The Danish Intuitive Martinus and Eckhart Tolle – Ole Therkelsen
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Ole Therkelsen, Denmark, talks in 16 min on intuition, cosmic consciousness and the Danish intuitive Martinus (1890-1981) and also mentions Eckhart Tolle (born 1948). Symbols in Video © Martinus Institute. www.martinus.dk Martinus has written 10,000 pages and created an Eternal World Picture, Martinus Cosmology, Martinus Spiritual Science, also called The Third Testament Ole is not an expert on Eckhart Tolle rather on Martinus. Symbols Copyright © Martinus Institute 1981. See www.martinus.dk Video is from 21.08.2014, Martinus Centre Klint, Klintvej 69, DK-4500 Nykøbing Sjaelland, Denmark. Ole has written two books in English: "Martinus, Darwin and Intelligent Design. A new Theory of Evolution". "Martinus and the new World Morality". Ole Therkelsen (born 1948) speaks and writes from his background as a trained chemist and biologist as well as on the basis of his life-long commitment to Martinus Cosmology. Since 1980 he has given 2000 talks on the Cosmology in fifteen countries in six different languages. Many of these talks may be heard on www.oletherkelsen.info www.oletherkelsen.dk, www.oletherkelsen.info, www.martinusshop.dk, www.varldsbild.com, www.varldsbild.se amazon.com Martinus and his Works THE THIRD TESTAMENT Martinus entitled his collected works The Third Testament. It comprises Livets Bog (The Book of Life) in 7 volumes, The Eternal World Picture in 4 volumes (symbols with explanations), Logic, “Bisættelse” (about funerals), Intellectualised Christianity, Collected Articles 1 and 28 shorter works together with numerous articles published in the magazine Kosmos. MARTINUS (1890–1981) Martinus, born in Sindal in the north of 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 that 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 … 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 spiritual forces, invisible causes, eternal world laws, basic energies 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 universe, 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 overview of the cosmic structure of life. Martinus died in Copenhagen in 1981. THE MARTINUS CENTRE The Martinus Centre is a school for the study of Martinus Cosmology. Established in 1934, it is situated in Klint, near Nykøbing Sjælland, on the north coast of the island of Zealand (Sjælland), 60 miles north west of Copenhagen. Summer courses are available in English, German, Esperanto, the Scandinavian languages and other languages on request. There are also spring, autumn and winter courses in the Scandinavian languages. THE MARTINUS INSTITUTE In 1932 an administrative centre, now known as the Martinus Institute, was established in Frederiksberg, Copenhagen in order to ensure the availability of Martinus’ literature in the original Danish and other languages. It is non-profit making and responsible for the school at the Martinus Centre. There are lectures, seminars and study circles in Danish at the institute from September to April. Martinus Cosmology is not the basis for any kind of sect or association. Books and other publications by Martinus available in English (2010) The Third Testament – Livets Bog (The Book of Life) 1 The Third Testament – Livets Bog (The Book of Life) 2 The Third Testament – Livets Bog (The Book of Life) 4 The Third Testament – Livets Bog (The Book of Life) 5 The Eternal World Picture 1 The Eternal World Picture 2 The Eternal World Picture 3 The Eternal World Picture 4 Logic Easter Meditation The Fate of Mankind The Ideal Food The Immortality of Living Beings The Mystery of Prayer The Principle of Reincarnation The Road of Life The Road to Initiation World Religion and World Politics The Road to Paradise Marriage and Universal Love (a 29-page article) Martinus Cosmology – an Introduction Kosmos (a quarterly magazine) The Martinus Institute Mariendalsvej 94–96 DK–2000 Frederiksberg Denmark E-mail: info@martinus.dk Website: www.martinus.dk Bookshop: shop.martinus.dk
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In Livets Bog 5, § 1935 Martinus writes:
THE TWO SEXUAL POLES MERGING AND BEING'S SEXUAL TRANSFORMATION FROM ANIMAL TO HUMAN
1935. With regard to the two poles, then the ordinary pole, that is, the masculine pole in the man and the feminine pole in the woman, has in its release centre in the sexual organs. The latent or opposite pole, that is, masculine pole in the woman and the feminine pole in the man, has its release centre in the brain organs. In the normal terrestrial human being, these two centres are still clearly separate. But gradually, as evolution progresses and the opposite pole increases, a connecting line, a kind of mental main nerve, grows between the two centres. It begins as a radiant offshoot from both centres, that is, from the brain and from the sexual centre in region of the spinal cord.
