Martinus: Livets Bog, vol. 4, sect. 1492

1492. Is not terrestrial mankind today sighing and groaning under the effects of the violent Armageddon that is the cause of the piles of ruins among which great sections of terrestrial mankind, along with all kinds of vermin, must starve and freeze? And what was the basis for this Armageddon? Was it not a "uniformalisation" of terrestrial human beings, which they were induced to believe was idealism or the "salvation of the world"? And where are these make-believe "world saviours", "dictators" or apostles of the policy of violence today? Did they themselves not end up with the same fate that they inflicted on so many other people, namely murder and suicide? Not even these, with the most refined murder weapons and means of destruction in the world and with the superiority given to them by several years lead in the arms race, could conquer, force or uniformalise terrestrial mankind and turn it into a herd of uniform beings who were, so to speak, no longer individuals but animal automatons. Wiping out the beings' mental independence with enforced mental uniformity is the same as wiping out their individuality and thereby turning them into animal machines that are worked by the "dictator" or the "uniformist" and his henchmen. Is it conceivable that the meaning of life is that such a beautiful world, which our planet has gradually become over the divine process of creation's huge epochs of time, is intended to end only as the scene of a fanatical dictator's deadly experiments with slaves and murder weapons? Is it conceivable that the evolution of terrestrial mankind's intelligence or ability to think, which has begun, exists merely in order to be brutally stifled so as to turn this mankind into a blind, dead animal machine and automaton to satisfy the sadistic desires or psychopathic whims of a tyrannical despot? What kind of being is it we have before us? Is it not precisely such a being that, more than any other being in existence, must be recognised as the opposite of the Godhead or as belonging under the concept of the "devil", if, indeed, one can use this concept to denote any being?