Martinus: Livets Bog, vol. 4, sect. 1415

1415. We have now come so far in our research into eternal life that we have seen that "universal love" is fundamental to existence. We have seen that a lack of "neighbourly love" is the absolutely only cause of everything that comes under the concept of "evil", misfortune, war, terror, and, indeed, all the gory and deadly manifestations of the "day of judgment". We have seen, furthermore, that the "ladder of evolution", with all its spheres and steps, is similarly a fundamental proof of the "love" with which the Godhead embraces all living beings. We have thus seen how the universe is nothing but a revelation of "love", and that all existing manifestations exist only in order to constitute the chords, harmonies, sounds and notes that can transform the total experience of life into the absolutely highest happiness and bliss for every living being. Having thus seen that the systematic transformation of matter through epochs lasting millions of years has led to the Earth being ready for higher intellectual life, where the conditions or possibilities for the manifestation of the "kingdom of heaven" are now present in abundance, and having seen that the only obstacle to the complete revelation of this kingdom on Earth is solely terrestrial human beings themselves, these millions-of-years-long epochs of evolution and processes of creation thus shine unfailingly for all time as "universal love". Does not the Earth have a wonderful atmosphere and temperate zones with radiant sunshine and pleasant warmth and the most noble fruits and most delicious foods? Is it not in itself an all-outshining paradise with summer breezes, beautiful scents, colours, flower-bedecked, dark forests, snow-clad mountains, oases, deserts, steppes, prairies, pampas, tundras, white polar regions, foaming surf, sky-coloured oceans, midnight sun, polar nights and winter darkness, all lit up, warmed and given life by the sun's gold, purple and sapphire displays in the golden skies of morning and evening on beautiful days? Thus the outer physical scenery, ornaments and stage sets for the "kingdom of heaven" on Earth are finished. Are there not brilliant opportunities and inexhaustible sources of inspiration for intellectuality, for artists, authors, poets, researchers, technicians and all other representatives of intellectual human ability? Can one imagine a greater love than that which, through millions-of-years-long epochs of evolution, has turned liquid masses of fire into such an eldorado for intellectuality clothed in flesh and blood? In truth, where do we find any "lack of love" in this all-outshining panorama?