10. Martinus Spiritual Science in modern society

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1. I Just love this! It makes so much sense to me. It feels like truth!
2. WHAT IS SCIENCE?
   Science is the documentation of facts on the basis of our senses and their extension by various measuring instruments. Scientific results must be capable of being reproduced and confirmed by measured data drawn from experience or experiment, i.e. by exact quantification. Science is defined on the basis of a specific mode of investigation in which every hypothesis must be empirically verified.
   
   IS MARTINUS’ SPIRITUAL SCIENCE A TRUE SCIENCE?
   Natural science describes the manifold observations that are made in nature. In contrast, Martinus explains how everything in life plays a meaningful role. If we wish to compare Martinus’ spiritual science with recognised academic disciplines, we have to turn to the humanities, which incidentally used to be called “spiritual sciences” in many European languages (for instance Geisteswissenschaften in German). The humanities are concerned with finding and acquiring an understanding of meaning. However, they see meaning purely as the product of human activity. The special feature of Martinus’ cosmic analyses is that they also show a meaning in nature outside of human activity. Martinus has created a spiritual science showing that all of nature is a product of conscious life, and that everything in nature has a meaning.
   Martinus was no philosopher who thought up ideas and set up hypotheses. He said quite modestly that the eternal laws and principles of life existed before he was born and that he was merely endowed with a faculty of sensing that enabled him to experience them. He tells us that after having acquired cosmic consciousness in 1921, it took him three years to obtain a complete overview of the world picture and get it all to fall into place.
   It is interesting to read about how Martinus acquired cosmic consciousness and experienced the cosmic laws and principles of nature. But the essential thing for the spiritual investigator must be to determine whether what Martinus writes is true and agrees with the facts of reality or fails to do so. Martinus himself or the way in which he gained his knowledge are entirely secondary. The formulation of the law of gravity is more important than the story of how Newton (1642–1727) sat under an apple tree and saw an apple fall to the ground, inspiring him with his brilliant idea. German chemist Friedrich Kekulé (1829–1896) solved the problem of the structure of benzene when he saw its molecule shaped like a ring in a dream, but it became science only after his insight had been verified in the laboratory by experiment.
   
   WHAT IS THE STARTING POINT OF SCIENCE?
   Spiritual and natural science are both based on specific starting points or axioms that cannot be proved. This is the case for all sciences. Martinus presupposes the existence of the world, i.e. the existence or constancy of energy, as well as the validity of the law of cause and effect. This starting point, that Martinus shares with natural science, is described in his basic conclusions no. 1 and no. 2 of the 12 basic conclusions of his “solution to the mystery of life” (LB2 §559–560, LB3 §680–681 and EWP3 §32.3–32.4).
   But Martinus breaks out of the framework of natural science when he continues with his basic conclusion no. 3 “Logic or planned activity”. Here he tells us that the investigator must recognize how this expression of nature’s cause and effect reveals a plan that shows itself upon closer inspection to be completely logical and purposeful. For example, is it not obvious that cell chemistry and human physiology act in a completely purposeful way?
   In basic conclusion no. 4, “Consciousness, thinking and the creation of ideas” he goes a step further and concludes that the logic and purpose that we see in nature must be an expression of the existence of consciousness and thinking. So there must be purposefulness and a plan in nature.
   In basic conclusion no. 5, “The existence of the living being”, he goes on to show that consciousness cannot exist as an isolated phenomenon, but can only appear in connection with a living being (LB2 §561–563, LB3 §682–684, EWP3 §32.5–32.7). So the marvellous structure of the universe indicates that it constitutes a living being. Martinus’ symbol of the living being corresponding to basic conclusion no. 5 is shown in Section 3.7.
   
   WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN NATURAL AND SPIRITUAL SCIENCE?
   The crucial difference between natural and spiritual science is that the latter assumes that life is – like energy – an eternally existing phenomenon. From a logical standpoint, there can be only two possibilities: 1. The phenomenon of life originated at a specific point in time. 2. The phenomenon of life has always existed. Who can prove that one of these statements is correct and the other one wrong?
   In contrast to an eternal phenomenon, every temporal thing has a beginning and thus a cause or origin. Martinus’ assumption of the constancy of life and energy leads unequivocally to thinking within an eternal framework. In order to understand the cosmic analyses, it is always necessary to distinguish between eternal and temporal phenomena. An inability to do this inevitably leads to delusional or confused thinking, as Martinus points out in LB4 §1059–1071.
   
