Livets Bog, vol. 4
Why the son of God became a materialist and forgot the existence of the spiritual world
1296. The more one-poled the son of God became, the more enormous the demand for "ownership" grew in his consciousness. Indeed, this demand became so strong that not even possession of the opposite sex was a sufficient object for this demand. Possession of almost unlimited amounts of material phenomena or created things became necessary too, even if they ultimately could not satisfy this insatiable desire either. Gradually the son of God thereby became so preoccupied with satisfying this insatiable desire that there was no time for, or interest in, the "pinnacles". And the more knowledge he gained of the details of the "valley", the further away he got from the "pinnacles". And the further away he got from the "pinnacles", the more unclear became the local details of the "pinnacles" or the light. Indeed, in the end he could no longer see even the contours of the "pinnacles". And the illusion that the "valley" and its details were the only things that existed became fundamental. And here we find the son of God at the peak of his knowledge of the local details of the "valley" (material science), but totally ignorant of the existence of the "pinnacles", the light or the spiritual world, indeed, as a downright hater of every system of thought that even hints at or reminds him of this existence.