Martinus: Livets Bog, vol. 4, sect. 1292

1292. And here we have arrived at the great cosmic "vantage point" that forms the basis for an entirely new world epoch in the history of terrestrial mankind. While world religions and world philosophy up to the present have been based largely on a "belief" in the existence of "evil" and thereby in a "devil" or "devils", the new world culture that is beginning to emerge now will increasingly see the universe and the situations occurring within it as divine, indispensable phenomena without which the structure of the world itself, and thus the creation and experience of the perfect life, would be an absolute impossibility. World religions and world philosophy or the entire terrestrial human range of ideas will make a pact with the view of the "initiate" or the world redeemer. In the form of spiritual science or cosmic analyses, this view will here make the "devils" of superstition and ignorance – with their supposed "wickedness" and the terminology, names and expressions for "vindictive" and "punitive measures" it engendered, such as "criminals", "sinners", "bandits", "scoundrels", "evil people" and so on – disappear from the terrestrial human sphere of perception just as the dank clouds of the night disappear in the face of the dawning morning sun. A new era is thus dawning over the continents and seas of the Earth. A "new heaven" and a "new Earth" are growing out of the ruins of the old world. Where previously the vibrations, energies or oscillations of the killing principle in the divine creative principle or in the process of perfecting the Earth were expressed and perceived as "God's wrath" and "indignation", as "God's punishment" and "revenge" upon "sinners", and where people ultimately justify their varying degrees of allegiance to these forces as "holy wrath" and "righteous indignation" and to a corresponding extent on this score spread death and terror among everything and everyone that was not in their favour and that they therefore did not like, a wave of understanding will now melt or soften everything that gives offence. After this the terrestrial human language will consist of a glorious terminology of pure love. The terrestrial human tongue will be transformed so as to be able to express only the Godhead's own view of the universe. Where previously reactions of the principle of killing, the explosions of the battlefield, the death rattle, screams and torment of the mutilated and wounded caused by ignorance and superstition sounded in the dark night of war, and where millions of war graves today are being drenched with the tears of grieving relatives of the dead lamenting the loss of their loved ones, divine voices will sound, the blessing of peace will shine, immortality will become science, the fulfilment of the law of neighbourly love will become a matter of course. In truth "Everything is very good".