Martinus: Livets Bog, vol. 3, sect. 881

881. In his explanation of the "resurrection", in which one "neither marries nor is given in marriage" but is "like the angels in heaven", he has pointed out that the "kingdom of heaven" or the "kingdom of God" is not purely and simply a non-physical or "spiritual" kingdom but a perfected, intellectualised continuation of the beings' physical existence. As the world redeemer does not teach that this perfect form of existence is the same as that of the "angels in heaven", but on the contrary compares it merely with the way of being of these beings, he indirectly confirms the fact that the "kingdom of heaven" and its beings is something other than "heaven" and its beings. But if the two kingdoms are not identical, there must be a difference. But as the difference is not by nature "spiritual", it can be only "physical" in nature. The "kingdom of heaven" is thus the same as a physical existence that is so perfect that here the beings' way of being is like that of the "angels in heaven". The "kingdom of heaven" is therefore the same as the form of existence of "heaven" or the "angels" transferred into physical manifestation, life and existence, which is exactly the same as the complete fulfilment of the purpose of the world redeemer's high-intellectual, theoretical and practical manifestations on the physical plane. As we have seen, the "kingdom of heaven" is thereby precisely the same as what we in "Livets Bog" have got to know as the "real human kingdom" or the third section of the evolutionary spiral. Here the beings are, on account of the balanced adjustment of their sexual poles, so perfect that they are, not only with regard to the fulfilment of Jesus' ideals and precepts, "like the angels in heaven", but also with regard to being beyond "marrying or being given in marriage". It is precisely this perfected sexual way of being that, as evolution shows, will emerge from the ruins or degeneration of the present-day animal sexuality.