Martinus blog

Martinus has written more than 6000 pages in books and articles and held hundreds of lectures. This post deals with how to approach his literature and a bit what he has published.

Where to start
People come to Martinus’ work from many places and the roads to his work can be very different. Likevise, there is no specific place where you should start your reading. Some people, like myself, starts out with Livets Bog. Others starts with the articles or goes to lectures. I have met people who has known Martinus’ work for 50 years without reading a word in Livets Bog and that is completely ok. Martinus has a saying in the introduction to Livets Bog where he states that you are free to take what you want from his work and leave the rest. So, at least from Martinus himself, you a completely free to basically do what you feel is the right thing to do. What Martinus provides is guidelines, explanations and insights. If you understand them at some level you can use them or leave them. That’s being tolerant on how other people live their lifes

It takes a long time to read it all and most of it has a depth that can be hard to craps the first time it is read. The same piece of writing can be a very different experience when it is read an extra time. Not because the writing has changed, but because the reader, that could be you, has changed. That’s what makes Martinus’ work inspiring to many people.

Martinus main piece is the Book of Life (“Livets Bog”) in seven volumes. Martinus preferred for some reason that the Book of Life should keep its Danish title “Livets Bog” in all languages.

The Book of Life
The Book of Life contains the foundation of Martinus world picture and provides the major and in-depth analysis and arguments.

Other works by Martinus
The Eternal World picture in 4 volumes provides an overview of the World Picture and is not as in-depth as Livets Bog. DEV 1-4 is a good introduction to Martinus’ world picture.

Martinus also wrote many articles and unfinished lecture manuscript. This work is more related to daily subjects such as guidelines on what to eat, stress issues, marriage, and so forth.

When that is said, a good place to start is the Eternal World Picture or the articles because they are easy to digest. But it is really up to where to start or if you want to start at all

Online ressources
Martinus’ work is published by the Martinus Institute in Copenhagen. Recently, Martinus Institute started publishing Martinus’ literature online, so you can read most of it online and free on the Martinus Institute homepage. See more about Martinus online ressource here.

This post contains some of the main sources to the work by Martinus that can be found online. Alot of progress has been made within the last few years on getting information about Martinus and his work online. The following sections describe some of them.

The Martinus Institute
The Martinus Instiute is founded by Martinus. The Martinus Institute…

“… is a non-profit-making institution, which is responsible for Martinus’ entire body of spiritually scientific work. In brief this involves the Institute being responsible for preserving, translating and publishing Martinus’ collected works, The Third Testament. We are also obliged to provide information about these works and to teach the world picture they contain.
(from martinus.dk)

The homepage of the Martinus Institute got a major upgrade in 2009 with new content about Martinus and his World Picture, new layout and many other things. The homepage is published in several languages and more will come as the content is translated. The homepage can be found here: http://www.martinus.dk/en

Bookshop
The Martinus Institute is publishing and selling the books written by Martinus. In 2009, the Martinus Institute got an internet bookshop where the books in different languages can be bought. By the introduction of the online bookshop, it is now easier and cheaper to get the books for people around the world. See shop.martinus.dk.

Notice that the Martinus Institute gives discount to several contries.

Martinus’ work online
The translated works of Martinus is published online by the Martinus Institute (the copyright owners). It is possible to read the translated part of Martinus’ main piece “Livets Bog” (“The Book of Life” and search in it. You can find it here: http://www.martinus.dk/en/ttt/

At the moment the read-and-search function covers the following books and volumes: Livets Bog (The Book of Life) 1, 2 and 4 and The Eternal World Picture 2.

Martinusforum.dk
Martinus forum is a homepage with a discussion forum, articles, introduction to Martinus Cosmology and news related to Martinus’ work. So far most of the activity is in the Scandinavian languages.

Martinus has described an eternal world picture in several books and articles. His main piece is “Livets Bog” (The Book of Life) in 7 volumes. The world picture has many aspects so this brief introduction should only be seen as a teaser for further study of Martinus’ work.

Martinus describes an eternal world picture. The world picture is eternal in the sense that it applies now, in the time that has passed and the time that will come. Is has never started or ended. It is eternal. Furthermore, the description applies everywhere. In the small and in the big details. Therefore, this world picture is not invented by Martinus. The work done by Martinus was to describe the eternal world picture in order to enable us to understand the world we are living in and our current situation.

A central aspect of our current situation is to understand what we are as living beings. Martinus states that we are eternal living beings. In this eternal life we “bounce” back and forth from periods of “good” or pleasent life and “bad” and unpleasent life in order to experience contrasts. Our experience of life is based on contrast so without this movement back and forth between pleasent and unpleasent, good and bad, light and darkness, there would be no contrast and no life experience. We could not exits at all. Martinus call this the contrast principle. This principle applies to all things we experience, like colors, sound, love, hunger, thoughts, etc. Due to the fact that we need the contrast to renew our experience of life even the “bad” things become a good thing for us in the long run. Locally it is unpleasent and might seem not to have a purpose. But overall it is a good, so “everything is very good”.

According to Martinus, the movement between pleasure and unpleasure takes place over millions of years, so our daily experience and even a human life is only very small fragments in the gigantic change we undergo as living beings. The materialistic point of view is that our lives begins when we physical life starts and ends when we die. Martinus states that our lives has never started. He stated that before we were born we lived in a spiritual world with a spiritual or mental body bearing our consciousness and will return to this “world” or state after we die. For a long period of time we alter between living  in the physical world to life in the spiritual world. We call this reincarnation. Martinus states that reincarnation is a necessity in order to renew our physical bodies. Understanding the eternal life and reincarnation is an important part of the road to understand the mystery of life.

Martinus also states that we are not only going back and forth between light and dark, but during these periods the living being is developed through its experience to experience on a higher level of life. Therefore the living being do experience a higher and higher way of living and the movement between pleasure and unpleasure becomes a widening spiral.

Symbols
Martinus has made 44 published symbols. The symbols shows important aspects of his world picture. The following symbol, “The cosmic spiral circle”, shows how the living being is living in a spiral as described above. The colors shows different states the living being goes through in one round trip in the circle. The states will be explained in another post on this blog.

“The cosmic spiral circle” by Martinus. Copyright Martinus Institut.

The current world situation
Right now the human race is experiencing the last part of the unpleasent part of a round in the spiral. The human being are going from a state where it does not fundamentally understand what it is and what is going on around it. Questions like: Why do we have wars? What is the purpose of life? Why is my life sometime unpleasent? These are questions to which we lack a real logical explanation. The churches has preached faith in God for many years but it does not work for a modern critical thinker who needs logical explanations to satisfy his developing intelligence. Martinus provides logical answers to many of such questions by providing us a logical world view.