These two offshoots continue to grow until they reach one another one day and immediately make a connection. This in turn means that full contact also arises at that moment between the sexual brain centre and the sexual mating centre or centre for attraction. The being becomes completely awake day-conscious in its opposite pole, which at that very moment is being overshadowed by the centre for sexual attraction. Attraction to, or love for, its own sex then arises in the being, but this love has nothing to do with marriage. Indeed, this new feeling of attraction differs from the previous sexual attraction, which was a mobilisation of energy for mating and thereby for the desire for ownership of another being that we know as "amorous love", by being true love.
This in turn means an expression of energy that definitely does not aim to possess or own anyone or anything, but senses nothing but an all-encompassing feeling of pleasure in serving everything and everyone in contact with the divine laws. The appearance of one’s fellow beings as men or women is no longer the object of the culmination of love, but the "human being" in the human being is. […]
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THE NARCOTIC-ANIMAL NUTRITION LEADS TO ILLNESS
From my book "Martinus and the new World Morality"
The narcotic-animal nutrition, which includes meat and other animal products, beer, wine and spirits and also tobacco and narcotics, is very harmful to health. Although most people regard it as natural and right to eat meat and drink beer and wine, Martinus thinks, that for the people of today it should be looked upon as a burden. The moving away from meat eating will come to consist of a habituation to natural products, so the warped ability to taste can be transformed to again being to react against those substances, which are harmful to the organism. Before becoming used to tobacco and alcohol the sense of taste reacted very strongly indeed against these products. (The Ideal Food, chap. 8-10).
The transition to the right human food occurs, according to Martinus, not only with ordinary information in the form of the written and spoken word, but also with the learning from experience and the illnesses which come from the undermining of health with the narcotic-animal nutrition.
Martinus, “And it is this undermining that, in the form of all existing organic illnesses, is the greatest instigator for people’s evolution towards the true human food. As the illnesses increase to the same extent as people’s nutritional aberrations increase, and as absolute health or an existence free of illness is thereby impossible as long as the vice or the narcotic-animal source of nutrition is maintained, all people, through their organic sufferings and illnesses, will ultimately be led to a purer source of nutrition, to absolute health.” (The Ideal Food, chap. 8).
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WHAT ARE THE KARMIC CONSEQUENCES OF EATING MEAT?
The law of karma is widely accepted in the Orient, while here in the West we talk about the law of fate and the Bible tells us that we shall reap what we sow and that we should do unto others as we wish them to do unto us. A Danish proverb says: “Smile at the world and the world will smile back at you”. Martinus also explains how the law of fate represents a mirror principle (Livets Bog vol. 4 §1262, Livets Bog vol. 6 §2128).
In physics, Newton’s third law says that every action has an equal and opposite reaction, which implies that every action inevitably has specific consequences. We must bear the consequences of all our actions. If we as parents bring up our children to accept the consequences of their actions, it should be easy to understand that we adults must also assume the consequences of our own actions. Indeed, the whole of science is based on the law of cause and effect.
Martinus tells us that eating meat has serious consequences for our fate, because by doing so we are the cause of animals being killed. But human beings don’t kill animals because they hate them. Because their slaughter does not involve any anger or hate, animals experience it more or less as an accident. As the law of fate acts as a kind of mirror principle, meat-eaters have no protection from being injured or killed in air or road accidents. Similarly serious consequences come from hunting, fishing and eating animal products from the sea. Meat-eating can also be the cause of drowning accidents or of major and minor accidents at home and at work.
