Martinus: Livets Bog, vol. 5, sect. 1850

1850. Indeed, life has a greater aim for the son of God than his terrestrial, physical gender. The son of God is not meant to continue being able to experience the Godhead or the greatest light only as a gender-based erotic experience, whether it occurs as a legal blessing consecrated by a priest or merely as a pleasure paid for in cash in the same way as one buys a theatre ticket or a holiday trip. The experience of the divine light, the real kingdom of heaven, has a far greater radiance than the spark that can be experienced in the legal or illegal bridal bed or during the satisfaction of erotic hunger that can be bought in a brothel. The kingdom of heaven can come about only where everything is a gift, where ownership of beings and things, and thereby oppression and jealousy, is out of the question. There the human being is in God's image. It is the brewing forces of this goal that today contribute to accelerating the speed of evolution and are thereby a contributory factor in the manifestation of hell or Armageddon; they make marriages degenerate and they create the war of everyone against everyone else in a struggle for the eternal peace that can be neighbourly love alone. Neither the law of Moses nor dogmas are of any help with this. Creating peace here requires such a sophisticated, refined intellectuality and cerebral function that it can be promoted, borne and developed only by a refined, logical interpretation of nothing less than eternity itself, the universe and the Almighty and the answer, "Everything is very good", that results from them. A new world epoch is thus about to emerge, causing the old epoch to degenerate. The fulfilment of the world redeemer's promise of a new heaven and a new Earth is in the process of being manifested. A kingdom that was not of this world when Christ spoke with his physical voice is about to be born and is thus now on its way to being of this world. This kingdom is nothing less than the kingdom of heaven.