Martinus: Livets Bog, vol. 5, sect. 1714

1714. Thus one sees from the above that the Christian world religion is a religion of "man" and "woman". It is a religion that still protects the right of ownership. In the structure of man and woman or of the male being and the female being the right of ownership is, as will be remembered, the very core of their foundation of life. It must, however, be said here that this does not stem from its source, the world redeemer Jesus Christ, for his way of being and guidance rested solely on the ideal: "Thou shalt love thy God above all things and thy neighbour as thyself". He explained that this was the "fulfilment of all the laws". He himself sacrificed his life for the birth of this ideal. Clearly his happiness lay not in possessing or having the right to own another being. He was independent of gender and could therefore not be dictated by the male sex or the female sex. For the same reason he could not become or be biased towards male beings or female beings. The impure tendencies of bias could not corrupt his view of life and way of being. The highest fire in him did not demand that he become one with a being of the opposite sex. It demanded, on the contrary, that he be one with all living beings, a demand that can be met in one way only, namely by giving oneself to these beings. Giving oneself to these beings is the same as living solely in order to bring joy and blessing to all living things in the world. But such a wish cannot possibly develop and be fulfilled completely in a structure of consciousness that at the same time contains within itself the desire to possess a being of the opposite sex and the resulting secondary wishes for advantages and material goods with which such a desired being can be attracted, won and owned. The vitally necessary bias towards this being and these goods is a complete contrast to the real neighbourly love that animated the world redeemer. This contrast will inevitably be a perpetual source or cause of war between the being in question and its rival fellow beings of its own sex, who are also trying to win the opposite sex and have within them the desire to own (the tendency to fall in love with) this sex as its most important fountain of life.