Martinus' Cosmology - a world picture for the future

After his “cosmic birth” in 1921, the Danish initiate, Martinus Thomsen (1890-1981) wrote the most extensive and comprehensive cosmology yet to be seen in print on our planet. Below is a presentation of him and of his cosmology.

Martinus’ main symbol:  Cosmos and the living beings:

The symbol above shows the basic energies and organisation principles of the universe.
The six-pointed stat in the middle symbolises the deity, of which all living beings form parts, and the white circles in the periphery symbolised units of individualised consciousness, such as atoms, human beings, planets or galaxies. The six coloured fields around the star show the different kingdoms and corresponding energies through which the life unit passes on its eternal journey

Red: Instinct energy, corresponding with the plant kingdom.
Orange: Gravity energy, corresponding with the animal kingdom. Humanity forms part of the animal kingdom,
but is gradually evolving towards the next kingdom as we outlive our negative qualities of hate, egotism and pride.
Yellow: Emotion energy, corresponding with the true human kingdom, While beings in the mineral kingdom, the plant kingdom and the animal kingdom all have physical bodies of dense matter (as well as Para-physical bodies which form the spiritual part of the individual, it's identity on the higher planes), a transition takes place in the true human kingdom so that the beings who pass through it gradually give up their physical bodies and the contact with the denser worlds and evolve into the higher spiritual energies where they live in their spiritual bodies.
Green: Intellect energy, corresponding with the wisdom kingdom, an area of cosmos with which we have only little contact, except through visitors to our planet from higher civilisations. This kingdom is totally permeated by love and wisdom, and its inhabitants endowed with culminating intelligence and creativity. Together with the next kingdom, the divine kingdom, this forms the "drawing board" of the deity, and its primary spiritual consciousness from which life in the other worlds is planned and governed.
Turquoise: Intuition energy, corresponding with the divine kingdom The inhabitants of this spiritual kingdom have a culminating control of the intuition energy, the highest intellectual energy of the universe, and therefore form the highest part of the divine consciousness.
Pale blue: Memory energy, corresponding with the mineral kingdom. The beings in this kingdom live primarily in their memories, since the memory energy is dominant in this region, but they still have a strong intuition and intellect energy. Gradually as they evolve out of the sphere of memory energy and towards that of instinct energy, they loose their cosmic consciousness which was developed during the passage of the true human kingdom, and have to experience another passage of the material worlds and of darkness to experience the contrasts of light and darkness before they can regain it again. In this way the circuit is full ended, but on a higher rung of the spiral.

The planet in the orange field is the Earth, still dominated by gravity energy, and the star in the yellow field shows the coming society of light which will appear on the Earth in 3,000 years when the energy of emotion and the principle of love will be dominating.

Who was Martinus?
Here’s a picture of Martinus in his apartment in Copenhagen, where some of his symbols can be seen in the background. Translation of excepts from Per Bruus-Jensen: “Martinus - a modern mystic”.

Childhood and youth
Martinus was born in Northern Jutland in the village of Sindal which is known today for its 100 fountains. But at the time of his birth in 1890, the conditions were different, for at that time, Sindal was only a  small market town in a part of the country which was relatively poor. He lived his childhood under very modest circumstances, and as he was born outside of marriage, he was sent out early to serve as a herd boy for some of the farmers in the region.

Martinus received his education in the local village school which did only teach the most elementary skills - reading, writing, calculation and religion. Later he was trained as a dairyman and worked in a dairy until 1922. This is all the education he got, and seen in relation to this, his cosmic world picture is a remarkable creation from his hand. This is so much more the case as it is entirely original and unique and thus transcending the scope of what information he could have acquired through the study of subjects like philosophy and science. In his small book “About the birth of my mission”, Martinus explains the circumstances which  were the basis of his later work as a writer and lecturer and as a spokesman for humanity and love in all the relations of life.

A spiritual break-through
In brief it can be told here that in the spring of 1921 he was unexpectedly the subject of a series of strong spiritual experiences which opened him to a profound insight into both the mystery of Christ and the mystery of God. But what was more important: Through the said experiences he also had acquired totally new mental abilities like the ability to see through the physical reality and uncover the para-physical/spiritual reality which forms the basis of the imperishableness of life and therefore also the personal immortality of every single unit of life or living being. Yet he was even more impressed by the fact that in some way he had to his own surprise been granted the access to a limitless ocean of knowledge which he could freely access and distribute. At the instant where he asked himself a question, the answer arrived clearly in his consciousness, regardless of what sort of question he asked. In other words, he had become connected to a divine database which was apparently free for him to access. And with this background, he had become his own source of knowledge and wisdom. With the Greek word for this condition, he had become a mystes, or with the modern version of this word, a mystic, i.e. a person who has his knowledge from within himself, from his own consciousness. In this way he belongs in historic terms to the line of earlier Christian mystics like Meister Eckehardt, Nicolaus Cusanus, Jacob Böhme and Emmanuel Swedenborg, yet in the eyes of the author of this text, his work surpasses theirs in its extension, clarity and logic analyses.

