Martinus went to Sweden early on. His first lectures there were given in Malmö before the Second World War, and both Martinus himself and Erik Gerner Larsson over the years undertook many lecture tours in Sweden, where the work was gradually extended to include a number of towns in the southern half of the country. In Stockholm a Martinus Institute was established early on by Sigge Westerlund and his mother, who had both become very interested in Martinus Cosmology. Later Mogens Møller did many years' work lecturing in Sweden and the rest of Scandinavia until his death in 1980.

Martinus visited England in 1969.

In addition a weekend course was arranged in a centre at Bourne End lent by the Unity Movement. Martinus also found time for sightseeing in London and for a trip to Stonehenge (also in the south of England). He was very taken by this remarkable structure and told us here that it, like the pyramids in Egypt, had been built by spiritual forces, by dematerialisation of the stones (of up to 20 tons each) and by rematerialisation of them, so that they were placed precisely.

On his journeys abroad Martinus spoke only Danish and never learned any other language. He made himself understood through interpreters. His writing and lectures therefore naturally took place first and foremost in Denmark. One of the reasons why he was born in Denmark could perhaps be that Danish is spoken by so few people that he could remain quite unknown to the rest of the world. Another reason for this, he said jokingly, could be "that the Danes were so advanced - in degeneration".

Martinus himself wrote accounts of his journeys to Iceland and his journey to the East. In addition, every day over many years he wrote diaries about his experiences. I would think that there are about thirty such books with short notes that would certainly be very useful when, at some time in the future, historians research into Martinus' life.

For a long time Martinus had wanted the ownership of the money and the buildings that the cause owned, and which were in his name as his own private property, to be changed so that his institute and cause could be turned into a non-profit-making institution. It was, however, very expensive to arrange this change of ownership.

But while Martinus was a patient at Lukasstiftelsen (the St. Luke Institute) a good friend of his - the day before he was to be operated on - brought him the good news that another good friend would pay whatever it would cost to make the institute a non-profit-making institution. Such an institution had to have a governing body; and a lawyer by the name of Eigil Hansen, who had been interested in Martinus' cause for a long time, was co-opted as a member of the board. In 1965, when Erik Gerner Larsson moved from the institute to live in Villa Rosenberg at Klint and could no longer take part in the work of the board, two new members were co-opted; it was later expanded to consist of six members.

The management of the institute lies in the hands of this board according to resolutions written in the Constitution of the Martinus Institute, which, before Martinus' death, had various changes made to the original rules of the institution. At the same time the term "board" was altered to "council", a change that was probably due to the fact that the management, rather than "governing", should "advise", inspire and stimulate the co-workers and other interested parties.

Martinus had, naturally enough, management principles very different from those one has in the business world, where exploitation and oppression are common. Indeed, in reality the idea of the main principle is the opposite - to give people freedom. As the goal for the unfinished terrestrial human being is to become a "real human being" - to attain cosmic consciousness - and as this is based on self-experienced knowledge as a regulator for the individual's own responsibility and way of being, only complete freedom can provide the possibility for making mistakes and reaping life's corrections. For this reason the individual co-workers never felt any pressure or dictatorship from Martinus, but got an impression of his wishes and of what he found appropriate, as well as his reasons why. Martinus' way of behaving was not "superior", and the council should not - any more than Martinus himself - behave in a "superior" way towards the "subordinate" co-workers. Only the "cosmic analyses" should be "superior", and they were simply a retelling of life's own reality, the speech of life, for those who had ears to hear with and eyes to see with. Everyone should therefore be able to work in freedom, for only in true freedom could a friendship between people unfold and thrive. The present members of the council have the right to continue being on the council as long as they themselves wish, but after that members will be replaced in rotation in a particular order that is laid down in the Constitution of the Institute.

At first there were only eight participants in these meetings, but the number of co-workers grew and the meetings were later moved to the Institute. Martinus continued to participate, and, after practical matters had been dealt with and the individual groups had reported on their activities and problems, Martinus usually gave a short talk in which he dealt in detail with one subject or another that could be relevant and useful for the co-workers. These meetings were later christened the "Thursday Meetings", since they were always held on Thursdays. They have no authority to make decisions, besides what the individual groups can decide within their own area of work, but were first and foremost of value as a forum for information and as a monthly meeting where the co-workers could find inspiration for the work. As long as Martinus lived he was the natural focal point. Here he met his co-workers with a big hug and bade them farewell in the same way. He readily expressed his love for people where he could do so without giving cause for misunderstanding.