   The distinct starting points of natural and spiritual science:
   1. The universe and life are phenomena that originated in time
   2. The universe and the phenomenon of life have an eternal existence
   
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3. Ole you always say that Martinus THINKS this and that, instead I think you should say that Martinus SAYS! Otherwise it sound like he only believes that thing are the way they are.. Thank you for your amazing work :)
4. Wow, what a fantastic lecture! You are an excellent speaker and explain things so clearly. Thank you!
   
   Intellectualized Christianity is a wonderful name. I started to read Martinus' Third Testament but never finished. I will be re-starting again. Martinus seems to explain everything I've been curious about.
   
   "... So in every meeting with a human being, with an animal ... that is a meeting with God." What a powerful statement and one I hope to burn into my brain right now.
5. MARTINUS SPIRITUAL SCIENCE IN A NUTSHELL:
   Science has shown that changes in physical matter are bound by law. The Danish author Martinus (1890-1981) shows that there are also laws for thinking. Knowledge of these mental laws of nature will make it possible for people to gain command of their mentality and gradually create a global kingdom of love on Earth.
   
   MARTINUS INSTITUTE
   In 1932 an administrative centre, now known as the Martinus Institute, was established in order to ensure the availability of Martinus' literature in the original Danish and in other languages. It is non-profit making and responsible for the school at the Martinus Centre, Klint, Denmark. Martinus Cosmology is not the basis for any kind of sect or association.
   
   MARTINUS (1890-1981)
   Martinus, born in Jutland, Denmark, had a very minimal education and spent most of his early working life as a dairyman. In 1921 he experienced a spontaneous transformation of consciousness which enabled him to analyse life and describe its spiritual laws and eternal principles. Martinus writes in the preface to "Livets Bog": "I had become my own source of light. The cosmic baptism of fire through which I had passed - the closer analysis of which I cannot specify here - had thus left the fact that entirely new sensory abilities had been released in me, abilities that enabled me - not in glimpses - but on the contrary in a permanent state of awake day-consciousness - to apprehend all the main spiritu-al forces, invisible causes, eternal world laws, basic ener-gies and basic principles behind the physical world. The mystery of existence was therefore no longer a mystery to me. I had become conscious in the life of the whole uni-verse, and had been initiated into 'the divine principle of creation'".
   In addition to his writings, which provide a scientific basis for loving all living beings, his many symbolic drawings with explanatory texts help the reader to acquire an over-view of the cosmic structure of life. Martinus died in Copenhagen in 1981.
   
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6. Who was Martinus?
   Life is a fairy-tale. When we look back over the millennia, we see that once in a long while a truly extraordinary genius is born, a prophet or world-renewer. I am convinced that our beautiful green and blue planet has received a visit from such a fantastic person in our time, namely Martinus (1890–1981). He was born out of wedlock in the small village of Sindal in north Jutland, Denmark, where he spent his childhood and the early part of his youth. He subsequently worked in various dairies around the province until he acquired cosmic consciousness at the age of thirty. During the last 60 years of his 90-year long life, he created a completely new science and world picture on the basis of his cosmic intuition – an Eternal World Picture (EWP).
   Martinus referred to his work as a science of love. He considered it to be an intellectualised or scientifically based Christianity. So in 1975 he began to call his collected works The Third Testament, because he felt that his spiritual science was in fact the promised continuation of the Old and New Testaments in the form of the divine advocate, the Holy Spirit (John 16, 12–15 and 14, 26). He also used the expression the Martinus Cosmology to designate his work. Cosmology is defined as the branch of philosophy concerned with the origin and nature of the universe. Cosmos stands in opposition to chaos – it implies a well-ordered universe based on laws. In brief, the Martinus Cosmology is a description of an ordered universe. It is a science of life showing that everything has a meaning, every detail is indispensable to the whole, and that in its final analysis everything is logical, purposeful and loving.
   
   
   What was the background to Martinus’ work?
   
   In the Preface to his main work Livets Bog (LB1–7), Martinus writes of the profound transformation of consciousness that formed the background to his entire written works. He tells us that at Easter 1921 he underwent the white and then the golden baptism of fire that endowed him with cosmic consciousness.
   He writes: “The cosmic baptism of fire that I experienced and which I cannot explain in more detail at this point had left me with new senses that allowed me to perceive the spiritual forces, invisible causes, eternal universal laws, basic energies and basic principles underlying the physical world, not merely as glimpses – but as a permanent condition of wide-awake day consciousness. So the mystery of existence ceased to be a mystery for me. I had become conscious in the life of the universe and had become initiated into the divine creative principle” (LB1 §21).
   This transformation of consciousness and associated new insight became the starting point for an authorship that lasted for 60 years.
   
   
   What does life look like from an eternal perspective?
   
