Martinus: Livets Bog, vol. 4, sect. 1406

1406. The fact that some brilliant genius has emerged and brought about some enormously important factor for the culture and evolution of mankind is, according to this, due exclusively to "chance". The event is merely a puff of wind in the forest, a leaf falling to the earth during autumn storms, a raindrop falling during a thundery shower. Indeed, where is there anything in Nature that is not a matter of "chance"? But imagine how much energy would be wasted if "that" which experiences, if "that" which is life, were merely a product of "chance", that is to say a reaction of materials being carelessly thrown together. When one takes into account what a multitude of substances and forms of energy that Nature or the ocean of matter represents, and the fact that, in order for a living being to be able to appear, a specific, subtle and precise constellation of a specific series of these substances or kinds of matter is demanded out of these millions upon millions of substances, it must be more difficult for the living being to come into existence than it is for a human being to win a prize in a lottery that has millions of blanks for every single prize. What is this small percentage of blanks used in an ordinary lottery when compared with the "millions" of blanks that "nature" would have to draw in order for a living being to be able to emerge? What exceptional "luck" Nature must have since, in such a difficult lottery where the percentage of blanks is so high, it can nonetheless draw prizes (living beings) by the million. There appears to be no lack of living beings.