Martinus: Livets Bog, vol. 5, sect. 1764

1764. When such mental tendencies occur in a human being, tendencies that tend towards greater mutual sympathy between beings and a longing for equal rights for everyone, a longing for justice, we have here mental faculties that have absolutely nothing to do with the one-poled sexual state of the two sexes. It is not a love of mating or an urge to protect one's offspring that plays a role here. Imagining that these faculties are due merely to a more developed intelligence is the very culmination of superstition. It is an all-pervading fact that, from a mental point of view, the purely intelligent being is a very cold, egoistic being that uses its intelligence in every possible way as a means through which it seeks to find out how it can best exploit others to its own advantage or live at the expense of others. If the intelligent being does not do so, it proves straight away that there are faculties in its psyche that oppose this use of the intelligence. These faculties can be only the previously mentioned beginnings of the new sympathetic faculties. Intelligence in itself is only a neutral faculty that can be used just as well in the service of selfishness as of unselfishness, all according to whether its originator is selfish or unselfish. However we look at the problems, we cannot get around the fact that new mental characteristics are beginning to develop in the human beings, characteristics that increasingly make the individual feel a corresponding growing sympathy for its fellow beings. This growing sympathy absolutely cannot be due to the one-poled sexual state, since this state collides with any sympathy that lies outside the mating state and the phenomena connected with it. That two kinds of sympathetic faculties thereby occur in the terrestrial human being has long since been established as a well known fact, even if one is, so to speak, quite ignorant of the particular nature and legitimacy of the new faculties. Of these two sets of sympathetic faculties, the one set constitutes solely the one-poled sexuality or the purely animal male and female mating urge that promotes procreation and the survival of the species on the basis of the drive for self-preservation, while the other set triggers the sympathy that manifests itself as absolute or real love, which in turn means complete unselfishness or the desire to "suffer rather than have others suffer", the sympathy that decides or is the regulator of what "evil" one can "have the heart" to do towards our fellow beings or our neighbour, the ability that also lies at the root of the capacity of our ability to feel compassion. The purely animal being, the tiger or beast of prey that is not affected by being in the company of human beings knows nothing of compassion for its victim. We also see that the same is the case with the coarse, masculine "real man" and the corresponding female being. In them no developed sympathetic faculties or mental characteristics exist except the talent and characteristics connected with the process of procreation. This further confirms that, if we are to be able to solve the riddle of the terrestrial human being's future, we must dwell on the beginnings of the seeds of these outstanding new sympathetic faculties in the terrestrial human being and thoroughly study their origin and mission. Only through this study does the way in which the perfect human being differs from the animal reveal itself. Only through knowledge of the structure and effects of these faculties will "the human being in God's image", which is the ultimate goal for the terrestrial human being, become a reality or fact.