Martinus in no way reproached people for eating meat. He was everyone’s friend and loved everyone, irrespective of whether they ate meat, were smokers or drank alcohol, but he merely wished to inform them of the consequences of doing so. He recommended that we become vegetarians if we wished to have better health and to be protected from accidents.
Time will tell if the science of nutrition will confirm Martinus’ analyses of the health-promoting effects of vegetarianism.
The assertion that meat-eating is the cause of accidents may be confirmed empirically by carrying out a scientific study to identify any statistical correlations between cases of death and injury from accidents and factors such as being a hunter or angler, eating meat and being vegetarian. As far as I am aware, no such study has yet been carried out on the basis of the accident statistics. It should nevertheless be possible to obtain considerable information from hospitals and insurance companies to determine a possible correlation between the occurrence of accidents on the one hand and killing animals and eating meat on the other.
DOES MARTINUS HAVE A LOGICAL EXPLANATION FOR THE LAW OF FATE THAT SAYS THAT WE MUST REAP WHAT WE HAVE SOWN?
Martinus argues that something lifeless cannot be the cause of a movement – only something living can (see §3.11). The “I” – the living core of the living being – must therefore be the cause of every movement.
As every movement can only go in a curved or circular path, it must necessarily return to its origin – namely the “I”. The core of his argument for the law of fate is thus: As movements can only travel in circular paths, every energy impulse that is sent out must return to its sender – the eternally existing “I”.
If someone commits a murder, for example, he carries out an action that represents a certain energy concentration, and this is transformed into spiritual matter that propagates out into space (Kosmos no. 2/1996). Thus the principle involved in eating meat is expressed as accidents. Animals experience being slaughtered as an accident. The electromagnet energy ray that is sent out does not represent the concrete action but the principle behind it. Due to the law of movement, no energy impulse can go in a straight line but must follow a curved or circular path. So it must inevitably return to its origin with an effect that corresponds to the one sent out. Against this background, the law of fate can be understood as a law of nature equivalent to the laws of gravity or electromagnetism.
Martinus tells us that these circular paths can be so immeasurably large that the fate impulses may be on their way several hundreds of years, even though they move faster than light (The Ideal Food, Chapter 6). The fastest speed known in the physical world is that of light. As soon as this is exceeded, the moving body enters the spiritual world. Anything moving faster than light becomes dematerialised: it is converted from the three familiar states of matter, namely solids, liquids and gases, to a fourth state of matter that Martinus calls the spiritual or ray-formed state. And in the reverse direction too, something from the spiritual world that drops below the speed of light is materialised in the physical world. Martinus writes about materialisation in LB2 §361, LB5 §1936, The Road of Life, Book no. 22C and Kosmos no. 3/2005 and no. 8/2006.
Martinus pointed out that these were neither speculations nor theories. For him they were real facts, because the circular paths of the fate-forming rays can be followed by the cosmic consciousness through space and observed just as easily as physical realities are accessible to the physical senses (The Ideal Food, Chapter 6). The emitted fate energies form part of a being’s body of eternity. More on this topic may be found in EWP1 Chapter 16, where Martinus also explains the symbol of the body of eternity. See also his analyses of this topic in The Eternal World Picture 3 § 32.13 and Livets Bog vol. 3 §750–751.
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In his two main works, Livets Bog [The Book of Life 1–7] and The Eternal World Picture, Martinus explains that natural science is based on INTELLIGENCE and INVESTIGATION FROM BELOW, whereas spiritual science is based on INTUITION and INVESTIGATION FROM ABOVE: he tells us that these two kinds of science will in future merge to form a single holistic science.
WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN INVESTIGATION BY MEASUREMENT AND INVESTIGATION INTO THE MANIFESTATIONS OF LIFE?
