Livets Bog, vol. 5
Beings of the masculine sex are designed to be deadly enemies
1593. A "masculine" being cannot therefore attain happiness without making an effort; it must fight these beings and things in order to safeguard its own normal happiness and joy in living. But since it lives alongside a multitude of beings of its own sex for whom conquering a "feminine" being is also a vital necessity, these beings of its own sex become annoying rivals for the "feminine" being. "Masculine" beings must therefore keep such annoying rivals away from the conquest he himself has made among the "feminine" sex, because they would otherwise lose this conquest and thereby the normal enjoyment of life or joy in living that this conquest would maintain. In accordance with their organic structure or sexual orientation, one hundred per cent "masculine" beings are consequently designed by Nature to be "deadly enemies". The demands life makes on these beings are expressed in the saying: "everyone for themselves". And the law of existence here becomes "the right of the strongest", whether it be in cunning or in sheer physical strength or bodily superiority. For these beings life means war, war and yet more war. Their sphere of consciousness comprises only sexual gratification and the war or struggle that this gratification necessitates.