Martinus: Livets Bog, vol. 4, sect. 1570

The "kingdom of heaven" or real peace among people cannot be based on an organic structure that determines that the originator of this kingdom of peace can love only a certain section of the Earth's human population, and that of those beings in this section (the opposite sex) it may love only one

1570. Thus we understand that "lasting peace" cannot be based on an organic structure that determines that the originator of this peace can love only the "opposite sex" or a section of the Earth's inhabitants, and is therefore born more or less to hate or feel mental antipathy towards its "own sex" or the other section of mankind. Equally, real peace cannot become a one-hundred-per-cent reality in a world where "hell" can be kept at bay only by rationing love, so that "paradise" can be experienced with only one single being. Is it not essential to the creation of the real "kingdom of heaven" or absolute "lasting peace" that beings become able to experience "paradise" with not merely one single being among all the human beings of the Earth, and not merely with that part that consists of the beings of the "opposite sex" either, but with absolutely all its human beings? Loving one's neighbour as oneself is not merely a formality based on good manners or politeness. Heartfelt love is really what is demanded. But heartfelt love can be nothing other than an organic manifestation. The difference between organic love and "good manners" or "politeness" is that love is an organic manifestation, just like the functioning of the lungs and heart, something that is outside the will of the individual, while "good manners" is a function of intelligence determined by the will.

Symbol no. 12

Life and Death