If "death" were a real end to the living being's existence
1389. Here it may be argued that it is, however, a fact that millions upon millions of people have died without having received an answer to the great questions. For them their lives were but one, single, great, unanswered question. But this does not of course prove that the deaths of these beings were a real end to their lives, but that their lives were very far from finished. And has one ever seen Nature leave its plans or intentions unfinished? It is true that we see organisms perish, and leaves and flowers wither in the autumn, but is it not an equally great fact that new organisms, new life and new flowers emerge over and over again, and continue the plan of evolution where the old left off? Here some may object that the lives that have emerged are new beings, and that the dead beings are thus still dead. But is there anything to prove this assertion? No, absolutely not. On the contrary, is it not a fact that evolution continuously beautifies, ennobles and improves the living being? Can the brain and mental faculties of the prehistoric human being compare with the mental structure and power of thinking of the present, high-intellectual, civilised human being? Through all the many generations, which thus means "organisms" that have perished since the prehistoric human being existed, Nature has thus allowed a very beautiful and noble plan or purpose to continue through the succeeding "organisms" by making the living being or terrestrial human being more beautiful and more noble, and giving it the ability to manifest a much more elevated intellectual or spiritual life than before. Is it not conceivable that this evolutionary improvement of the being is the fulfilment of a wish and the satisfaction of a desire? But who can be the source of this wish or desire other than the beings that did not possess the noble and higher intellectual or spiritual culture of the high-intellectual being of today? But these beings are of course prehistoric human beings, that is those that died without having their wish granted. Is it not a strange thought that the beings that in the past wished for a more beautiful, nobler existence had to sigh and groan under the hardships of a primitive, harsh and cruel existence, while the sophisticated, high-intellectual being of today possesses extensive goods and the comforts of a humane, intellectual or spiritual culture and the ennoblement of the soul by an intellectual existence without ever having wished for this existence? Would perceiving the above as an expression of the absolute truth not be an abnormal way of thinking? Is it not conceivable that the absolute truth, and thereby the normal way of thinking, must be that it is true that the bodies or organisms perished, but that the something within the organisms that wished or desired a more perfect and more beautiful existence continued to live? Today almost all the people in the world likewise desire a higher and more perfect existence; they all fervently wish for true "peace" in the world, but of what use is this wish if the physical death, which they will all experience before this "peace" becomes a reality, is a real, complete end to their life? If this death is regarded as a real, total end to the life of these beings, and this life thereby dissolves into the great "void", so that they will never more see the light of day, they will never have their wish granted. They will never experience peace. Their terrestrial life or existence will have been merely an experience of a heartfelt longing, a perpetual hunger, a hunger for which no satiation existed. But such an existence constitutes "hell" in its purest form, that is, a form of existence that these beings could never have deserved on account of them never having lived before. But since the evolution of the world shows a continuous improvement in things and an ennoblement or evolutionary change for the better, "peace" too will one day be a reality for coming generations. But since these generations have not lived before either, they cannot have deserved such a life in the light, which "peace" in itself is. These beings are thus born in the middle of the "kingdom of heaven" without having wished it or in any way having deserved it, while previous generations were born in the middle of "hell", likewise without this in any way being their own fault or their own desire.
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