Martinus: Livets Bog, vol. 4, sect. 1242

1242. Within the being there is thus an inner force that is a stronger factor than all external prohibitions and manifestations of power in the form of "punishment" and "terror". This inner factor is the being's mental, organic structure. This has come into existence solely through the experiences, habits and tendencies that it has experienced and developed through its drive for self-preservation or its external interaction with Nature. These experiences, transformed into faculties and talents, naturally form the absolutely firm foundation for this being's character and perception of life. A being's character and talents are not merely a momentary whim or a temporary act of will on the part of the individual. The character or the being's moral perception and view of life can be determined solely by the particular fate or interaction that exists between the life of the being and the life of its surroundings. The impressions or the view it acquires of its surroundings, its recognition of whether these surroundings are "evil" or "good" is not determined by its will. The being will sense these surroundings as "evil" or "good" quite regardless of whether "it wants" or "does not want" to sense them in this way. Sensing a thing as "justice" is thus in itself not a question of "wanting to" or "not wanting to", but on the contrary solely a question of the faculty to sense or perceive, which in turn is solely a result of what the being has experienced previously, what it has gone through and the developed faculty to think and understand ensuing from this.