Martinus: Livets Bog, vol. 4, sect. 1247

1247. It also emerges here as a fact that "punishment" of and "revenge" on these beings cannot be the same as true "justice". To "punish" a being for something he does not know must surely be at least as great a "crime" as the "crime" for which he is "punished". So the words of Christ, "For with what judgment ye judge ye shall be judged", likewise emerge here as scientific truth. He who "punishes" a being, whether it be with an unkind word or the infliction of direct bodily suffering, renders himself guilty of manifesting exactly the same principle as the principle that he and the state "judge" and "punish" "criminals" for. If his "younger brothers" on the ladder of evolution are "criminals" because they act according to their own "concept of justice", then both the state and the law-abiding citizens are also "criminals". They too act according to their "concept of justice". Any form of judgment of other beings as "criminals" is thus an absolute judgment of the judger's own being. His judgment reveals completely what he understands and what he does not understand. It shows fully his own moral standard. Since "criminals" in the absolute sense cannot exist, anyone who judges another being as such will, with this judgment, commit an "injustice" towards the other being. He brands him as something he is not. And through his judgment the judger reveals that he is guilty of the same infringement of the law as the infringement with which he brands other beings as "criminals". In truth only "he that is without sin can cast the first stone".