The difference between Martinus’ spiritual science and natural science can be illustrated by an analogy that looks at how science might examine a book. Because natural science works with measurements, a scientist would weigh the book, measure its height, length and breadth, count the number of pages, commas and full stops, and produce analyses and diagrams showing the frequency of the various letters. The ink will be analysed to determine its constituents and the fibre making up the paper would be examined in an electron microscope etc. But this approach will tell us nothing about the contents of the book.
The relationship of science to the meaning of life and life’s direct speech is analogous to that of an illiterate person to a text. He can see the letters just as well as a literate person, but cannot grasp their invisible meaning or the mental content behind the physical form of the text. A materialist can see all the outer forms of nature, and concludes like an illiterate person in the school of life that they have no meaning, and that the whole thing has no plan. With its starting point in the postulate of objectivity, science has cut itself off from investigating meaning and design in nature and the whole of evolution. This does not make scientific results any less correct within the purely material domain, but this approach will not lead to finding the meaning of life or to a solution of its mystery.
Martinus tells us that the entire physical world is like an open book, indeed a book of life. The physical world is the school of life that allows its students to experience life and to evolve. Martinus’ main work Livets Bog is consequently a grammar book and textbook for the language of life or the direct speech of life. This speech is addressed to all the beings living in the physical world, namely minerals, plants, animals and human beings, irrespective of whether they are aware of this or not, irrespective of whether they understand it or not. The mission of spiritual science is to teach the spiritual investigator to read the real book of life in order to understand the meaning and purpose of all life’s experiences. The materialist, with his arid and dead measurements, must confront the real book of life representing our existence like an illiterate person.
The aim of spiritual science is to find the unseen meaning behind the outer forms. An idea is incarnated in everything created by man, such as in a cup that can hold a drink, or a chair designed to be sat upon. But Martinus tells us that an idea is also incarnated in all the creations of nature.
In brief, there is a meaning behind all minerals, plants, animals and human beings, namely that each single shall one experience and life evolve to become a perfect and all-loving being endowed with cosmic consciousness – the meaning of evolution is the development of consciousness!
HOW CAN THE CORRECTNESS OF THE COSMIC ANALYSES BE CHECKED?
Science deals with the documentation of facts. If a physicist discovers a law of nature, others will also be able to confirm it in their laboratories. A result must be reproducible if it is to be regarded as scientifically proven.
But it should naturally also be possible to confirm the results and laws of a spiritual science with logic and one’s own observations. All the small and great personal experiences of life, all psychological and biological phenomena, all historical and social events must also fit into this cosmic world picture if it is to be acknowledged as a science. For those interested in the cosmic analyses, all of life becomes a single vast object of investigation. Every deed, piece of information or experience can be used to test the validity of the cosmic analyses.
Martinus recommended students of his cosmic analyses to adopt an extremely critical and sceptical attitude to them, because he felt that they were so unassailable that they could withstand even the strongest scepticism and doubt. Anyone who is interested in investigating the truth of Martinus’ cosmic analyses, irrespective of their level of academic education, thus becomes a spiritual scientist.
WHAT IS THE METHOD OF THE SPIRITUAL INVESTIGATOR?
To the spiritual investigator, the cosmic analyses are, to begin with, Martinus’ own personal knowledge. But as soon as he can verify them by his personal experience, by his own reason and logic, this knowledge changes from being Martinus’ knowledge to becoming his own personal knowledge. The aim of Martinus spiritual science is to lead the student to an independent thinking and understanding of life that is not based on belief, but on knowledge that can be verified by logic and personal experience.
For the spiritual researcher, Livets Bog is a manual for observing life, just like a flora that helps a botanist to observe plants. Livets Bog is an aid to understanding the direct speech of life or the book of life itself. Martinus is not an authority to be believed, he is merely a guide who shows where and how we can make our own observations of the laws of life. He did not write his series of cosmic analyses that together constitute the fundamental analysis of the universe merely for others to study. Their aim is to stimulate the reader to find out personally whether their statements really agree with his own observations. Our own experiences and observations will show the validity of Martinus’ work – the Eternal World Picture.
