Livets Bog, vol. 5
The highest religious stage on Earth
1889. With regard to the religious side of life, its highest stage on Earth is only that of instinct or belief, which is based only on answers that are preached without the beginnings of any logical explanation and analysis that would be acceptable to the intellect or reason. These answers are thus merely dogmas, the explanation of which is left more or less to one's imagination. This has then in turn resulted in or given rise to all the various more or less fantastic, specific views of these religious dogmas, which, instead of gathering and uniting the people, have divided them into sects and societies that culminate in mutual intolerance or mutual persecution. Each of them insists, to be specific, that their particular view is the absolutely only true one, and that the views of the others are false and lead to damnation. This in turn then results in Armageddon, hell or the war of everyone against everyone else, also here in the religious spheres, possessing beings and societies in precisely the same way as the material nations or states are possessed by egoistic self-worship at the expense of the health and normal well-being of other countries.