Martinus: Livets Bog, vol. 5, sect. 1683

1683. The biblical Eden is thus a term for a preterrestrial existence. It is a form of life that precedes the emergence of physical life here on the terrestrial physical plane. And since we are already familiar with the six planes of existence of the spiral cycle, it is not difficult to ascertain that the biblical Eden, Adam's first sphere of existence, is the kingdom or plane of existence we know as the "kingdom of bliss". It is thus the sixth zone or sphere of the spiral cycle. We also know that this sphere is based on the sixth basic energy: the "energy of memory". The details of the kingdom of bliss consist exclusively of the being's memories transformed into "gold copies". This kingdom is thus absolutely the individual's own inner world. As we know from previous analyses of this subject here in "Livets Bog", this world is populated solely by the memories of the beings and things that the individual concerned has encountered and known in the outer world. Here it has no dealings or communication with the real living beings that the memories express. Daily experience in the kingdom of bliss is thus not an experience of new beings and things, such as is the case in the five other planes of existence in the cycle. Here in the kingdom of bliss no experience can take place that is not a re-experiencing of an event already experienced by the being in the outer physical and spiritual world. Here in the kingdom of bliss only the time that is connected to the being's memories will therefore exist, that is to say, the years or units of time during which the lives were experienced in the outer world, which it now re-experiences as memory.