Martinus: Livets Bog, vol. 3, sect. 645

645. After spring comes summer. And so, after its "solstice" (its fully grown, mature stage) the being enters into the "summer" of its earthly life cycle, which lasts until the cycle's "autumnal equinox", which in the case of the terrestrial human being occurs at the so-called "age of man" (about three score years and ten). During this period the being is in the "summer" of its physical terrestrial life. The mystery of passionate love has now been sparked off. The being bears its flower and glorious colours. For some beings it is their offspring that are the tiny budding shoots and flowers on the physical stem, and the joy of parenthood is their bright mental glow of summer. For other beings it is high-intellectual creation, exceptional knowledge and artistic ability that constitute their earthly life's highest display and glory of summer. But whether it is the "joy of parenthood" or the "joy of creation", what we meet here in the terrestrial life cycle of the human mentality is the scent of a rose, a profusion of flowers in full flush or the waving cornfields in summertime. It is a faint reflection of the sunlit "divine world" that, in the form of the full strength and power of beings in their prime, creates a look of radiant brightness sparkling in the eyes of mature men and women.

Symbol no. 10

The Principle of the Cycle