Martinus: Livets Bog, vol. 4, sect. 1380

1380. The importance that all warring parties, whether they be single individuals or nations that are at war, attach to having their acts of anger or indignation proclaimed or expressed as "defence" makes it only all too clear that war and the tendency to murder can no longer reap the halo of honour as mere pleasure and sport that they did with previous generations of terrestrial mankind, where murdering and killing were simply the prerequisite for winning the favour of the gods and gaining access to Valhalla, the kingdom of heaven of that time. But since all battles today must definitely constitute "defence" in order to be accepted as "just", "holy" and "honourable", and since the race for the manifestation or creation of increasingly sophisticated, murderous weapons or military equipment is proclaimed necessary solely for the creation of "peace", we see that in the name of "peace" even the very worst operations of war or dark actions are permissible, indeed, even "honourable", and can be rewarded with orders, titles and rank. But what it is that at the same time constitutes people's true "hunger" or real mental longing, in the depths of their consciousness, is thereby made evident. "Peace" is thus the great mental light that is sought after by all the leading peoples and nations of the world. "Peace" is the mental sun in whose light all terrestrial human beings basically wish and hope to come to rest and recuperate.