Martinus: Livets Bog, vol. 4, sect. 1359

1359. This ideal is not something invented or fabricated by human beings or any other being. It is Nature's own logical method of creation. It is the perfection that until now has led the Earth's own process of creation to the glorious perfection that surpasses all understanding, which it constitutes wherever this process of creation is complete, and wherever it manifests itself as irrefutable universal love. This process of creation constitutes the utmost consideration for the absolute well-being of all living beings, indeed, in its completed structure or plan no contrary intention in any form whatsoever can possibly occur. Where the principles, methods and structure of this plan seem to be contrary, and seem to be anything but loving, it is only where the structure of the plan has not been carried to its conclusion, and the creation in question is incomplete. If we observe life's or Nature's own method of creation, we can see, whenever things have been brought to completion, that they express the very highest perfection. But the very highest perfection must of course be the very highest ideal of life itself and thereby of the living beings. What other ideal could be greater? If any human being, any wise man or world redeemer could prove any ideal or any form of perfection to be greater, they must of course be more perfect than the Godhead Himself, who, with His method of creation, has created the senses by means of which these beings were able to perceive and apprehend life and existence. But a providence or a godhead who creates more perfect or higher senses in "Adam" and "Eve", that is, in the living beings, than in Himself is no "providence" or "godhead" but a "figment of the imagination". He is an imaginary notion based on "muddled thinking". For how could a godhead or a providence provide a being with something this providence itself did not possess? Providence cannot possibly provide other beings with abilities and gifts that it itself neither possesses nor knows anything about. The living beings' methods of creation and appearance cannot possibly be perceived as more perfect than the art of creation of Providence or the Godhead, that is to say, of Nature itself. God's method of creation is thus living and visible for us in the phenomena of daily life itself, indeed, in the very creation of our own mental genesis, in the evolution of our own thinking from primitivity to genius.