Martinus: Livets Bog, vol. 4, sect. 1225

1225. But despite this mental ineptitude or cosmically unconscious state the being was not entirely without cosmic forces of consciousness. Its heavenly or superterrestrial identity was so strong that it could shine through its physical sphere of interest and still be absolutely central to the being's terrestrial state, still be its principal desire throughout the zones of darkness. But, because of the being's still undeveloped senses, this desire was without details at first. But this did not prevent it all the same being a superterrestrial or heavenly desire that still differed from the being's other desires, which were purely physical, a desire that in a normal individual was quite superior to these purely physical desires. In the being's initial physical zone, where life was as yet merely a black night of silence, this strong or superior desire and its satisfaction were of quite another nature or kind than ordinary hunger and satiation. It could not be satisfied by the sensory reactions or releases of pleasure provided by matter in the form of "food" and "nutrition". It had to be satisfied by an entirely different sensation of pleasure. But where it could not be satisfied by the pleasurable reactions or sensations stemming from its contact with ordinary matter, it could be satisfied only by reactions that were more than the contact with ordinary matter. But something that was more than contact with ordinary matter could be only the Godhead himself. So this desire was therefore in itself a hunger for something superterrestrial, something heavenly, something divine, something that was "one with the Godhead". Nothing less could satisfy this being's superterrestrial desire or mental hunger. But the being was of course not conscious of the details of this desire. It felt it merely as an undetailed hunger, the satisfaction of which was a far more pleasurable sensation than the satisfaction of ordinary hunger. And it was with reference to this desire in "Adam's" mentality that the Godhead said, "It is not good that the man should be alone", for this desire could be satisfied only through the "pleasurable reactions" from contact not merely with matter, but with another living being.
At this point, at its final descending stage in the cycle, "self-fertilisation" was of course dying out. The being's capacity for the "double-poled state" was failing. But the "creation of Eve" was progressing. And with "her" arrival and thereby the arrival of the transformed "Adam" on the physical plane, the Godhead sent forth a beam from His heavenly flood of light to shine upon the terrestrial plane. In this way the being could have its heavenly or mental hunger satisfied in the same way as it had its material hunger satisfied. Since this superterrestrial or mental desire could be satisfied only by the reactions caused by contact with another living being of the opposite sex, the interdependence of the two different sexual beings thus firmly guaranteed the presence of, and access to, the light of the heavenly world or God's radiant force in the terrestrial sphere or the domain of the killing principle.