WHAT WAS MARTINUS’ METHOD?
Martinus’ method did not aim merely to produce results on a continuous basis, as is the case in the sciences, although he did on occasion carry out new special analyses when he was presented with new problems. But before he began to write his cosmic analyses, he had – thanks to his intuition – a complete overview of the eternal world picture, the solution to the mystery of life and the eternal laws and principles of life. The great effort for him was not so much to acquire this knowledge, but rather to intellectually justify and demonstrate the eternal truths, which he could otherwise easily have presented as postulates, statements or results in finished form. But he would then merely have founded a religion and not a new spiritual science.
He once explained that his knowledge at first entered his consciousness in a colourless and wordless form that he later had to suitably arrange and put into words. This was followed by the major work of transferring this knowledge to a logical and intellectually accessible form. The intuition is a faculty that allows specific knowledge to be experienced directly in the form of finished conclusions or ideas. Martinus writes that this faculty can transfer such knowledge to the day consciousness in the form of an automatic faculty of analysis so that an intuitive experience will always produce complete ideas (see LB6 §2194).
His work, which he produced over 60 years, thus consisted in making these intuitive facts and complete conclusions and results accessible to the normal intelligence. In his cosmic analyses, he expressed cosmic truths in logical sequences of thoughts. Because he knew the solution to the equation in advance, his writings described all the calculations that lead to the highest conclusions about life. So the reader can use his own experience, reason and logic to check all the calculations that lead to these eternal cosmic conclusions. The Martinus Cosmology is consequently not an object of belief, but an aid to independent thinking and to an individual understanding of life.
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MARTINUS talks about "cosmic glimpses", which is pure "intuitive perception"
MARTINUS ABOUT THE RISKS OF MEDITATION
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Conditions for the experience of natural cosmic glimpses
10. We have seen here examples of how the spirit of God can truly overshadow the consciousness or mentality of a physical human being. This impact of God's spirit on the mentality of the human being is thus not something that happened only to the prophets of Israel. It is something that can also happen this very day. And I think that there must be accounts of cosmic glimpses in world literature. Terrestrial mankind is at any rate so far advanced in evolution that there will now gradually be people who are mature enough to receive or experience cosmic glimpses. These people, who are thus completely ready for this expe-rience, certainly do not know it themselves. Indeed, they will as a rule totally deny that they could be so far advanced in evolution. All the many who consider themselves to be on the verge of a cosmic glimpse are still very far from this divine experience. The experience comes to those people who have become very humble and mentally calm, beings who have absolutely no ambition or wish to become anything great, either physically or spiritually. They are by nature very loving towards their neighbours, and in fact wish only to be of help to other people. It is this liberation from, or outgrowing of, ambition, combined with an outstanding humane capacity, that makes the cosmic glimpses harmless. For people who are still ambitious or hungry for fame and who would like to be something great (indeed even have a strong desire to acquire higher cosmic faculties) the impact of a cosmic glimpse can be very dangerous. Such a being's selfish thought-climate will immediately short-circuit the impact of cosmic energy, and the being will come into an abnormal state, which in the worst cases will result in his believing that he is Christ and that he has a very great mission that must be fulfilled. He can also involve himself in other forms or manifestations of megalomania, just as his nerves and heart can suffer a great or excessive strain. Such an experience is most accurately expressed as a bitter experience, and, what is more, is of no particular benefit.
MARTINUS ABOUT THE RISKS OF MEDITATION.