So Martinus had a "private life", not in the sense of a hidden life, but a change or variation from work, a change during which he spent many happy, pleasant hours with his co-workers and other friends. After Sam Zinglersen had become the Institute's neighbour he had a fixed evening every week on which he invited Martinus and some friends out, either to the cinema, the theatre, Lorry (A theatre and restaurant in Copenhagen.), Dyrehavsbakken, Tivoli ( Two amusement and entertainment centres.) followed by tea at a restaurant. In the spring and summer they made trips by car in the area around Copenhagen, up along the coast of the Sound to Vedbæk or Hørsholm, to Sjælsø and Jægerhytten or other beautiful places with an inn or restaurant where one could drink tea before returning home. Martinus was also fond of taking a walk in Dyrehaven (The Deer Park) up to Erimitageslot (Hermitage Castle), where he could sit on a bench and look out over the Sound. He enjoyed the beauty of the countryside and would, on such an outing, quote a line of verse: "The forest has a heart for man's pain". He knew that the trees, which represent the energy of instinct, could contribute to creating peace in man's troubled mind, that one could find comfort and harmony in the forest's hall of leaves.

Martinus drove for many years and had in the course of time three different cars, but he stopped driving when he was 75. Sam, Peter Zacho, I myself and others then drove for Martinus. He often visited his friends and acquaintances, the members of the council and many others in their homes. In his last years he spent a weekly evening with Sysse (my wife) and me, just as he also celebrated Christmas Eve with us for the last 15 years, while New Year's Eve was celebrated at Sam's. To both these festive evenings several of Martinus1 friends were invited, and for all of us they became points of light in the row of glorious memories of the time when Martinus lived here on the physical plane. When we speak of "friends" it does not mean that Martinus had favourites. No one could get through him particular advantages over others within his cause. He was quite neutral when such choices had to be made. It was the natural abilities that decided the questions and not friendship. He had thus no greater love for some than for others, though some people came physically closer to him than others. Particularly in his later days, when he wasn't so mobile, he visited friends nearby; he often didn't come alone but with a group of interested people of all ages.

We had of course many questions for Martinus, some more abstract ones but also many in connection with current events and problems. For example, journeys to other planets - we sat and watched television and saw how men circled the moon or walked on its surface. We also discussed "God's will"; how something could be for or against God's will although everything is subject to the creation of God - and we talked about the fighting in Vietnam and so on.

One evening when we were talking about the Vietnam War and we mentioned the nations involved, America, the Soviet Union, China, Vietnam and so on, Martinus listened for a long time to the discussion but said finally: "It is not at all a question of these various nations, it is a question of the formation of experience." The individuals involved were there only to become acquainted with the reality of war, to be killed or disabled in this life and perhaps following lives in order to learn to become averse to war as a means of settling disputes.

It was an enormous privilege and a great inspiration to those who on various occasions had the opportunity to be close to Martinus and observe him and his reactions to other people and events; to see his way of being and behaving in all the difficulties of life as well as in the happy hours; to see him on the rostrum -as so many did - and on festive occasions, in his relation to his co-workers, in hospital or in private and so on. One experienced the practical demonstration of the cosmically conscious being's attitude, his sense of humour - he was easily provoked to laughter - his clear, convincing answers, his tolerance and his continual talk of the necessity of forgiving, which is, as he said "not only the way to health - it is the way to cosmic consciousness".

These are merely a few glimpses of Martinus as a "private man". Others could tell about other lovely, enlivening moments with him.

In his old age his birthday parties were held every year in various places. A couple of years it was celebrated in the Hotel Marina in Vedbæk, one year at Josty in Frederiksberg, at other times in the Engineering Union's hall and in the last years at the Hotel Sheraton. There were usually 400-500 people present, and many speeches were always made. Martinus too made a speech in which he presented the world picture and the development of the world and the individual human being's place in this and his possibilities for development. They were truly festive occasions after which one went home enriched.

John Lynn's speech was as follows: "Good evening, friends! My name is John Lynn from London. On behalf of the English-speaking delegation present here tonight I wish to offer warm greetings and sincere best wishes to Martinus on the occasion of his 90^th birthday.

"My first encounter with Martinus Cosmology was in 1975 when Tage Buch and Mogens Møller were giving a series of lectures in London. Since then I have attended the international study week at Klint for the last five years and had the great honour and privilege of a personal and private meeting with Martinus in the summer of 1978. One of my most treasured memories is his wonderful sense of humour. Martinus is a true master of the wisdom in the tradition of all the great adepts, initiates and spiritual teachers who have visited this planet. Scandinavia has been blessed indeed by the incarnation of such a great soul into this part of the world.