The creation of the cosmic world picture
Not surprisingly, Martinus with his newly won abilities quickly was engaged in the question of what use he could put them to, and just as important, to what degree he was allowed to use them. For as the situation was, he had suddenly been given access to knowledge which could cause terrible disasters and terrors to humanity in the wrong hands (unknown forces and laws of nature, black magic etc). But in this situation, too, the answer came quickly and precisely: His task was to reveal a new world picture so extensive that it could be used as an inspiration and impulse for humanity to motivate people for an accelerated ethical phase of development, and which could lead to the creation of a new society in the future when in the future it was accepted by all people - a real human kingdom - raised above any form of want, poverty, disease and suffering. With this as his background, Martinus began his work on formulating such a new world picture with the knowledge that it would be hard to find supporters for it in the beginning. Partly because he was totally untrained in expressing himself within such areas - both orally and in the written word - and partly because for good reasons there often wasn’t words in the language which could express the realities and phenomena in the new world picture, and therefore he had to invent them himself. And finally, he had to count on both skepticism and resistance when he reached a point where he was able to present the result of his work to the public - even to the point of hostility and persecution as he confronted a number of creeds and dogmas within the existing ideas on reality both directly and indirectly. Yet things went well, and the obstacles were successfully conquered, partly because he used two different means of presentation which supplied each other - one based on the language and another based on a special symbol technique which he developed himself. Martinus had a highly developed working capacity and almost unlimited energy.

With four hours of sleep as his usual norm, his working day started at four o'clock in the morning, and for many years it lasted until finally he got tired late in the evening. As the result of his efforts; Martinus could look back on a life work at the end of his life which consists of ca. 40 smaller and larger books and more than 100 coloured symbols and numerous lectures, courses and articles, plus a very large number of conversations with people who either sought his advice for personal problems or who were just interested in discussing the contents and details of his world picture with him. In the same way, the author owes Martinus for many hours of personal education throughout the most of a decade. Martinus died at the 8th of March 1981 at the age of almost 91 years. Before then he had given all his rights and belongings to a self-owned institution which carries his name today

Martinus was often contacted by people who wished to develop a better and more spiritual character, but were at a loss about how and where to start. As a consequence, he took upon himself to formulate an answer which is formed as a practical guide in how to practice love. His guidance is as follows:

Martinus’ advice on character development:

1. Remove the concept of “enemies” from your consciousness.

2. Never retort to anger, slander or other forms of attacks which are directed against you.

3. Never say anything evil about anyone or anything.

4. Be absolutely true and honest under all circumstances in life.

5. Remain absolutely untouched by flatter, praise or blame.

6. Never participate in killing, hurting or maiming of living creatures.

7. Never let your thoughts move away from working on how you may best serve your fellow beings; thus you do the highest form of yoga or the perfect training of the part of your development which is within the reach of your will and which in connection with the other inputs of life to your nature will finally lead you to ethical genius and transform you into a perfect being or “divine human being”.

Martinus’ prophesies for the future:

Many people would be skeptic about many of the ideas and conclusions presented above, and therefore it should also be mentioned that Martinus recommended people to retain a healthy skepticism and a critical attitude towards the work he had presented. Thus, he said on several occasions that nobody should feel obliged to believe blindly in any of what he had said or written, but if his ideas had caught your attention, you should investigate closely if he was right and let nature and the universe," The book of Life” be the judge.

Therefore it could be interesting to look for a short moment on a number of prophesies about the future which Martinus gave both orally and in the written word, as early as 1932, prophesies which seemed totally absurd and far-fetched at that time, but which nevertheless are close to being fulfilled by now.

1. We would develop an automatised ability to calculate which would make us able to undertake practically any form of calculation we wanted at lightning speed, almost regardless of its complexity...With our knowledge of the modern computer technology we can see, that this prophesy has long ago been fulfilled.

2. We would develop a technology which would make us unemployed at first, but later on give us freedom and spare time which could be the basis of a future acceleration of the moral and spirit of the individual. In other words, the future would manifest a spare-time society of an impressive standard - both materially and spiritually.---- As we all know, the first part of this prophesy is already manifesting, and everything speaks for the other part to become true, sooner or later.

