Martinus: Livets Bog, vol. 5, sect. 1854

1854. This antipathy that primitive, masculine human beings feel towards a being that deviates sexually from the flock is thus a tendency still occurring within them that they have inherited from the animal kingdom. This tendency is to be regarded as just as abnormal or wrong for those concerned as the feminine man's exaggerated femininity is. But the masculine man will find it easier to get the flock to agree with him than the feminine man, since his fundamental character and antipathy are more in agreement with the nature of the flock than the character of the latter man is, even if the latter man does not of course represent the majority of the flock. In this situation the antipathy towards the being that deviates sexually is no longer vented through downright coarse, criminal tendencies. It has shifted more in the direction of a tendency to slander and gossip. For such beings there is surely hardly any greater pleasure than spreading in all directions knowledge and rumours about the tendencies of a being that deviates from the flock. But this offshoot of a primordial tendency is not very easy to get rid of. It can persist even among the very ranks of the incipient double-poled beings or the beings that deviate sexually. Many of these beings that deviate from the sexuality of the flock are, in certain cases, even worse at slandering and exposing these beings from their own ranks than outsiders. This is to some extent due to the inferiority complex that they have acquired through their divergence from the sexual nature of the flock. They, as it were, raise themselves up in the eyes of the flock to thereby divert its attention from, or suspicion of, their own hidden sexual nature by exposing to gossip the sexual secret of fellow beings of the same status, a status that they are of course particularly well qualified to be able to discover or track down. This tendency of theirs to expose to gossip their knowledge or presumed knowledge about the sexual nature of their fellow beings of the same standing as themselves is thus actually not so much out of pure evil as it is out of a kind of drive for self-preservation. They see in their way of being a kind of salvation for themselves. With the sensational information and hints about other beings whose nature deviates from that of the flock, they create for outsiders a smoke screen of gossip behind which they hide their own life, which deviates from the nature of the flock. By doing so they therefore try to maintain their own position as "normal" beings in the estimation and view of the flock. But the very advanced human being and the initiate know very well that these overt broadcasters of knowledge and conjecture about any deviation of other beings' innermost, intimate nature from the normality officially recognised by the flock are not themselves sexually innocent. Here Christ's words about he who is without sin being able to cast the first stone are particularly applicable.