Martinus: Livets Bog, vol. 4, sect. 1392

1392. How can this phenomenon justify this entire, tremendous process of creation, the casualties, sufferings, mutilations, disabilities, illnesses, oppression, destitution, need and misery of these millions of generations? Indeed, are there not beings that have been born in wretched, disease-prone bodies and are thereby doomed to an unnatural life and a far too premature death? Are there not others that have been born to be at odds with the laws of society or civilisation and have never been able to manage to be anything other than the "black sheep" of the rest of mankind? Are there not also beings all over the world that never have and never will experience a really normal life, an absolute normal well-being of body and soul, while there are others that, in their present terrestrial life, know almost nothing of what it means to be poor, to be sick and to suffer, to belong to the "lower social classes" of society, and that, moreover, in the whole of this incarnation will revel in good health, well-being and the admiration, worship and adoration of other people? How can it be justified that the above-mentioned abstract phenomenon or "ladder of evolution" can be so important and so supreme that the living beings can without consideration be born to a single terrestrial life in order to constitute some "piece of a mosaic", a detail contributing to the overall design? Some beings are killed in the bloom and most beautiful springtime of their early youth, just when they are on the point of experiencing the sweetness of life. Others die even in their mother's womb. Still others are almost unable to die, but experience almost a generation in a period of old age with calcified brains and weakened senses, for which reason their previously so gushing mental faculties have shrunk to constitute merely a tiny, almost dried-up streamlet in the desert? Is it really conceivable that these fates, all these bloody experiences exist only in order to be scenes in a creation that can be experienced as nothing but a theoretical or abstract phenomenon? Who would enjoy this phenomenon, this creation? The living beings are of course all dead with the exception of those that today with their life and blood constitute the present steps in this structure. But they too of course must soon die in order to make room for new beings that likewise will express with their lives and blood new steps in this huge formation. Is it not conceivable that there is something wrong with the materialistic, terrestrial human perception of life and existence itself? The manipulation of matter and substances by world epochs lasting millions of years and their juggling with the living beings cannot have been in order to create merely an abstract phenomenon, of which merely each of the above-mentioned beings can experience a single, tiny detail, since they must die without ever really and practically having experienced this enormous creation of the godhead.