3. Our society would move away from the use of money as we know it. In stead, personal payment cards would be used which can transmit payment for goods and merchandises all around the globe. In other words, the future society would be a money-less society.---Also here, the present situation speaks for the truth of Martinus’ visions. (Credit cards)

4. The future technology would end up being controlled by people’s thoughts through the use of the impulses in the brain which accompany human thinking.---With the so-called “eye-mark technology” we have come a step in the direction of the fulfillment of this prophesy, even if direct thought control has not been achieved yet.

5. People would realize that the planet is a living being of macro-cosmic dimensions.---With James Lovelock’s Gaia hypothesis, this part of the fulfillment of Martinus’ prophesy has also begun.

6. People would realize that there are other physical universes than our own, a sort of parallel universes with which we are able to exchange both matter, energy and information under special circumstances. The newest research within quantum physics and theoretical physics has begun to make conclusions about the existence of such parallel universes.

7. We would make a number of discoveries and inventions which would make us able to tap energy in unlimited amounts from the so-called empty space. In reality, it is a reservoir of energy, which can be tapped by the use of a simple antenna.--Also here, there’s a development under way within the area of modern physics. Amongst other things quantum mechanical calculations have shown that one cubic centimetre of so-called empty space contains such an amount of energy that it exceeds the amount of energy of the sum total of all the galaxies of the universe. The problem here is just how to get to use it.

On the basis of those partly fulfilled prophesies I will mention another three which to my knowledge have neither been fully nor partially fulfilled, but which are nevertheless very interesting.

8. As a sort of pre-stage to the total control of telepathy we would invent a technology which would enable us under certain conditions to induce impulses directly into the brain of the individual and on the basis of this give him/her a certain experience. One stage in this development would be a sort of TV helmet which transformed radio- and TV signals into relevant b rain processes with the related experiences etc, so that external devices for reception (monitors, screens) became superfluous.---This statement was given by Martinus to the author in the beginning of the sixties, and as far as I know there have been no confirmations apart from the fact that some scientists work earnestly on ideas of this kind as a result of the new and very intense brain research which is going on.

9. We would learn to control a technology which would enable us to de-materialize and re-materialize physical matter and on the basis of this to move it from place to place without noticeable costs. In fact, the transportation system of the future. Well, this technology would even become so refined and perfected, that finally we would be able ourselves to control it through pure thinking. And it would be used on both organic and in-organic materials - both living and dead things.---The only sign of the development of such a technology is the beaming visions of the science-fiction literature. But it has happened before that this literature has predicted later developments in reality, for instance in the case of Jules Verne

10. Within the coming 3,000 years the true human kingdom would be a reality on the Earth and the majority of people have reached a stage of cosmic consciousness through the Great Birth. The first examples of the fulfillment of the cosmic birth would show themselves within the coming two centuries, and hereafter it would become a more and more common phenomena.---This, I assume, is the prophesy by Martinus which has been the least confirmed (apart from the postulates about the new form of sexuality which is on its way), but there is still time to go - so who knows? Under all circumstances the cosmic world picture - both with and without its prophesies - must be regarded as a remarkable creation by a person with a background such as that of Martinus - or for that matter, regardless of his background.

Holism in the cosmology of Martinus

Holism as a way of thinking and understanding the universe is becoming more and more popular within science, advocating the ideas that “everything is related to everything”, “you can’t change a part of a system without changing the whole system” and showing people who everything in the universe is interrelated on many different levels. Not surprisingly, Martinus’ Cosmology, which, according to himself, would help in the process of uniting spiritual and natural science, religion and philosophy, is also a holistic cosmology which describes the interrelations between the different life units or elements in the universe, and the laws these relations follow. Martinus describes how the universe itself is a living being, which in its turn is  composed of other living beings which are made up of other living beings and so continuing in infinity. The sum total of all these living beings he calls God, and this divine being is all there exists. The symbol below illustrates this principle - the triangles are life units, and the circles surrounding the triangles are their organisms, and we see how the symbol allows for an infinite number of triangles to exist within the first circle which illustrates the Deity.

As illustrated above, the universe is composed of living beings within living beings within living beings - something which we can easily see. Cells form part of organs which form parts of organisms (such as our physical body9 which again live on planets, and planets are connected to a solar system, itself a part of a galaxy which exists within a universe.

Martinus explains that there are seven primal principles for the manifestation of a living being:

1. The elementary particle.

2. The cell.

3. The organ.

4. The organism (for instance a human body).

5. The planet.

6. The solar system.

7. The galaxy.

And number 8, the universe, in its turn, it an elementary particle within a larger cell, so that the musical scale is a reflection of this universal principle of creation. This is elegantly explained with the following picture:

More information about Martinus’ Cosmology can be found by inquiring to:

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Click below to read Martinus' own words about the new world economy: 
Martinus on World Economy 

Click below to read a thorough analysis of the future world economy
on the basis of Martinus' Cosmology:  Future World Economy

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