Martinus: Livets Bog, vol. 5, sect. 1870

1870. How do these derailed beings return to normality, to the Godhead, to love? Indeed, how does the prodigal son return to the Father? When a pitcher is full of water, it cannot be filled up any higher because the water would run over. The same law has the effect that the trees do not grow to the sky. When a human being has transformed its psyche so as to feel that torture, carnage and killing are the greatest pleasure, whether it itself is the object of the sadism or it makes others victims of it, it has arrived at the very limit of the unfoldment of the killing principle; it has arrived at hell itself, at the very culmination of darkness. Beyond this culmination, only the zone of love can exist, just as the killing principle or the zone of darkness can exist only beyond the zone of love. Within the domain of the cycle only two great culminations exist, namely the culmination of darkness and the culmination of light, and the transitional zones between them. After having become accustomed to such a horrendous way of experiencing life as that of the sadist, it is not very easy to break the habit of it. But the horror and loathing the being's sick or derailed nature gradually instils in its surroundings, and the terrible karma that this in turn causes, will indeed give rise to depression and in the worst case suicide, quite apart from the mental disablement or mental defect that it will experience in subsequent lives. This entire culmination of suffering and spiritual darkness cannot but gradually make the all-surviving I in the being scream and cry out to return to a normal zest for life. And through this increasing desire for a normal existence, the being's mental or spiritual course will inevitably be changed. And from the sufferings or purgatory of hell and sadism, the prodigal son now returns once more to his Father, to life, to true happiness and joy, and can from here continue his path onwards and forwards in the vast trajectory of the spiral cycle.