Martinus: Livets Bog, vol. 5, sect. 1810

Why let out-dated traditions based on the opinions of the flock, naivety and superstition obstruct the way to an honest study of the sympathetic faculties or the true principle of neighbourly love, without which an absolute world peace cannot possibly be created?

1810. But if the deepest roots of all terrestrial human misery happen to lie in the sympathetic faculties, why then not be open and honest about everything of importance that can help one see these faculties in a scientific light? Why allow oneself to be led by current opinions of the flock and dogmatic traditions based on ignorance and superstition? Why allow an unintellectual or animal feeling to block one's intelligence, the faculty through which the problem can easily be observed and become a reality? Thousands of people the world over have, indeed, a faculty of intelligence that far surpasses the capacity needed or required in order to see what a radiant, appropriate significance the sexual structure or the sympathetic faculties are intended to have for mankind. Indeed, one can even say that the lasting peace desired by all terrestrial human beings can never become an absolute reality as long as the beings are superstitious and deluded about the evolution of the faculties or the organic function that is the foundation of the sympathy or neighbourly love that is essential to the existence of a real, absolute world peace.