"In the years ahead Martinus' cosmic analyses will act as a light guiding a sick and suffering humanity out of the darkness of gross materialism and false values into the light of the new age of Aquarius and the kingdom of real humanity.

"Thank you, Martinus, for the help and inspiration you have given us all!"

And the speech that I myself gave after this was as follows:

"Today we are having an unusual celebration for an unusual person, the 90^th birthday of someone with cosmic consciousness. For many it can be hard to 'place' someone with cosmic consciousness and all possible characteristics - both positive and negative - have been attached to Martinus. This summer we were asked a somewhat provocative question, which was as follows: 'You who are so intensely interested in Martinus, do you regard his as a Messiah?' To this we answered that Martinus would have been reluctant to be described in this way, but that he, through his works, made it possible for every individual human being to gradually become his own world redeemer, to attain Christ-consciousness himself. But even though Martinus likes neither the term 'prophet' nor 'messiah', one cannot get away from the fact that what 'messiah' stands for, that is 'renewer', really fits him. Has anyone else given such a wealth of new thoughts, a new logically perfect world picture? No! Martinus has, with this world picture, created a 'thought building'. He has placed one logical thought upon another as one places one stone upon another in a building, and soon this thought-building will be accessible to the millions of people in the world.

"During its construction such a building must have something to support it. There have always been people who have given support - not only in the form of money as today and on other occasions - but also in the daily run of things there have been people who have helped and supported in many ways. There have always been supporters, and one could compare them with the scaffolding that has been necessary during construction. And now the building is for all practical purposes finished. The old master builder can see the completion of his work.

"Today we shall hear him speak in public probably for the last time, and when Martinus has written the last full stop it will soon be time for him to leave us. And the supports, the scaffolding will fall bit by bit. Able helpers have already left us, and when the master builder Martinus finally leaves us, the last piece of scaffolding will soon fall too so that the building, all his works, his books, will be taken into use. People of all nations will go in and out of this thought-building and learn, and many purely physical buildings based on this thought-building will be erected, centres and schools all over the planet. And the scaffolding that supported it in the beginning while the building was being erected will be forgotten, but not the master builder. And he won't forget his work either. The master builder Martinus will continue to be among us and follow the evolution of mankind until we ourselves reach the cosmic state and become "the human being in God's image". And Martinus could, like an earlier cosmically conscious being, say, "And behold, I am with you always until the end of the world". He will be with Earth's mankind during its difficult transformation from a world of war to a world of peace, from a defensive way of being to a forgiving way of being.

"Martinus is thus not a messiah in the traditional sense but a renewer. He is an author, an ingenious scientist within his field, cosmic science. He has created a series of works filled with analyses and scientific results and written in so simple a language and in such a way that anyone with the necessary maturity and love of truth can research into his analyses. We have here a tool to change ourselves from animal human beings to real human beings. And I would like to finish here by giving thanks to God for letting us meet Martinus, and thanking the master builder, the author in the service of world redemption, the friend and human being Martinus."

Martinus began by expressing his most heartfelt and warmest thanks for all the tributes he had received but, he said, the thanks were not due to him; the thanks were due to God. The analyses that had been given him were eternal realities. He had reached a stage where he had the ability to reveal these analyses and had daily gone to this work in the same way as everyone else goes to their work. He was happy that there were today so many people who appreciated the cosmic analyses.

He made it absolutely clear that the cause was not a sect or association. It was neutral and freely available to everyone. The cause had no entry or resignation procedure. No one could be thrown out because no one could join. Anyone is free to read these analyses and anyone can form study groups and create centres, as long as one follows the analyses. There is just as free access to these thoughts as there is to the sun in the sky. He said too that people who belonged to various religious communities and were happy about it should not leave them if they felt inspiration there.

Martinus emphasised that his work, which constitutes The Third Testament, had a centre, which was a non-profit-making institution, a fixed point with an administration, a guard that should see to it that his cause did not go astray.

The significance that his work had was that his cosmic analyses constituted a logical world picture.

