Martinus: Livets Bog, vol. 4, sect. 1571

1571. In order that terrestrial mankind can be enveloped in the "kingdom of heaven" on the Earth's physical plane, "neighbourly love" must become an innate, organic function in its beings, independent of their will, in exactly the same way as their sympathy for the "opposite sex" and antipathy towards their "own sex" is an organic function. And this organic functioning of "neighbourly love" must then release in the individual the desire to experience "paradise" with any fellow being whatsoever. This fellow being must thus constitute a "sex" that can satisfy this desire. But such a "sex" cannot possibly be "male" or "female", for then the law of neighbourly love that demands that one love one's "neighbour", which means everybody, could not be complied with. But a "sex" that is neither "male" nor "female" can constitute only the previously mentioned sex or being in which both the sexual poles, the "masculine" and the "feminine", have become equal. If this double-poled state in the being is to be described as a "sex", it can be expressed only as a "common sex". But since the sexual principle or "highest fire", through the principle of the cycle, gradually transforms all terrestrial human beings into "one sex", it thereby removes the root of the "desire to possess" from the mentality of the being. If the "opposite sex" no longer exists, it cannot give rise to rivalry with regard to possessing beings of this sex. But since all other forms of "desire for ownership" or "urge to possess" are in fact but branches or offshoots of the sexual desire for the "opposite sex", they will completely cease to exist when the "new sex" becomes perfect. Through the transformation of the organic, sexual structure, the entire foundation of the animal beings' rivalry with regard to their fellow beings and the good things of life withers or crumbles away. It will therefore have become impossible for any wars to arise between states or individuals.

Symbol no. 12

Life and Death