Cosmic glimpses come entirely by themselves and not by any kind of artificial training
11. A cosmic glimpse with such unfortunate consequences can, however, take place only if brought about artificially, which means that in one way or another, by harmfully concentrated meditation or thinking, the being concerned has brought about the cosmic glimpse. As the general, everyday thought-climate of the being is not on a level with the vibrations and wavelengths of the cosmic glimpse, dangerous mental short-circuits that can lead to abnormality, nervous breakdown and other forms of unpleasantness arise. How does it then happen that people can bring about cosmic glimpses prematurely? In certain cases it can happen that the cosmic glimpse occurs during meditation, even though the person meditating is much too immature to experience such an impact on the consciousness. It is then that the short circuit occurs. It can thus be very dangerous to meditate if one is totally unacquainted with the laws of the cosmic structure. When people in the East practise meditation very much and can achieve natural results, it is mainly due to the fact that they respect the holy activities in quite a different way from people here in the West. In the East, where people are to a great extent pupils of eminent wise men and are instructed by them in the correct attitude towards meditation, then meditation will not present any danger for the pupil, since he is under the care of his highly advanced wise man and will not get a harmful attitude to this particular activity. Here we must first and foremost understand that cosmic glimpses have to come entirely of their own accord and not through any kind of experimentation whatsoever, nor as the result of training. And the real and beneficial experiences of cosmic glimpses come, as previously stated, when the person in question in no way suspects or expects it. Indeed, in most cases, he would not be able even to dream of his being so developed as to be able to experience cosmic glimpses, that divine connection with the holy spirit. This experience comes quite by itself when the human being is mature enough. This does not mean that one should not meditate – on the contrary – but this meditation must be absolutely harmless and be as appropriate as possible for producing that maturity which qualifies the human being to receive the holy spirit in his consciousness. Artificial attainment of cosmic glimpses can cause insanity and nervous breakdown.
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A REAL-LIFE FAIRY TALE
When we look back over the millennia, we see that once in a while a truly extraordinary genius is born. I am convinced that our blue planet has received a visit from a moral genius, namely the Danish author and world-renewer, Martinus (1890-1981).
Martinus Thomsen was born out of wedlock on 11 August 1890 in Sindal, North Jutland, Denmark, which was where he spent his childhood and the early part of his youth. He first worked as a farm hand and was later trained as a dairyman. He subsequently worked in various dairies around the province until he moved to Copenhagen, where at the age of thirty he experienced a great expansion of consciousness.
Martinus’ lifestyle was very simple and frugal and he did not attract any great public attention during his lifetime.
At Eastertide in 1921, Martinus experienced what he himself described as the “great birth”, which endowed him with cosmic consciousness. This birth or initiation, which lasted several days, would certainly not have been important had it not left Martinus in a new state of consciousness with permanent intuitive or cosmic sense abilities. With these new abilities he had access to a new world and had been, as it were, born into a higher level of consciousness. Judging by that science of love, which he thereafter created, this higher world was his real and natural domicile.
It would seem that during our lifetime here on Earth, we have received a visit from a guest from a higher world.
The background to Martinus’ work
In his book On the Birth of my Mission and in the Preface to his main work Livets Bog (The Book of Life), Martinus writes that the background for his entire written works was the profound transformation of consciousness which occurred in March 1921 when he experienced “the white baptism of fire” and “the golden baptism of fire”.
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).
After this cosmic baptism of fire, Martinus had acquired extra-sensual abilities and was able to see into eternity and infinity. By 24th March 1921, Martinus had acquired permanent cosmic consciousness.
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 immensely lofty 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).
During the following 60 years of his life, Martinus wrote a work of approx. 10,000 pages, creating a completely new science and a completely new world picture – The Eternal World Picture (EWP), on the basis of his cosmic intuition. In his main work Livets Bog, covering seven volumes (LB1-LB7) and approx. 3,000 pages, Martinus uses the expression “the eternal wisdom” in one place to refer to his work. (LB1 §7).
