Martinus: Livets Bog, vol. 4, sect. 1146

1146. The terrestrial human being thus appears with two sexual natures in its mentality and organism. It is no longer a being that is exclusively "one-poled". It also has sympathetic feelings for beings who are not of the "opposite sex"; indeed, it has a great many interests that are not within the purely marital sphere, which means, the sphere whose sole task is to safeguard, protect and please its spouse and offspring. It has therefore a great many "artistic interests". Nothing that comes under the concept of "art", which includes "science", has anything to do with the principle of mating or marriage; indeed, it even undermines this principle. Is it not the case that the interests of one spouse very often cause the other to be envious or jealous? Is it not true in many cases that one spouse neglects the other in favour of its artistic interests? For the great artists and scientists do these interests not go before everything else? If the opposite were the case the being concerned would never become a genius. One can become a genius only in the field to which one can devote most of one's life, interest and energy. This does not of course mean that one does not find geniuses who are married, but it is inconceivable that such a marriage can be happy if the other spouse is a being that demands nothing but one hundred per cent of his or her marital rights. Such a being will curse, tyrannise and undermine its spouse's genius in every way imaginable. Only the being who itself has grown so as to cultivate artistic interests very much, and who, as regards consciousness, is situated a fair distance outside the purely marital zone can understand its spouse, and can have a reasonably tolerable marriage with this spouse.