Despite his advanced age he spoke for about 50 minutes during which he went through the main points in this world picture. The most important point was this, that evolution is guiding the beings forward to become "human beings in God's image after his likeness", as is told in the story of Creation. And it is this creation that takes place through everything that happens or occurs in existence and in Nature. The human being's way of behaving is changed by the violent events, the Armageddon that began with the great world wars and by the coming darkness and the great revolutions that can be expected around the turn of the century. Terrestrial people had previously a strong faculty of instinct and believed in higher powers and have been led forward by a parent principle or a Christ principle, whose purpose it was to govern people and lead them forward to a state of the highest perfection, towards cosmic consciousness, which is the same as becoming "the human being in God's image".

One had to understand that this transformation could not take place in one life, and that one had many lives. This was not apparent from the previous, now antiquated, terminology because Christ had not been able to give his explanation in an intellectual form since most people at that time could neither read nor write. And Martinus then explained how Jesus had to use another aspect of his cosmic consciousness, that with which he could work miracles, and thereby get people to believe in him. Christ thus knew that a continuation had to come later, and told his disciples that he had much that he could not tell them because they would neither be able to understand it nor be able to bear it now, "but the spokesman, the holy spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and remind you of all things that I have told you. He should glorify him, take of his and give to you." Martinus made it absolutely clear that this "spokesman" was not a man. It was not Christ who came again and preached, not a new world redeemer who came personally - it was writings. The Jews call their writings "Talmud". (Translator's note: The Danish " Talsmand" means both "Spokesman" and "Talmud")

Such writings or books should give people the final solution of the mystery of life, and he said outright that his work, "The Third Testament", was a continuation of Christ's mission. With its help the human being is now being led forward to the perfect stage, cosmic consciousness, but to reach this far, said Martinus, many lives are needed. It was thus a new world epoch, a coming "culture of Christ", which began with Jesus almost 2000 years ago. Previously people had received the Ten Commandments and had them as a guide, and now Jesus told them how they ought to live and behave. Jesus had told them about when the "last days" would come: "When there is talk of wars and rumours of wars, when brother rises against brother and there come famine and earthquake. And at this time many would make themselves out to be the resurrected Christ. They are all signs of the imminent coming of Armageddon."

Martinus also talked about how even Jesus could predict that terrestrial people would sabotage the earth; he mentioned atomic explosions and explained that it was the earth's vital force (the earth is a living being) one thereby gained access to, macrocosmic vital force, forces one could not control. We ourselves have mesocosmic vital force, just as micro-beings in our organisms have microcosmic vital force. From atomic explosions one gets waste that one cannot get rid of, but it was all a part of Armageddon, which is not something really "evil" and not something that can be blamed on anyone. The catastrophes that arise bring with them necessary experiences, and it is all a link in God's plan and is the only thing that can bring about a dissolution of "evil". Martinus considered that the earth had sufficient natural sources of power. He also explained that there are supernatural powers whose purpose it is to control the earth's atomic forces. The human being is always under this protection, this "parent principle".

The Armageddon that would come would bring to the fore all evil, everything that is wrong; evil is everything that causes suffering and pain, depression and suicide, hate, revenge etc. But people vary such a lot, and he emphasised that there are many people, millions of people, who are humane because they have already gone through an Armageddon long ago in previous lives.

Christ did not come to the earth merely to preach and work miracles; he came to show that people will become all-wise, almighty and all-loving just as he himself was. But the human being does not know universal love. It is not the same as falling in love or marriage, even though these can be very beautiful.

Terrestrial people have now reached a stage where they begin to cry out for a solution. For politically and economically the world is out of joint, and in some countries even Christianity has been forbidden. Perhaps one thinks that Christianity is dead, but it is not, emphasised Martinus. Christ had received the task of being a model for people, and we should be led forward to becoming like him, to being able to forgive, and to seeing how far one has to go. One has to go so far that one, in the worst sufferings that an enemy can inflict upon one, should be able to pray to God to forgive him this misdeed because "he knows not what he does".

Evolution is part of God's creation, said Martinus. One should try to be with God in this creation. From the analyses there will be created politics, a new culture that will show how one should live. He reckoned that in no more than 500 years there would be "Christ-politics", and in about 3000 years many will have reached Christ-consciousness, and many will have experienced the "Great Birth" and have gone over to the cosmic plane.

Towards the end of his talk Martinus said that it is Christ-consciousness that should be developed. One should, in the same way as Christ, take up one's cross. If he hadn't done so, there would have been no Christianity today. And Christ's prediction of "the coming of the Spokesman, the holy spirit" was now fulfilled. Spiritual science is now in the world.

