Martinus: Livets Bog, vol. 5, sect. 1839

1839. What does it matter that this microbe masters the elements to a certain extent and makes them work for it, makes them carry it over land and sea, over the clouds and under the water? What does it matter that it can make huge engines churn out useful objects by the million? What does it matter that this microbe works itself almost to death to expand its material knowledge and ability? What does it matter that it studies for years at universities and colleges, and that its years of childhood and youth are given over to education, teachers, instructors, child rearers and other humanitarian and cultural measures in order to give this being real knowledge and ability, when this entire scenery, the pinnacle of materialistic knowledge and ability, the entire domain of this microbe is but a speck of dust under the universe's oppressive tons of chance? If chance is the greatest factor in the universe, and is the builder and destroyer of life, and chance has been able to produce such a wonderful result as the normal organisms of living beings and a natural bodily perfection that suits the purposes they are each intended to fulfil, to what end the laborious training and studying or the acquisition of the modicum of intellect or sense of logic that each of us must possess if we are to be accepted as normal beings? The greater the intellect one acquires, the more one is the antithesis of the universe's leading and creative factor. Those who are professors and doctors of materialistic science today and who swear only by this science and perceive everything outside their own form of life or states of consciousness and those of known fellow beings as mere chance are, indeed, the most outstanding antithesis of that factor in the universe that they themselves perceive to be the highest creative and destructive one, namely chance. In their own actions and creative processes and in the exercise of their will they do not allow chance to flourish in this way. Here they are fully aware that doing so would be extremely dangerous. Here they feel that they need knowledge and reason. Here the greatest factor must be logic, planning and purposefulness. Where this factor is neglected, their fate will fall into ruins. Despite the fact that this is the most basic experience within their own experience of life, they claim unyieldingly that chance is the sovereign factor in all manifestations or creative processes that lie outside ordinary human sensory ability or understanding, which thus means, the creative domain of Nature. Here the authorised, materialistic science's philosophy of life, its teaching or assertion that chance is the source of the universe or cosmos, is revealed as superstition. Here it is thus evident as a fact that in the creation of its perception of the world or philosophy of life it acts in glaring contradiction to the scientific laws it otherwise with hair-splitting meticulousness requires to be fulfilled, and it itself fulfils when it is a matter of research within the local fields of matter, and by virtue of which the uppermost representatives of this science have become precisely the authoritative capacities expressed by the titles of doctor and professor. Since these materialistic scientists within local research into the substances of the universe, where their perceptive ability is greatest, cannot avoid seeing that nothing here is without a plan or random but that everything is purposefully bound by law, the same fact must be the only acceptable basis for all further scientific research in the fields that lie outside direct sensory perception and outside the terrestrial human domain. Why not assume that the same purposeful planning must also be the main factor in the vast ocean of processes of creation that lies in the area that is as yet unknown to the senses and is called the universe? When chance does not exist in the microscopic areas of the universe that are accessible to terrestrial human weighing and measuring, why then assume that chance must flourish and be the prevailing factor in precisely the macrocosmic areas and details?