1.3 The meditation that led to the expansion of consciousness
In 1921, Martinus was working in the office of the dairy, Enigheden. It was here he heard about a new and interesting book on spiritual matters, which one of his colleagues had read. After making sure that the new spiritual path also had something to do with prayer, he became interested and wanted to borrow the book and one day in February 1921 he was invited to the home of the book owner, Lars Peter Larsen (1879-1948), who later changed his name to Lars Nibelvang. For the next seven years, he became Martinus’ daily interlocutor and friend. (Martinus As We Remember Him, Zinglersen Publishers 1989).
Martinus says that he did not finish the book to the end and that the only thing he remembered of the little he read was that the book caused him to meditate upon God. When Martinus began to write his books ten years later, he remembered neither the title nor the author of the book as the momentous spiritual experience had had such a huge impact on his brain.
After the immense expansion of consciousness, Martinus was completely prevented from reading any further for psychical reasons.
He writes: “The mere thought of reading a book was enough to produce a feeling in my brain as if it were going to burst. And during the period from the time when I underwent this spiritual process until I had looked through the entire world picture fundamentally and manifested it in picture form, I was not in touch with any kind of book or any other kind of theoretical guidance. Also, before the awakening of my cosmic faculties, I must be considered as having been quite an unschooled person, never having really studied but only having attended an ordinary primary school, which, as I was born in the country, meant just three hours at school twice a week in summer and only a little more in winter.” (LB1 §22).
Martinus did not subsequently read either theosophical or anthroposophical books. It is thus incorrect when it is claimed that Martinus should have depended upon theosophy and anthroposophy in order to create his world picture. At school Martinus was fond of the Scriptures but he stresses that he did not get his knowledge neither from reading nor from studying. (On My Cosmic Analyses, book 12, chap. 25).
He said: “Several people have said to me that I must have read or studied, but I have not. I am living proof that one can come to the highest knowledge through one’s own consciousness, which is a state everybody is on the way to acquiring.” (Danish Kosmos, no. 3/1991).
The vision of Christ and “the white baptism of fire”
Lars Nibelvang writes in his diary that he had spoken to Martinus and given him instructions on how one could meditate in a comfortable chair and by perhaps placing a cover over one’s eyes to keep out the light and thus be able to concentrate better. So Martinus bought a new wicker chair for the purpose, and he says that the chair almost came alive and seemed quite magnetic as it creaked all the time. (Danish Kosmos, no. 3/1991).
Martinus lived in a small room on the first floor to the left at 52A, Jagtvej in Copenhagen when one evening at Eastertide, he experienced the white baptism of fire: He had a vision of Christ.
While he was meditating on God, in a day-conscious cosmic vision Martinus came to experience his calling to create the cosmic science which logically and intellectually was to explain the “many things” which Jesus could not explain to his disciples, as they could not fathom them. (Intellectualised Christianity §2).
Martinus had not been seated very long before he saw a luminous point in the distance and suddenly a Christ-like figure appeared. It was the Danish sculptor, Bertel Thorvaldsen’s sculpture of Christ “Come unto me”, which is placed in Copenhagen Cathedral. The statue was small and some distance away. It was dark, but then the light reappeared and now the figure came alive and had human dimensions, clothed in a robe of dazzling, small stars, almost like a cloak of diamonds. The light was dazzlingly bright, like snow, and mixed with blue. This Christ-being of dazzling brightness moved straight towards Martinus, who sat paralysed in his wicker-chair. He looked directly into a figure made of fire, small dazzling lights, like sparklers, but with much smaller sparks. The figure moved forward and then entered into his body and blood. Here it came to rest. A divine sensation moved Martinus and the paralysis left him. The divine light that had thus taken up residence within Martinus enabled him to take a sweeping look at the world. From this divine figure within Martinus there radiated an immense ray of light and Martinus could in this light see the Earth turning. He beheld continents and oceans, cities and countries, mountains and valleys – all bathed in the light now emanating from his own mind. In this white light the Earth was transfigured into “the Kingdom of God”. And with that the divine vision ended. (Intellectualised Christianity §2, On the Birth of My Mission, chap. 16).
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