol. 1
"The Expulsion from the Garden of Paradise" as an expression of love. "The voice of the divine Father"
85. And so the animal kingdom is that "Garden of Paradise" from which the prospective human being has to be "expelled". This "expulsion", however, is not a "punishment", but appears, on the contrary, as the highest expression of eternal love occurring behind all phenomena. And out of this love, laws, just as eternal, determine that living beings will be guided forwards and upwards, experiencing more and more beautiful forms of existence. And in order to influence all human beings to abandon that state of animal harmony and happiness in which they lived in the animal "Garden of Paradise" and to prevent them from being excluded from growth towards greater light and perfection, no other means could exist that this - to let a stronger light from a higher kingdom begin to radiate into the animal kingdom. This higher kingdom constitutes the "real human kingdom", and its radiant light streaming in over the Earth will thus be recognizable as the "voice of the divine Father" directed towards "Adam" and "Eve"; in other words the Divine Creative Principle's light radiation.