First of all I would like to bid you all a really warm welcome this evening, and to convey with all my heart my very deepest and sincerest thanks for the interest, trust and love that you have shown in my work. I have received enormous thanks from all of you, but I am in fact not the person you should be thanking. What I have explained are eternal realities that were in existence before I explained them. I have been merely the tool that has presented them to human beings. I bring them in fact directly from Christ himself, thanks to some cosmic experiences that have caused me also to be able to relate what has taken place.

So what is "the Comforter, the Holy Spirit"? – It is a science that will be delivered to human beings. This science is the Holy Spirit. Spirit is knowledge, facts and experience that one can acquire. In other words, spirit is consciousness. A science will come into being in the world that will teach human beings what Christ could not tell them, since they would not have been able to understand it. It was announced that it would come at a later date, and that time has now come.

There are many people who say to me: "Why does there have to be so much darkness in the world? It cannot possibly point towards the existence of a God." – But it in fact points to the fact that a God does exist. We have to leave behind everything to do with the "devil", "Hell" etc. These things were told to human beings that lacked the intellectuality or intelligence with which to understand. They had to be told in a way that people say to little children: "If you are not good, the bogeyman will come and get you!" – They were told: "If you are not good, you will end up in Hell!" – That is what I learnt in my confirmation classes. In addition the clergyman said that children that had not been baptised would go straight to Hell. He also said that there would always be a curse on children born out of wedlock. But in my case it has been a good "curse"; I have always been quite happy to have been born out of wedlock. (A burst of laughter from the audience)

The greatest saying in the Bible is that in which God says: "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness". That is the most important saying, and that is what is happening in the world. Is not the world in an enormous state of movement? – Science states that everything is vibration and movement. But we can see very little of it. Much looks as if it is solid material, but if we magnified it we would be able to see that it consists of movements. These movements prove to be logical. We can see that the whole world is built up logically, and this proves that there is a creative consciousness behind the whole. Everywhere there is creation, and we can see that this creation is immensely logical and perfect. Are not our eyes extremely perfect? – Is not our respiratory system brilliantly perfect, as long as we do not destroy it? – Is it not extremely logical that our "sewer" is placed at the opposite end of our body to our sense of smell? – There is logic everywhere!

Human beings have been told in the Bible and from the prophets that they should cease doing evil, but this is precisely what they could not do. Darkness has to become the kind of knowledge that they have experienced themselves, and this takes many lives. What can human beings learn in one life, if they can die at birth, or when they are two, five, ten or thirty years old, or if they can die at any age? – Are these people that die early in their lives excluded from being saved, as the saying goes? Do they end up on the rubbish heap? – Where do they go? – They do not have time to learn how to love their neighbour. But it just goes to show that one single life is nothing more than the lifetime of a tool. Our physical bodies are our tools.

If one takes a look at the world today, one can see that it has sunk into what I call "reverse logic". So what is reverse logic? – Well, human beings are constructing great logical plans, and building, for example, atomic power stations that later prove to be extremely destructive. The universe exists according to a certain logic and everything will arrive at the stage of being in harmony with it. This logic is universal love. But when one goes in the opposite direction and constructs a long, logical chain of thought that ends in trouble and suffering for human beings, I call this reverse logic. This logic does not endure when it comes into contact with world logic; at this point the thief or the murderer will be found out. Everything, your own life included, will arrive at its conclusion in world logic.

You are at present experiencing a terrestrial life in which you do not have the whole of your consciousness to the fore. You have only that particular part to the fore that is to be developed with the help of karma. You have karma from previous lives and you have new things you have to learn in this life. But there is of course a lovely place on the spiritual plane where you go between lives. Human beings will not arrive at the true, great, divine world kingdom, which Christ calls "the kingdom of God", until they have gained Christ consciousness or when they have become Christ-beings. It will take many lives for human beings to attain Christ consciousness, because they will have to be able to allow themselves, like Christ, to be crucified and pray for their enemies. In the midst of the sufferings that their enemies have inflicted on them they will have to be able to pray for these enemies, not just by going through the motions, but they have to feel deep down: "if only they could be freed from having to be punished". – That is what Christ had to demonstrate on the cross. He demonstrated what will now become the enduring culture. A new world-culture, the Christian world-culture, is now beginning to develop. It has of course been founded on Christian dogmas, but it is now appearing for the first time in its true form.

