Martinus: Livets Bog, vol. 5, sect. 1712

1712. Whenever the whole of this absolutely divine story of initiation in the Bible and in other religious traditions takes the form of a story about a Fall and about God's punishment for it, and people call the world redeemer the Evil One or the devil, it is because the traditions did not come into existence until very late on, indeed, so late that the desire of man and woman for darkness had long since been satiated. Having to go on experiencing events and things that one has long since been satiated with ultimately leads to these events and things being experienced as something loathful, while everything that can form even the slightest contrast to this repulsion will be regarded as light, inspiration and joy in living or paradise itself. Prophets and leaders who are the source of the religious traditions about the origin of man have thus to an overwhelming degree been satiated with darkness, but had no cosmic insight into life's most profound structure and could therefore see darkness only as the experience of something loathful, evil or diabolical. They could see people only as "sinners" who had to displease the Godhead, who was then compelled to punish these ungodly individuals who were possessed by the devil. There had of course to be a sizable place of punishment, a hell, where accounts could be settled with these hordes of criminals. One was so hungry for light and love, and so satiated to a point of loathing with the animal form of life that one was unable to see any good in it whatsoever. That these beings and leaders of mankind were biased towards light, and favoured it in every possible way, while disparaging and failing to appreciate darkness, was naturally a matter of course.