Livets Bog, vol. 4
The terrestrial human being has become a mystery to the uninitiated
1501. What then is going on in the terrestrial human beings who have grown away from the religions? Has it not been established here as fact that they differ from the animals? The animals are satisfied with their existence. They live their life in harmony with the laws of their life. They satisfy their urge to mate and are happy to do so. The animals know nothing of the entire sphere of disharmony and the unnatural ways of living that hold sway among terrestrial human beings. As terrestrial human beings live such a terribly blood-bespattered life caused by a thousandfold increase in their ability to murder and kill and a simultaneous rapidly increasing ability to regret, repent or grieve over the carnage or their own unhappy lives, and as their urge to mate has become quite diffuse and different from the animal's correct and healthy fulfilment of the laws of this urge, indeed, has almost entirely disintegrated in many beings, it becomes obvious that the terrestrial human being in itself is a mystery to the uninitiated.