Martinus: Livets Bog, vol. 4, sect. 1455

1455. When the stream was still a tiny rivulet, and the sexual desire in the being was no stronger than could easily keep aflame the feeling of being in love with the same sexual partner for an entire terrestrial lifetime, there was of course no sexual surplus that could give rise to a desire for a new sexual partner. The parties had thus ample satisfaction for their entire lifetime in their mutual possession of one another. And there was then actually nothing to dam up. The general rule was therefore that marriages lasted a whole lifetime and were perfect and happy throughout; indeed, they could even continue being very strong through new, later terrestrial lives in which "marital love" finally ended up being "brotherly and sisterly love", which in turn gave rise to the partners then being born as "brother and sister". When an engagement was really broken off, the jilted party in many cases became a little "strange" or "eccentric" for the rest of his or her terrestrial life. The image of the lost partner was so solid and strong in the being's consciousness, and the imaginative force of the being so weak that the being could neither neutralise nor wipe out the image of the lost partner, and thereby gain strength and feel attracted to a new partner. And if it finally succeeded, the new partner would usually be a mere shadow of the previous partner, with whom it had to such an extent been "one flesh" that the separation in effect meant simply life-long, sexual disablement.