Martinus: Livets Bog, vol. 5, sect. 1728

1728. We have in the world redeemer a human being that is ahead of terrestrial mankind's other individuals in evolution. This more evolved state of his was thus established as fact by his ability to love, whose capacity was such that it has to be expressed as the very culmination of sympathetic manifestation, the very culmination of what can be manifested in the way of goodwill to every fellow being. But it was not merely a blind feeling of sympathy without any kind of intellectual basis. This completely overwhelming whole-sex feeling, this feeling for the universe, for the whole and for the single individual, was based also on a wakingly day-conscious, living understanding. This understanding was based scientifically on Nature itself, on the speech of life itself. For this reason the world redeemer's words, his great answers, are immortal sentences that improve on closer acquaintance and become increasingly irrefutable as mankind's intellectuality grows. Indeed, are they not today, when the world is still living in the midst of wars and temporary ceasefires, simply becoming one hundred per cent relevant? How is the world to get out of this mental crisis and its resultant effects – war, mutilation, torture, hunger, destitution, imprisonment, godlessness and amorality – in any other way than through these answers, which emanated as enormous waves of light from the world redeemer's mouth and behaviour? Is not all mankind hungering for real peace? Is peace, that is to say, mutual understanding, goodwill and forgiveness between the beings, not exactly what the world is lacking? Is not this lack the cause of the misfortune, wars, sufferings and misery of all of mankind?