Martinus: Livets Bog, vol. 4, sect. 1445

1445. And it is precisely this state that terrestrial mankind is experiencing. From a cosmic point of view, it is travelling through the "kingdom of death". Terrestrial human beings are all more or less "dead" beings, who have a small, elementary area of the energy, force or seeds of the "zone of life" within them, just enough for them to be able to feel "alive" in the present and in what they can remember of their present terrestrial life, while their entire fundamental existence outside this area, which thus means, all their previous terrestrial lives with their physical and mental experiences gathered over thousands, indeed, millions of years during their passage through the spiral cycle is totally beyond the horizon of their awake day-consciousness. So for the moment that part of their life and mentality is an unconscious or "dead" area. Their "cosmic consciousness" or absolute knowledge of their eternal existence is thus, in the materialistically minded terrestrial human being, merely a "corpse" that has long since decomposed, a "corpse" that it has no recollection of. It is therefore forgivable that it denies its entire immense past and acknowledges only the relatively tiny, microscopic, "ephemeral existence" that it today experiences in the present and the few memories it has from the decades immediately before this present. It is naturally just as much a matter of course that it also denies the life in the stars and the suns, not to mention its denial of the myriads of dark or invisible globes or planets that, with their mankinds and mental and physical kingdoms, continents and seas, move around the suns, and onward through cities of stars, but considers itself or the terrestrial human being to be the very highest form of life in the universe.