Science has shown that all 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 Cosmology provides an all-embracing world picture logically 
describing and analysing the spiritual laws of life. 
In his works Martinus describes a concept of life that can be summarized as follows: All living beings have eternal life. 
Man has reached his present stage through evolution through the mineral, plant and animal kingdoms, and is at present a sphinx being, part animal and part real human being. The temporary goal for our evolution is the establishment of a real human kingdom, a union of all nations in one global state capable of guaranteeing every living being on earth peace, justice and a completely happy life. 

Through reincarnation and evolution Man gradually develops new faculties that change his way of thinking and acting. The law of karma, "what you sow you must also reap", guarantees that he gradually becomes perfect, a moral genius capable of differing between good and evil. The human being of today will thus finally appear as a real human being - "man in God's image after His likeness". 

The cosmology of Martinus provides logically motivated answers to the fundamental questions of life. It leads to an optimistic view of life, and it provides the basis for a harmonious and empathetic relationship to all people and all living things. 

Martinus Cosmology is intended only for those people who find it particularly inspiring. Anyone interested in Martinus Cosmology may 
regard it as a theory of life that can be studied without restriction. 
Each may evaluate the cosmology independently on the basis of their own experiences and their own faculties of intelligence, feeling and intuition. No one need feel bound by anything other than his own conviction. 

The cosmology of Martinus is in complete agreement with the certain results of physical science. 

Martinus Cosmology also shows that behind the apparently illogical content of the world religions there are great, completely lucid intellectual perspectives. 
 

Symbol # 11 - The Eternal World Picture by Martinus

Other symbols by Martinus 
 

Martinus Cosmology shows the following : 

The universe is an all-embracing living being in whom we all live.

Every living being exists eternally and continuously.

Life is experienced through eternal evolution. Here the contrasts of light and darkness, pleasantness and unpleasantness, good and evil, etc. are absolutely essential for a continuous renewal of consciousness.

Terrestrial mankind in its entirety will gradually attain a completely happy and rich life here on Earth. This will take place gradually as the individual human being, because of unpleasantness, suffering and other experiences, comes to live in full accordance with life's laws for humane existence.

The goal of life is the experience of life itself, and here all people and all other living beings are in reality of equal value.
 

A few quotations of Martinus : 

"... in the eternal evolution I could not possibly constitute one single jot more than that which all other living beings before me have been, and which all other living beings after me will be." 
(Livets Bog (The Book of Life) 1, sect. 22) 

"Take what you can use from the cosmology and leave the rest." 
(Said in many lectures) 

"We must work and function like a clockwork. There will be small and large wheels, but they are equally important. If but just one wheel is missing, the clockwork will not function."
(Martinus 23/04/1974)
 

Who was Martinus? 

Martinus was born on August 11, 1890 in Sindal, a small provincial town in the north of Jutland, Denmark, where he spent his childhood in humble circumstances. His schooling was limited to a few years in the village school, where there was teaching twice a week in the summer and autumn. At the age of twelve he became a herd boy, and four years later he began his apprentice ship as a dairyman. He worked in various dairies 
in different parts of Denmark. In 1918 he became a watchman, and in 1920 he became an office clerk at Enigheden Dairy in Copenhagen. 

Martinus always liked things that amused him. He often said, "Laughing is one of the healthiest things one can do. " He was very good humoured and had an unusual  talent for telling funny stories and recounting amusing events. 

The following anecdote is from Martinus' "Memoirs": 
It comes from his time as a dairyman in Herrested where he had a friend who told him that he was afraid of ghosts. Martinus wanted to have a little fun with him. He said, "... one dark evening I lay in wait behind a roadside tree that I knew he would cycle past. When I saw him coming 
I put a white sheet over my head and stepped forward, waving my arms and shouting, "Ooh hooh!" He was suddenly in a terrible hurry to tread on the pedals and get away. " Some days later, when we were cycling along the same road I asked him if he hadn't met a ghost the other evening. Now he realised what had happened, but he could not help seeing the funny side of it." 

The background for Martinus' writing was the experience of a profound transformation of consciousness that took place in March 1921. Martinus comments on this event in "On the birth of my mission", chapter 16: 

Following the direction given in the borrowed book, I tried one evening to meditate on the concept of God. And suddenly, without knowing exactly how, I found myself in a conditon that made me feel in the presence of something immensely sublime. A small luminous point appeared in the distance. For a moment it disappeared. But a second later it became 
visible again, this time much nearer. I could now see that the light emanated from a Christ-like being, whose every detail was made of dazzling white light spangled with blue. 
The light was so intense and vivid that it reminded me of those sparklers we used to put on Christmas trees. The sparks in my revelation, however, were much, much smaller, but also much more numerous. 
There was again a pause, during which I found myself in darkness. 
But then the figure again illuminated the plateau. I looked directly into a figure made of fire. 
A Christ-being of dazzling brightness now moved straight towards me, raising its arms as if about to embrace me. I was totally paralysed. Unable to make the slightest move, I gazed straight at the radiant being's waist, now just in front of me and on a level with my eyes. But the figure kept moving forwards; and in the next moment it entered my own flesh and blood. A sublime feeling thrilled me. The paralysis left me. The divine light that had thus taken up residence within me enabled me to take a sweeping look at the world. 
And I beheld continents and oceans, cities and countries, mountains and valleys - all bathed in the light now emanating from my own mind. In this white light the earth was transfigured into "the kingdom of God"... 