Martinus emphasised that he could not have written the cosmic analyses alone. He could not have written these things if he had not been one with God. The analyses are created in prayer to God. He explained how he himself prayed to God many times a day. Every time he felt unpleasant forces he tuned his quiet mind into God.

In the course of the talk Martinus often made laughter resound in the hall, for example in connection with his reference to prayer, when he said that God does not demand any peculiarities when one prays. "He is not so small-minded that he says, 'Get down on your knees!' "Every evening he prayed a "long prayer", wherein he prayed among other things for his work and the people he knew needed help. Martinus ended by thanking the audience and wishing them "an immensely good future". Finally he said that even though he would no longer give lectures he was not dead yet. "Even when I am dead, you can be sure that I will be with you, but in another way. Thank you very much for coming!"

Everyone in the tightly packed hall gave Martinus a standing ovation, and he left it waving to his friends, supported by his walking stick and his good helper, Mischa.

And for most people this was the last glimpse they had of Martinus.

On Tuesday evening, 3 March, Martinus and Mischa had worked with the word-processor until 2 o'clock in the morning, when Mischa had said that it was now bedtime. The following evening they worked until about 10.30pm. I had been at the institute and had made tea for Martinus both in the afternoon and in the evening, and Mischa, even though it was actually his day off, had come in the evening to help Martinus with his writing.

During the night - it was now 5 March - our telephone rang at about 4.30am. It was Martinus and he said, "I have fallen out of bed!" I said, "I'm on my way!" My wife Sysse and I were at the institute within about 10 minutes and by our joint efforts we managed to get Martinus into bed. He had lain on the floor for about 11/2 or 2 hours and had tried to contact his closest co-workers by telephone but, since he hadn't succeeded, he rang us.

We collected Mischa, who was a kind of housekeeper to Martinus, and we agreed to call a doctor from the emergency service and an ambulance. Martinus was then admitted to Frederiksberg Hospital. It turned out that he had broken the neck of one of his thigh bones and as he had such a bad heart he could not be operated on. He was in for a long period of bed rest if the bone was to heal. During the following 3 days, only Mischa visited Martinus at the hospital. He was given pain-killers and he dozed off for periods, but at other times he was quite lucid. He seemed now to realise that he was not to write anymore and that his mission was completed.

About 1.30am on 8 March Martinus left the physical plane. He was 90 years and 7 months old.

This did not come as any surprise to us since months of bed rest without the possibility for an operation because of a weak heart would have been pointless.

It was Mischa who rang us with the news at 8 o'clock on the Sunday morning. He said simply, "Martinus departed during the night at 1.30."

The council and a few others gathered at the hospital around Martinus' bier, and it was a small, quiet flock that bade farewell to Martinus' physical organism. He himself was not here any longer.

Afterwards the council and close co-workers gathered at the institute. There was a good, open and confident atmosphere among the co-workers during this gathering, whose purpose was first and foremost to make the preliminary plans for the funeral ceremony.

Everyone was prepared to make sure that everything went according to Martinus' last will and testament, and according to the plans he himself had made for the funeral and for the future of his cause.

It was possible to use the Tivoli Concert Hall for this ceremony because the Tivoli's summer season did not begin until five weeks later.

In order to create a beautiful, dignified and light occasion the council had engaged some professional artists to take part. The Michala Petri Trio were to play, and the actress Ellen Malberg was to read the "Postscript" with which Martinus concluded his main work, "The Third Testament". The opera singer Per Johansen led the singing of the psalms that Martinus had wanted sung. The psalms were "To the heavens your mercy reaches, God", "Lovely is the earth" and "Always cheerful as you go". The music was by Telemann, Heberle and Vivaldi and was interpreted wonderfully by the Petri trio. And then something happened that was very unusual for a funeral ceremony - the 1200 people that had come to say goodbye to Martinus clapped after each piece of music -almost certainly a great surprise to themselves. But the music was so moving and the applause contributed to creating the happy, festive atmosphere that, according to Martinus, will come to characterise funerals of the future.

Two members of the council made speeches. First, engineer Ib Schleicher, whose speech was called "We shall not mourn." He pointed to important elements of Martinus Cosmology and showed how Martinus' life's work was the final stage in a long, uninterrupted evolution from the old, primitive religions, through newer, more humane religions, via many religious stages to a modern view of life, which is a natural continuation of this and which can satisfy the highest demands of feeling and intelligence, of logic and intellectuality. Ib expressed finally his warm, heartfelt thanks to Martinus, the man, and thereby also to the Providence that sent this loving human being who gave us such glorious inspiration. This inspiration will spread and continue for centuries.

