Martinus: Livets Bog, vol. 4, sect. 1458

1458. But does compliance with this commandment really leave anything to be desired? Has not this commandment been sufficiently complied with for the time being? Is not the Earth populated by a sufficient number of individuals in proportion to the social conditions and the guaranteed protection of life and wellbeing that the level of perception and awareness of the flock or the collected terrestrial mankind of today can give or bestow on every individual that is born? Must not thousands of beings die of hunger every year? Must not millions be killed in wars and be conscripted by the military? And are not millions of beings destitute because of unemployment? And must not further thousands only just keep body and soul together as beggars, swindlers, thieves or robbers because of this unemployment, even though there can of course be other contributory causes of this? Do not people queue at shops and stalls in order to meet their need for food, clothing and other necessities of daily life? And are there not thousands of beings who cannot find a flat, shelter, a hotel room or the like, but roam the highways and byways, having to steal in order to find shelter from the wind and the weather in sheds, warehouses, empty railway carriages, boiler rooms, indeed, for these beings even sewers can sometimes be a coveted temporary residence for the night. Is there any hospital that is empty and ready to receive beings other than those mortally wounded who have just been gathered up from the street, or others who are at home or at their place of work and are similarly in need of immediate help? Must not other sick people sometimes wait for months to be admitted to hospital? As long as all sorts of terrestrial human beings have to stand in long queues in order to make a connection or contact with the necessities of life, these beings' use of contraception does not seem to have caused society any misfortune. So reproduction does not seem to be terrestrial mankind's weak point. On the contrary, despite the above-mentioned contraceptive efforts, does it not seem as if the flock or society is powerless to do anything about it? The flock or society seems to have neither the morality nor the ability to accept the effects of the satisfaction of their erotic desire. In desperation about this, when the dam erected by religion and morality in the form of marriage proves insufficient, people seek even to kill their embryos, despite the fact that with the aid of large engines people have the ability to make the elements work for them, and despite the fact that the continents and seas of the Earth abound in wealth, foodstuffs and materials or possibilities for life on such a scale that there is sufficient for a mankind with double the number of individuals without them in the least way having to either pay a lot for these, stand in a queue or somehow elbow their way forward out of fear of ending up at the back of the queue and being among those who do not manage to get a share in the necessities of life. None of these phenomena show the terrestrial human being in a flattering light from a marital point of view.