Chapter 17: 
When on the following morning I seated myself in the chair in which I had meditated, I was again at once enveloped in the divine light. I looked into a bright blue sky, which seemed to be drawn aside, so that another, still brighter sky appeared. And thus it continued until a sky appeared so exuberantlydazzling in its golden light and vibrating at such a velocity that I felt myself at the limit of what my organism and consciousness could endure. A single step, a single fraction of a second, more and the celestial oscillation, with the immense power of lightning, instantaneously would have put an end to my physical existence. 
But during the fractions of a second that the revelation lasted I experienced a world of holiness, purity, harmony and perfection. I found myself in an ocean of light. This was not, as in my first revelation, white as snow, but the colour of gold. 
Everything in every detail was fire of a golden lustre. Throughout were vibrating thin, golden filaments, glittering here and there, within and without. I felt that this was the very consciousness of God, his own sphere of thought. It was the substance, the omnipotence, the supreme power, through which the divine I ruled and directed oceans of worlds, galaxies and nebulae, in the microcosmos as well as in macrocosmos. I was spell-bound. 
The divine fire vibrated within me and without, above and below. "The spirit of God", which according to the Bible "moved upon the face of the waters", the "fire" that Moses saw burning in the thornbush, the "fire" that took Elijah into heaven, the "fire" through which Jesus was transfigured on the mountain, the "fire" that appeared above the heads of the apostles and subsequently changed Saul into Paul on his way to Damascus, the "fire" that throughout all times has been the "alpha" and "omega" in every form of sublime creation, manifestation or revelation blazed here before my own eyes, vibrated in my own breast, in my own heart, and enveloped my whole being. 
I felt I was bathing in an element of love. I was at the origin, the very source, of everything warm in a father's and mother's affection for their offspring, of mutual devotion in the amours of a young couple. 
I saw the power that made the hand sign the letter of pardon, abolish slavery, protect life's weaker ones, whether it be a little animal or a frail human being. I saw the sunshine that can melt the ice and remove the cold from every mind, transform the barren deserts of hopelessness and 
pessimism into fertile and sunny regions of consciousness, warm the heart, inspire the brain, making the individual forgive injustice, love his enemy, and understand the criminal. It was as if I was resting in the bosom of the Almighty. 
I was resting at the fountainhead of universal love, seeing divine perfection, seeing that I was one with the way, the truth and the life, 
and one with the great Father. 

Here one may with some justice ask what significance these experiences have for other people. Martinus answers with the following: 

Chapter 20: 
Of paramount importance to the reader is not my spiritual experiences as such, but the effects they have had, for these can be more or less verified by anyone ethically disposed and sufficiently impartial and open-minded. These effects constitute my collective manifestation: 
the creation of a truly mathematical world analysis, an absolutely incontestable spiritual science and the ensuing incipient genesis of a new mentality, a new culture, in which the true understanding of life, its finely-drawn laws of love and culminating global logic and highest solution, "Everything is very good", from being utopias may pass on to be real life, tangible facts, accessible to everyone whose reason and 
emotions have matured sufficiently. 

The cosmic baptism of fire through which I had passed - the closer analysis of which I cannot specify here - had thus released in me entirely new sensory abilities, abilities which enabled me - not in glimpses - but on the contrary in a permanent state of awake day-consciouness - 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 Creative Principle".  

©Martinus Åndsvidenskabelige Institut 
 

Articles of Martinus
http://www.martinus.dk/layout_pages/index.php?lang=uk
 

For further information contact the following websites :

The official web site for Martinus Cosmology 
http://www.martinus.dk

The Third Testament website
http://www.thirdtestament.com

The MartinusWeb.Org Portal
http://www.martinusweb.org

Discussion forum of The Third Testament
http://www.det-tredie-testamente.dk/frameset.html

Martinus' Cosmology - a world picture for the future 
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Olympus/3987/martinus.html

Martinus' Cosmology in brief
http://home3.inet.tele.dk/thorkil/cosmology

Martinus Cosmology site in Brisbane, Australia
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~kosmos

About glimpses of cosmic conciousness - The Kundalini Network
http://www.kundalini.se/eng/n_engkni_1024.html

Kundalini Warning !
http://kundalini-info.org/fallgrop.html

Lectures about Martinus Cosmology - RealPlayer sound files in Danish
http://www.alternativkanalen.com/martinus.html

Martinus Cosmology in Norway
http://home.c2i.net/boye.garmann

The cosmic world picture in Norwegian 
http://www.galactic-server.com/rune/udxma.html