OPENING SPEECH – COSMIC MUSEUM GOOD FRIDAY 2024:
What is this museum, and what is the purpose of the exhibition "Window to Eternity"?
We have the science of the physical world, of all the chemical elements and physical laws. It is not something that scientists have invented, but something they have arrived at by studying nature. Nature is their teacher, the professors' professors and the supreme authority. If a statement does not agree with nature, then it is simply not true. All the pioneers of science have been humble before this supreme "teacher". How could they have discovered anything new without their openness to nature? For these pioneers, research was not about reading physical books, but about reading in the book of life itself. These pioneers impartially adhered to what was confirmed by life itself. We can like the laws of nature or not. If I jump off the balcony, I will hurt myself. It is not the law of gravity's mistake but my choice. You can use the laws of nature to make bombs and create suffering. It is not the fault of the laws of nature. They are morally neutral, so to speak.
So what's missing?
Shouldn't the answer be that what is missing is to use science so that it becomes a blessing only? And don't we also need to scientificize the spiritual area of life? We lack an explanation of what "life" is. We have not been given an explanation for the ever-changing miracle of nature. Why does it come in the spring? One could of course answer that it is due to the movement of the globe around the sun, but that is just the physical reason. Why does the globe actually revolve around the sun year after year, so that we can live and have such a good time here? Why the flowers, the birds and the fruits? Why did the globe develop from a glowing lump of lava, floating in the sky, into a paradise where, surrounded by the foliage of the trees against a backdrop of waves crashing and sunsets, or the music of Mozart and Chopin, we let ourselves be carried forward. Does the path to today seem like a coincidence? Can "Survival of the fittest" explain the love that constantly supplies us with nourishment for soul and body?
Science is not perfect. What can science offer an unhappy person who has just lost a partner or a child? It cannot show the way back to happiness, and it cannot explain why one should not kill. Indeed, is it not rather the case today that science constantly offers new and more dangerous weapons to those who still want to wage war? Science has also not given us an explanation for the miracles of life, let alone its details of darkness and suffering. Neither have religions. The problem of “evil” was not answered. The answer has been “his ways are unsearchable,” as it says in Romans (11:33).
Religions gave us dogmatic instructions on how to live and what not to do, yes, but without an explanation that could be checked with our own logic and confirmed by our own experiences. To those who observed the course of life, it often seemed almost as if it were worth lying, deceiving, and killing. "Their hearts grew cold," as it is written.
Martinus could see straight into eternity!
But now there is an explanation that everyone can check in their own "book" of life. An explanation that matches our own logic and our own experiences; a spiritual science! This naturally raises a question: Who can know anything about this, who can speak about the spiritual aspects of life with scientific authority? Who can see through matter into eternity, just as we can see the sun?
Martinus could. Without education and prior knowledge, the cosmic world opened up to Martinus at Easter 103 years ago. It is up to us to examine the “evidence” that he left behind. The cosmic symbols and analyses are the fruits of Martinus’ cosmic “vision” and “initiation” in 1921. These are the ones we can control in relation to our abilities. Martinus calls his work, The Third Testament, “spiritual science”. It is no longer about faith or sects. The future rests in the hands of absolutely free spiritual researchers. Our destiny rests only in our own hands. What we do, or do not do, only comes upon ourselves - cosmically speaking. You do not have to believe in the law of destiny; “you reap as you sow”. It does not change depending on what we believe.
It became Martinus' task to explain how all this is connected. With his new boundless sensory ability, intuition, completely under conscious control, he could see that we all really "reap" as we "sow", both here and now, and from life to life. That is, through "reincarnation", although Martinus did not use this word in his first work. Martinus wrote what he saw in life himself. Hence the name of his main work: "Livets Bog". He did not get it from other people's books, and he did not fantasize. He described the cosmic reality as he saw it and he therefore had to find his own words for what he saw.
Martinus saw the chain of cause and effect that some are born into health and others into war and disease. Everything that makes no sense in a "one life perspective" looks different in a "multiple lives perspective". Without multiple lives there can be no meaning to the enormous differences we witness, in which case the meaning would be diabolical.
But since death does not exist, and we live on after every so-called "death", enriched by all our experiences, reality looks completely different in the "cosmic perspective". In the eternal worldview, "darkness" is only a short period of contrast that we all have to go through to learn to distinguish between what is logical and what is illogical, "evil" and "good". If we were not allowed to experience pain and suffering, we would continue to hurt and kill ourselves. We would thus never escape the states of darkness.
The Earth as a School for Moral Education
With his cosmic vision, Martinus saw the Earth as a “school” where the intelligent animal “earth man” learns what not to do. The Bible says that Adam and Eve ate from the fruit of ”the tree of knowledge”, and that the “serpent” promised them that this would open their eyes so that they could “become like God, knowing good and evil.” (Genesis 3:5) There is thus scientific truth in the old words. It is no less brilliant that the words speak to both the believer and the one who can analyze them with intelligence.
Yes, “Adam” and “Eve,” that is, humans, have ”eaten and eaten”, and today all these experiences of suffering and mistakes have given them new “eyes.” They are about to discover everything that is evil. Adam and Eve stand today at a new threshold. They stand at the promised threshold of eternity. The “eternal life” that was promised to them is not something that can be inherited; that would be illogical. But it takes intuition to experience that one is actually eternal.
The eternal worldview of a Third Testament explains why evolution is not over. Once upon a time, the plant stood on the threshold of becoming an animal; the carnivorous plant, and today we are on the transition from animals to becoming humans. The Sphinx in the Egyptian desert, its animal body and human head, symbolizes ourselves. We are half animal and half human. This explains both suffering and the future. According to Martinus, we are in a forced development that must cleanse the selfishness we carry with us from the animal kingdom. The “killing principle” which is a habit from the animal kingdom is what prevents us from experiencing the human condition. Selfishness is thus the root of “evil”. It is the “beast” in the revelation.
All "good" things also have roots. Our empathy is our "heritage" of suffering we have been through. "Compassion" bears witness to the suffering we ourselves have been through in past lives. The pacifist was once a great warrior. He has killed, and was himself killed, many times, until he understood that he should not kill anyone. He gained new human longings and desires and can in time begin to enjoy the fruits of the "tree of life".
Man has thus never succeeded in exterminating his enemies by killing them. Martinus explains that one cannot kill anything but their body. It is created, but the eternal self behind the body is completely invulnerable and will be reborn. This is the explanation why the killing principle does not function as a solution. On the contrary. When we kill, we are in reality entangled in karmic ties with those we pursue. The “Norns” spin on.