Martinus: Livets Bog, vol. 4, sect. 1510

1510. But it is not merely within the administration of state that dictatorship holds the beings down in stagnation, or mentally or intellectually at a standstill. Do we not trace the clammy hand of dictatorship within the sphere of practised religion or within the domain of the religions and the churches? Have not individuals or personalities with new kinds of thoughts also been tortured, burned or in some other way executed, regardless of how high-intellectual they may have been or how much they promoted neighbourly love? Indeed, these thoughts and the authors of these thoughts were not even scrutinised or investigated. The mere fact that they were not dictated by or did not originate from the dictatorial authorities, the popes, the priests, the prophets or the authorised and approved "holy books", was more than sufficient to lead these beings to the stake or to the torture chambers. And are we not able to follow the stagnating principle of dictatorship even further through the modern associations, political parties and unions? Is there not a sometimes very fervent dictatorial spirit here too? Here any overly conspicuous deviations from the drawn-up ideals or laws are not tolerated, regardless of the degree to which they may represent a higher intellectuality than that which is dictated.