Martinus: Livets Bog, vol. 5, sect. 1685

1685. The "kingdom of bliss" is thus the last kingdom or the last plane of existence in the spiral cycle before the being begins its connection to incarnation in the physical world. The last wakingly day-conscious existence in the outer world that the individual experiences is thus in the divine world or the kingdom of intuition. In the kingdom of bliss it is, as previously mentioned, wakingly day-conscious only in its memories. And from this stage in the cycle it cannot attain any waking day-consciousness in the outer world until it does so through the plant kingdom. Here a tendency towards day-consciousness begins to dawn in the form of the mental state or mental ability that is called "inkling", with which we have already become familiar through previous analyses in "Livets Bog". Here we have thus found the absolute zone of life that lies behind what the Bible terms the "Garden of Eden". We have found the scene of the very beginning of God's creation of the "human being in his image". When all memories appear here as "gold copies" and are experienced as divine love or as the manifestation of life through which it becomes evident that "everything is very good", the image of the lamb and the tiger sleeping softly beside one another becomes a splendid symbol of the superterrestrial harmony that unfailingly prevails here.