Martinus: Livets Bog, vol. 4, sect. 1375

1375. Indeed, anyone who speaks pessimistically of the divine process of creation reveals his complete ignorance of what it is he sees before him in the form of the universe, Nature and life. In the sphere of cosmic mentality he is but a sleeping being, a plant, a reed that must bend in whichever direction the local wind blows. But local winds do not always blow in the direction of the sun. And it is not summer all year round. The autumn storms break many a proud stem and strip the trees of all their leaves, which have been weakened and withered by the onset of the cold nights. But this is no reason for the plant to die. When spring again makes the wind blow in the direction of the sun, warmth and light, it again unfolds its radiant life, its ocean of colours and scents among the living beings, confirming summer, the culmination of physical life. But does one believe here too that "winter" is an imperfection in the divine world order? Does one believe that it is a completely useless reality, indeed, even an obstacle or a difficulty that the Godhead must positively struggle with? Or has one here become cosmically so well orientated that one sees that winter is not a difficulty for the Godhead in His process of creation, but is a brilliant instrument or means whereby He can create? Without the principle of winter there would be no summer; without darkness there would be no knowledge of light. Without the principle of contrast there would be no possibility of defining limitations; without limitations there would be no sensory perception, and without sensory perception there would be no experience of life, no ensuing creation of consciousness and no formation of mentality. "Darkness" and "light", "summer" and "winter", "evil" and "good" are thus all indispensable means or instruments in the divine process of creation. Without these phenomena there would be no "breathing the breath of life into Adam".