Martinus: Livets Bog, vol. 3, sect. 854

854. Adam and Eve have therefore grown. God's modelling of the human being in them has already come a long way. We can already begin to glimpse in a great many ways God's shining image within them. With the aforementioned spring awakening, a kingdom which is not of this world is beginning to cast its dawning summer sunlight into the souls. The "dejected" Adam and Eve are no longer looking backwards, but forwards. The prodigal son is beginning to search the horizons for his eternal Father. A great cry of "Where are you?" is more than ever before reverberating throughout the world. Is it not this burning question that has led human beings to the farthest regions of the planet, into the hottest, equatorial zones and out to the white, icy wastes of the poles, laboriously working their way forward by land, sea and air, on foot, on horseback and by camel, over vast stretches of tundra, deserts, steppes and prairies, through jungles and over mountains and precipices, in the midnight sun and the winter darkness, always on the lookout, always expectant, always pleading? Is it not the cry, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?", that like a delicate descant is drowned out by the bass chords of the thunderous cannon fire and the earth-shattering bombers? Indeed, the promise that "the wages of sin is death" is in the process of being fulfilled. The world is groaning with weeping and gnashing of teeth. But with this the power of darkness is also depleted. Once terrestrial human beings have left all murder behind them, and the last choking clouds of smoke from the battlefields have cleared from the horizon, and the death rattles of the wounded have ceased, a new Eden, the "new heaven" and the "new earth", or the kingdom of heaven, will be very close. When the final vestiges of the atmosphere of war or the killing principle have faded away, Adam and Eve will once again stand before the countenance of the Almighty. After their long journey through the world, through space and through time and through darkness, they will each, like the prodigal son, find their eternal Father, not in this place or that, but in their own hearts. Adam and Eve, or the prodigal son, have never been separated from God, and God has never been separated from his son. The prodigal son has only been blinded by the atmosphere of the killing principle's battlefields within himself. But it is now accomplished. The atmosphere of love has made the consciousness crystal clear. The son of God has become one with the Father, the universe is love, and life is dazzling light.