Martinus: Livets Bog, vol. 4, sect. 1371

1371. "War" is thus mankind's most terrible enemy, for it cannot be combated using modern technical or chemical weapons. The more sophisticated and destructive these weapons become, the more murders, killings and mutilations "war" can carry out. But it is not "war" that bleeds or dies, but the flesh-and-blood organisms of human beings. And the I's behind these organisms must then again build up new organisms, which can be mowed down on an even larger scale because of the advances in the sophistication of weaponry that they have been able to invent and produce on the physical plane in the intervening time, and so on. And would it be any different if people were to invent even better weapons, "atom bombs" or means whereby entire cities could be wiped out at a time at one blow. Indeed, even if people really became capable of destroying entire states or nations, or even entire continents, could war be abolished by such means? Would it not cause the total capitulation of mankind to the energies of war or the killing principle? Do not all the sophisticated improvements of the tools of war that multiply their capacity for killing form a colossal foundation for the development of war and its continued existence? A thing that is improved and perfected with new refinements that favour its existence is not degenerating or dying, but is rapidly on its way to blossoming or reaching its peak. Terrestrial mankind has thus not yet conquered war. And as long as it improves the existence of war with new ingenious murder weapons, it is its totally subordinate, obedient servant or slave.