Martinus: Livets Bog, vol. 5, sect. 1666

1666. That terrestrial mankind has lived for thousands of years in accordance with exactly the opposite religious traditions and precepts, and has cultivated the creation of darkness is established as fact by the genius with which terrestrial mankind today can manifest the principle of darkness. Without this thousand-year old, if not million-year-old, tradition, the terrestrial human beings of today would not have gained such an outstanding ability to manifest the principles of darkness as is the case. They could not have created such a detailed "hell", with all its misery and "weeping and gnashing of teeth", as that displayed for us by the terrestrial sphere of war and death. And their access to the epoch of light or spiritual science that this mankind, through the cycle, is now heading for would thereby to a corresponding degree have been cut off.