There will be a great Armageddon and this will mean that now will be the time for retribution. People will begin to realise that this Armageddon will give confirmation to the Holy Spirit. It will show that defence is mankind's greatest curse. People have believed that they could save themselves using defensive tactics, and they are competing in a race to make defence as vile, as painful, as devilish and as destructive as possible. And one cannot blame them, it is in their nature to do so. But it has become their most serious affliction, and it is right that it should be so. Things have now reached the stage when there will be a release of pent-up tension, an Armageddon. It has already begun with the world wars we have already experienced, and it will continue. I don't know when it will happen, but I have always been of the opinion that it would perhaps be around the turn of the century, but it could be sooner, or it could be later. There will be many violent, powerful explosions and much destruction. But the divine consciousness will also set in motion very great forces in order to help human beings.

It will be the case that both cosmic as well as physical science will affirm that one should not be spiteful or jealous, and that one should not kill, murder or wage war. One should forgive over and over and over again. But this new world culture cannot begin by telling people: "You should accept everything as it is". – That is not possible, even though that will be the slogan in the future. Human beings will gradually begin to strive after learning to forgive instead of defending themselves against their enemies. That is the greatest victory of all, and one will then be following world logic, one will then be growing towards acquiring power and strength.

Universal love is a divine state. It is not the kind of love that finds expression in the act of mating in animals and unfinished human beings. It is the revelation of God in the primitive stages, for how else could God reveal himself there? –

Evolution comes at the cost of many bodies, just look how many bodies are being destroyed, particularly today. Is it not an everyday event that they are shot down? – Can we not read in the newspapers about violent killings, murders and executions, and bombs being thrown into the midst of people in the streets? – It costs many lives or bodies to evolve into "God's image".

The reason that human beings are at present going through so many unpleasant things and experiencing such awful lives is because it is their karma. They have to go through a certain amount in order to understand what they should and what they should not do. It is therefore a very good thing that their lives are interrupted so that human beings can have, between their lives, a lovely experience on the spiritual plane. On the spiritual plane one cannot evolve, because there one does not have to work for one's food. There one can amuse oneself with one's talents and one's memories. There one can construct things in spiritual matter that obeys thought. One cannot do that on the physical plane; there one has to plane, saw, and hammer in order to create. Whatever one has learnt on the physical plane one can give free expression to on the spiritual plane.

There is no need to be afraid of dying. Even though many human beings have done various things wrong, they will be met by guardian angels in a threshold existence. They still see themselves with bodies and everything else. They think that they are physical, and do not know that they are on the spiritual plane. Some of them are very angry: "Mind your own business! I can manage it myself!" – It is from this plane that beings possess human beings on the awake plane. Those who have died and who are in this threshold stage can possess human beings who are alcoholics or drug addicts, or who are abnormal or sexually derailed.

To the extent that one evolves on the earthly plane, one will enter higher and higher environments on the spiritual plane when one dies. Eventually one will enter the final plane, where one has cosmic consciousness and where one no longer needs to be born of a woman. But already before that, one will begin to come into the world through materialisation and to leave it through dematerialisation. But human beings still have quite some way to go before that can happen.

In my books I have done away with the term "death". We must leave behind everything to do with death, because there is no sense in having a word for something that does not exist. And death does not exist. We are merely talking about a transition from the plane of physical work to the spiritual plane.

You can rest assured there is no death. You do not need to be afraid. There will be a great Armageddon, but when that happens you will have the possibility of directing your thoughts towards the Godhead. When there is something you do not understand or that you would like help with, you will gain enormous strength by sending your thoughts to the Godhead.

In using atomic power the world is doing something wrong, and this wrong will have to be put right by higher powers. We have split the atom and we should never have done that. In doing so we have begun to sabotage the Earth. The Earth has in fact become "micro-ill", that is to say, ill within itself. Quite apart from the violent explosions, the killing and the destruction of towns, it is becoming apparent that the forces at our disposal are intensely awful, destructive and deadly. There is a surplus of material that cannot pass over into Nature's cycles. The Earth is a living organism, just like us. Everything within us has to pass over into the cycle, to become excrement, sweat etc. Human beings have caused a restriction and the powerful radiation from atomic power is bursting out.

Atomic power is so colossal, simply so gigantic in relation to a human being's power! – This power is an ability that bestows life and is healing to the Earth. It is "macrocosmic life-force". We have something similar in us that I call "mesocosmic life-force".

