Martinus: Livets Bog, vol. 4, sect. 1530

1530. Through this work of ours or the above-mentioned cosmic analyses every advanced reader will be able to see that the road to real happiness or true joy in living, the road to the "kingdom of heaven" leads solely through breaking the habit of the "anti-humanistic" part of the consciousness and developing the "humanistic" or "humane" part of the consciousness in his own nature.
Just imagine what a revelation of beauty and joy in living awaits the beings when they gain an understanding of the "humanistic" aspect of their own consciousness, and, through this understanding, turn it into a habitual consciousness or an inevitable part of daily life. Imagine what daily life must be like for these beings. Imagine an existence where one no longer needs to lock one's doors, one no longer needs to have barbed wire fences and hoardings, one no longer needs the police service, prisons or jails, one no longer needs to have the armed forces with their machines of war, apparatuses of death or processes of mutilation, one no longer needs to elbow one's way forward at the expense of one's neighbour, one is no longer exposed to professional rivalry, envy, jealousy and slander, one no longer suffers from unhappy love affairs or is bound to unhappy marriages or other forms of unhappy physical or mental relations, where there would be no nervous breakdowns, no mental illness, no degradation, no oppression or any other of the inconveniences of daily life. Imagine being able to live such a terrestrial human life together cleansed of animal tendencies! Is it not conceivable that it is this form of existence that constitutes the "lasting peace", the "goodwill" that terrestrial human beings were promised in the Christmas gospel? Is it not conceivable that it is this form of experience of life that is the "kingdom of heaven" and thereby constitutes the terrestrial human mental world, redeemed or liberated from the principle of the animal, that is, from the killing way of life.