Martinus, A Danish Prophet

Martinus Thomsen was born on the 11th of August 1890 as the natural son of a woman who never disclosed the name of his father. He grew up with his foster parents on a small farm, and never had any education except for elementary school.

As he did not have the financial funds to become a school teacher, which was his wish as a young man, he became a farm hand, a dairy worker, a steward, an office clerk, a postman, etc., etc. as chance would have it. He himself felt that all of these rather different kinds of jobs gave him insight into various areas of life - and that that was what life was about to him.

In 1921, when he was 31 years old, he had a vision, or an enlightening experience on an undisclosed day in the month of March. Some would call it a dream and others may see it as a hallucination, but to him, it was his cosmic baptism. The event was as follows: He was sitting alone, focusing on God, when all of a sudden he had what he himself called "a divine calling". Somehow special information was disclosed to him from somewhere: He was told to use his intuition to explain the cosmic truth which not even Jesus had been able to disclose to his fellow men, namely for the lack of scientific knowledge of his times.

Everything which Martinus said or wrote - and that was a lot - he considered a follow-up to the Bible. However, his sayings or writings differed so much from the Christian scripts that in reality he has written something which may be called "a new Bible". As to his earth shaking experience in 1921 he always claimed that it had the bearings of a cosmic vision: "The vision of Christ that I experienced was not a dream or a hallucination, but a fully awake, day-conscious cosmic experience, and it contained a distinct declaration of a mission that I was to carry out." From that moment he really was on a mission, never to return to the path of the ordinary church teachings. To him, his mission was the obligation to show people God and to teach them about the divine mission of Jesus as he saw it.

He had - and still has - many followers, and today they connect in the Martinus Institute where they discuss his many works and his "Cosmology" which reads that the Universe is an all-embracing and living organism. We are here on this planet solely for the experience of life itself, which is supposed to develop and refine us over time when we have been born and reincarnated many, many times. In the end we shall have refined all senses and also have developed new instincts and new abilities. However, Martinus is not widely known outside of Scandinavia, even though he has published many books like e.g. his main work "The Book of Life" which is also called "The Third Testament".  

 

When he died he was put to rest in a rich mausoleum and this kind of burial outraged some people who thought that he had grown haughty and tried to put himself out to be more exalted than everyone else. Those people can't have been very familiar with his teachings, as his reason for this luxurious burial place was his belief that humans hold an obligation toward all the small animal organisms that live in our bodies and which should have time to find other lodgings, so to speak. To him, we are all part of the Cosmos as such, but we also constitute a Cosmos to other living creatures.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martinus_Thomsen