Human beings are going on building more and more atomic power stations. They think that they can manage them themselves, but spiritual beings now have to be there helping. Human beings do not understand that they will have access to a new source of energy that is analogous to the heartbeat. We each get our energy from our heart. But what is it that causes our heart to beat? – It is fire and coldness. That is why we have a temperature of 37 degrees. It is in the balance between fire and coldness that an energy can arise. If one can bring fire and coldness into this kind of a harmonious balance, one can create a new source of energy. It can work with ice and water. But I cannot give any more details, I myself have not studied these matters. But intuitively I have seen that this can be the energy source of the future. Why should not human beings also be able to discover the energy that the heart has? –

Human beings are at present in Armageddon, even though there are pauses without war. We live in a beautiful area. Scandinavians and their neighbours live in the best places on Earth. But of course even here we will not be able to completely avoid the effects of war. There will be war and it will cause the world to become international with a common sovereignty. The world has already become extremely international as a result of human beings doing business, exporting and importing, and this is also what God intended. It is God's plan that we should become one world. Human beings can put up a struggle, but it will make no difference.

Human beings are very busy doing a great many exercises, yoga etc., in order to gain higher consciousness. One certainly has to acknowledge that this is also a part of God, but it cannot lead you to cosmic consciousness. It is actually very simple, it is a question of forgiving your neighbour. That is the highest and most effective form of yoga that exists. It really causes something to happen. You cannot work with this state for very long without noticing how people begin to love you. One has to get people to love you, or to like you. And this I have done by always being fond of people, even before I gained this spiritual consciousness.

This cause is not meant to be some kind of association or sect. It is not something one can become a member of or resign from. There are no laws that say: "This is what you should do, and this is what you should not do!" – That is not how things are. This is your own cause. So in that sense, it is not my cause, even though I have created it and taken charge of it. With God's help I have created a cause for you, and you can join in or leave, you can read the books if you want to or you can give up reading them. If people have something that they find more inspiring, they can be involved in that. And if they are in a sect and that feels comfortable to them, they should go on being there. There is time enough in life. There may come a time when they want to move onto something different. There is no need to hurry them, and there is no need to give out propaganda. But if they approach you and ask for advice and guidance, you should of course be friendly and help them.

But as I have said, the quickest or most truly effective way is to begin to consider: "Are there any people who I don't like? – Are there any people who I bear a grudge against?" – And learn how to think of these people in a friendly way, and also think in a friendly way of those people who do not like you. The road to the eternal light goes through loving the very people you don't like. It is not difficult for us to like the people that like us. But it is the people that don't like us that we should be fond of. This will bring the darkness in the world to an end. One cannot get rid of all the evil using defence and revenge. When a man has committed a murder he is put to death by the state. Two murders have then been committed, and that is the state of affairs wherever we look. One murder is avenged with another, and so it goes on. Human beings are doing harm, and the world is being transformed into an Armageddon. This Armageddon has now reached such proportions that people cannot avoid seeing that defence is the greatest curse and calamity for human beings, and consequently they want to take steps to create a Christ-culture. This culture will now come forward out of the darkness where it has been for a long time, even though it is already functioning to a colossal extent over the whole world. But you can experience a sense of it, and in that respect you can receive enormous help by praying to God. Even though you don't believe in prayer, pray anyway. The beings that hear the prayer are not so small-minded that they say: "Please get down on your knees before the mighty God." – No, God is not vain. God is not a slave-driver as some people believe. Neither is it through grace that we achieve forgiveness or salvation. Each of us has to develop his or her own cosmic consciousness. Such a consciousness cannot be given to people through grace. Why should one give anything through grace? – God would then have to have slaves. No, it stems from the fact that in the old days the lower classes were slaves of the great magnates, who through mercy or grace could free them from punishment. But there is no place for that in the modern, intellectual, Christian world.

So that is what I have been able to say a bit about. But you will be able to read about it in the book, "The Third Testament". [Intellectualised Christianity, posthumous manuscripts, Borgen 2004, not yet available in English]. – In fact, all the books will be called "The Third Testament", but in this new book I have had to write such important analyses that I am not blind to the fact that I am now putting your scepticism to such a hard test that it could prove to be the road to my crucifixion, were it not for the fact that God has another plan for me. [At this point Martinus was visibly moved]. But God has such a plan. Things are so cleverly arranged that there is no one that can strike me. When I have finished my work I will not be on this plane. But I will be here, I will still be among you, but not in a visible form. I will be just as much among you, even though I will not be in my body. This cause has been entrusted to me, but not to me alone, Christ and other Christ-beings in God's primary consciousness are of course behind it. I am well aware of that.