Martinus: Livets Bog, vol. 4, sect. 1236

1236. Since nothing can be "finished" while being created, but absolutely must remain "unfinished" until its creation is complete, the identity of the "male being" and the "female being" or "man" and "woman" as "sinners" is thus, in the absolute sense, merely "superstition". No one can be a "culpable sinner" in the absolute sense. No one can help being where they are at any given moment in their transformation from "animal" to the "perfect human being in God's image". They cannot of course reveal or express steps in evolution that they have not yet reached and therefore have no knowledge of. Every being must necessarily at every moment express the details and characteristics of its specific step. It cannot, however, be a "crime" that one human being does not have the same talents or the same mental level as another. To "punish" the former being for being less gifted reveals merely a rather serious spiritual ineptitude in the "punisher". A less talented person does not become more talented by being "punished". If it were so easy to transform a villain into a saint, all the people of the world, indeed, even the animals, would of course have long since become "angels". No, miracles such as these do not happen. The transformation of the living being from an "animal" into a "human being" is promoted not by "punishment" but solely through the being's personal experience of "cause and effect", this experience being in turn the same as "evolution".