Martinus: Livets Bog, vol. 3, sect. 914

914. There is no denying that this ability is under development and that mankind's access to the vital resources of life is on the increase. We have mentioned several times here in "Livets Bog" how mankind has, through its understanding and its growing technical and chemical skill, gradually made the elements work for human beings, thereby making their life easier. It is true that this skill has also brought an enormous amount of disappointment and misery into the beings' fates, but it cannot be denied that this influence on their fates, in connection with the many other causes of suffering, has gradually become more and more an indication of how one should not use one's knowledge and skill or one's command of the forces. Is it not precisely the consequences of the unfortunate use of the energies, forces and materials that forms the basis of both religious and materialistic precepts, directives, instructions etc.? Is it not also the consequences of the same unfortunate distribution of the planet's vital resources that have given rise to the great questions: "What is truth?", "What shall I do to be saved?", "What shall I do to be happy, to enjoy life and existence?" Does not the mentality of present-day mankind find expression in one single great question? And is not the development of the answer to that question beginning to manifest in religions, research and science? Is not the increase in the manifestation of colleges, universities and schools an incontestable proof of the great continuation of the plan of creation or the transformation of the Earth right into the human mentality? What other phenomenon can possibly be the cause of this human development? And is not this fact given even greater confirmation because the inner attitude is directed precisely towards happiness and is crying out exclusively for it? What is happiness other than the very fact that one can see that one's physical and mental well-being is completely safe?