Martinus: Livets Bog, vol. 4, sect. 1349

1349. Is then "communism" or the "kingdom" mentioned above more "of this world" today than it was at the time of Jesus? Well, there is at any rate the fact that "The New Testament", whose core content is the "gospel of communism", has been a state religion for centuries. It is of course obvious that this core content has been adapted or adjusted so as not to be too incongruous or constitute an apparently too unattainable utopia when confronted with "The Old Testament's" gospel of war, capital and revenge. As state religion the core content or very highest precepts of "The New Testament" were taught as ideals that only a "messiah" or "Jesus" could live up to; people had therefore to be content with being referred to this being's compliance with the ideals. That he had complied with them was thus enough for the almighty Godhead. In the "name of Jesus" one was granted "forgiveness" for the lack of neighbourly love that one manifested in one's daily life. And the real "kingdom of heaven", that is, the "kingdom of Jesus", the terrain of neighbourly love, the zone of true "communism", was classed as something that could be experienced only after death, something that was not intended to be a terrestrial, physical phenomenon. And life – with its dearth of neighbourly love, its murderous and vindictive tendencies, its authorised exploitation of neighbours based on the "false business principle" – could then, with the appropriate religious sacraments that "revoked punishment" or "forgave sins", continue its course in the habitual spirit of "The Old Testament".