The Eternal World Picture, vol. 2
19.7  Darkness as a link in the initiation by means of which God creates the human being in his image after his likeness
It has become the task of world redemption to remove the deadly erroneous belief and ignorance of darkness mentioned above, so that darkness will no longer continue to be a mystery but will, on the contrary, be known as a divine link in the great initiation into God's consciousness that all people on the earth will experience. Without this link God's creation of the human being in his image would be a total impossibility. This, God's creation of his monumental work, comes about exclusively by him letting his son, the eternal living being, experience the total contrast to his own all-outshining consciousness and way of being, in order thereby to turn him into a genius where knowledge of what really is evil and what really is good is concerned. It is through God's creation of this quality of genius in the being that it becomes the human being in God's image after his likeness, and that makes the son of God one with his father and lets him culminate in light, joy and bliss. Can love be greater than this?
Symbol by Martinus
Symbol no. 19
Through the Darkness of Initiation (Hell or Armageddon)