859. And how could beings whose only experience of sexuality was the rutting "male" animal and the "female" animal on heat understand a sexual condition that is so different from their own? Their knowledge in this area would be firmly based on the facts that the beings' outward, physical organs had, over thousands of incarnations, planted in their consciousness as holy, inviolable ideals. That a "female being" was a "female being" and a "male being" a "male being" was unfailingly confirmed by the physical organs of the being in question. It was irrefutably clear what role a female organism was intended to play sexually, just as it was clear what purpose the organs of the male organism had. As long as the beings were totally ignorant of reincarnation, it was impossible for them to know that this arrangement of the organs, just like all other contributions made by organs, is merely a temporary phenomenon necessary for the eternal I's or being's passage through the various phases of life. The fact that the holiest precepts of their religion could never in any case whatsoever be anything other than totally unattainable utopias to an absolute "male being" and an absolute "female being", and would therefore be pure humbug or deceit if "something other" had not already taken place, has however begun to be clear at an early stage to the faithful adherents of these ideals. But they had no answer to what "this something other" might be. It was a mystery. Later the mystery became known as the theory of "grace" and the "forgiveness of sins through Jesus Christ".
      Because the ideals demand "universal love" and "loving thy neighbour as thyself", and as this was impossible owing to the beings' sympathetic faculties being based on organs that, quite independently of their will, created antipathy towards their own sex at the same time as sympathy for the opposite sex, they were unable to comply with the demand. But because they did not have the ability to see that this natural phenomenon was the cause of their inability to comply with the demand to be loving, being totally convinced that complying with this demand was in reality merely a question of willpower, they could imagine only that their failure to obey the commandment to love their neighbour was due exclusively to a defect in themselves. They regarded the commandment to love their neighbour as an order from God that one could carry out just as easily and tangibly as one could carry out the instructions in a manual for some kind of product. But as it nevertheless became a constant fact to them that they did not fulfil the commandment, they developed an inferiority complex. They believed that their wretchedness was due to lack of willpower, a character flaw or a lack of a sense of morality on their part. And consequently, their lack of fulfilment of the law of love came to be regarded as a "sin". And in this way the word "sinners" became the general term these beings used to describe all human beings.