   After his cosmic baptism of fire, Martinus discovered that he had gained new senses and was able to see into eternity itself.
   He writes: “I saw that I was an immortal being, and that all other beings in existence were eternal realities, who like myself had an endless series of earlier lives behind them, that we had all evolved from low primitive forms of existence to our present stage, and that this was merely a provisional stage along this evolutionary scale, and that we are on our way towards extremely highly advanced forms of existence in the distant future. I saw that the universe consisted of a single vast living being in which all other beings are organs, and that all of us – human beings, animals, plants and minerals – comprise a single family, may be said to be of the same flesh and blood” (LB1 §21).
   
   
   Was there any limit to Martinus’ knowledge?
   
   After having become cosmically conscious at the age of 30, Martinus discovered that he had acquired a permanent intuitive capability that gave him access to the universe’s ocean of knowledge. He could obtain answers to any question he was able to formulate. He now had a set of senses built up from and regulated by a highly evolved love, intelligence and intuition, which enabled him to experience the highest knowledge and the solution to the mystery of life (see LB1 §11 and §19).
   Martinus tells us that intuition has no limits, it is a form of energy that penetrates absolutely everything, allowing the individual to “see” the highest realities of existence and the meaning of life. A fuller description of the function of intuition is given in his main work, namely Livets Bog (LB1 §196–209 and LB2 §355).
   Martinus said several times in his last lecture that he had never encountered any limits to his knowledge or consciousness. There are no limits to what can be “observed” by intuition. He added that as soon as he had attuned himself to write his cosmic analyses, the knowledge almost rushed into his consciousness.
   
   
   Does Martinus refer to other writers?
   
   Martinus regarded himself as living proof that it was possible to arrive at the highest knowledge through oneself without having studied. He sought no support from other writers because he wanted his entire work to be a pure product of his cosmic awareness.
   Once, after a lecture, a listener said to Martinus that he must surely be a disciple of Oscar Wilde (1854–1900). To which Martinus answered with some force: “No, I am certainly not a disciple of Oscar Wilde, or of anyone else for that matter. I possess complete sovereignty.”
   The theory of intelligent design first arose in the USA at the end of the 1980s and was obviously unknown to Martinus, who died at Frederiksberg Hospital on March 8, 1981. But nowhere in his complete works does he mention Darwinism or Darwin by name either. However, he does analyse the mode of operation of science and its materialistic conception of nature and life in a general sense and in principle.
   In response to those who complained that they were unable to square spiritual science with natural science, Martinus pointed out in 1979: “What I have written is not intended to conform to science in any way. I am completely autonomous.”
   It may sound like boasting when Martinus spoke of the power of his cosmic consciousness, but he reminded his listeners that he was by no means unique or an exception in eternal evolution, a point that he also stresses in Livets Bog.
   He writes: “My cosmic experience and condition became the impulse for my subsequent activity in the world and for the creation of Livets Bog. And as already mentioned, this spiritual process will be experienced by every individual when he reaches the necessary stage of evolution in his eternal existence. It will then become apparent that my sensory gift does not represent any particular privilege or any exception at all from the rule. In the course of eternal evolution, I can never become a whit more than what all other beings before me have been and what all other beings after me will come to be” (LB1 §22).
   
   
   What is the general attitude to spiritual science?
   
   The cosmic laws and eternal realities can be experienced only through intuition, and the problem is that today’s science does not recognize this faculty as an instrument of knowing. Martinus calls his descriptions cosmic analyses because they are based on a holistic vision that takes its starting point in the eternal and infinite universe – the cosmos.
   
   Brief intuitive experiences that Martinus calls cosmic glimpses are harbingers of permanent cosmic consciousness. But the cosmic phenomena that a human being experiences in such a glimpse cannot become facts for others. They can at most become theoretical knowledge.
   
   Martinus writes of the difference between natural and cosmic science: “Therefore the difference between today’s science and spiritual or real cosmic science is that while the former is a result of a mode of sensing common to everyone, and can therefore become a fact for everyone, the latter knowledge or science is a result of senses still possessed only by a small minority. So it can naturally only be a fact for this minority, depending on the degree of development of their humaneness and their consequent intuitive capacity. That is why the great majority of terrestrial humanity will continue to be sceptical of real cosmic knowledge or spiritual science for a long time to come” (EWP2 §21.24).
   
   
   What is the Martinus Cosmology in a nutshell?
   
   Science has shown that all changes in physical matter are subject to laws. Martinus shows that there are also laws for the mind and for thinking. Knowledge of these universal mental laws will allow terrestrial humanity to gain dominion over its mentality and in the course of time to create a kingdom of love and peace upon the earth.
   
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