This speech and the ensuing one as well as an account of Martinus' entire life's mission and a description of the funeral ceremony, are published in a special (Danish) edition of KOSMOS (no. 13/14 1981).

Rolf Elving's speech, which he called "A guest from a higher world", shone likewise with love for Martinus and showed also his great understanding of his cosmic mission in life.

After having begun the speech with a description of mankind's unrest, doubt and sufferings and the apparent injustice in the world, which end in an ever louder cry to heaven about "a meaning in life", often formulated as "Can there be a loving God when the world is as it is?" Rolf said, "It was Martinus' mission to uncover the structure of The Eternal World Picture in the clear light of intellectuality and wisdom, the all-knowing, almighty Godhead's eternal laws of love. It was Martinus' mission to make comprehensible the ways of God.

"And this 'making comprehensible' became a hymn of thanksgiving about life and the eternal laws of love that guarantee the fulfilment of the son of God's most profound and most comprehensive desire - the eternal experience of life. It became a hymn of thanksgiving where both the heart and the reason begin to sing the divine words 'Everything is very good'. And in the clear rays of intellectuality and love that emanate from Martinus' life's work we find words that can scatter the clouds of unrest from our mental heaven.

"Our new cosmic mental point of equilibrium will find its balance in Martinus' words, as for example 'No one can suffer injustice or do injustice' or in the understanding of 'the unpleasant good', in the understanding of reincarnation, evolution and the law of karma, in the understanding of the fact that neighbourly love or universal love or 'loving God above all things and one's neighbour as one's self is the deepest source of life, the sun of suns - is that power which leads 'the prodigal son' out of the zone of sorrow, suffering and pain into the life-giving and sunlit spheres of love.

"With his life's work Martinus has opened a new passage for the seeker after truth who is plagued by doubt and despondency. Together with the initiated, he who is cosmically born, the seeker after truth can now ascend to life's highest vantage point and here, in the clear light of reason, experience that everything - seen from the point of view of eternity - is very good.

"Life, the universe, the eternal Godhead are the culmination of perfection; they are love.

"Martinus has accomplished his mission on the physical plane. The way of the prodigal son back to his father's home now lies open. The eternal Father has, through Martinus, again opened his arms in welcome to and embrace of his returning beloved son.

"Dear Martinus, you are now home again in your own kingdom, your real home, the kingdom of light. On your behalf I feel happy from the bottom of my heart. Your words shed light on my path forward, and my heart is warmed and inspired by many fond memories.

"How stimulating it has been to feel the joy in living and inspiration with which you were animated! How wonderful it has been during my study of the cosmic analyses and in my time with you to feel your loving consideration and profound understanding and such an all-outshining experience of meeting a being of love. You concentrated your entire soul on the undivided wish to serve your neighbour in the best way. I begin gradually to understand that it is in this mastery and control of the primitive mental forces that the key to the holy of holies of the temple of life is to be found. How reassuring it is to know that this source of wisdom, this all-penetrating cosmic consciousness, cannot be opened up without engendering the downfall and death of self-worship.

"Dear Martinus, we celebrate today the physical conclusion of your mission. You have left your physical body, and you return your earthly loan to the earth. In this situation you have taught us to see with new eyes. Our neighbour is much closer to us than we could have dreamed. You have opened our eyes so that we can recognise and love our neighbour, when this, in our cosmic perspective, appears for our senses not only as mesocosmos but also as microcosmos and macrocosmos.

"Your desire for loving care of the living universe, the innumerable living beings that served you and thereby gave you a physical organism, has been fulfilled. Everything that could be done to ensure that the living universe you left behind should pass into the cycle in contact with the laws of love has been done. You have revealed a new aspect of the eternal commandment "Love thy neighbour as thyself." You have thereby in your individual way returned to the earth what you borrowed from it. You have returned that which was of this world. But you have also left behind something that was not of this world, something that shows you were a guest from another kingdom, a higher world, which also implies that you were in a way a stranger in this world.

"Behind your earthly mask, behind your physical organism were hidden a consciousness, a love, a wisdom that were not of this world. It was your mission to implant the highest knowledge of life of your kingdom - the kingdom of love - in our world. It was your mission to show that loving one's neighbour as oneself is science, is high-intellectuality, is the true source of all beauty, all real happiness.

"Your mission is accomplished, you have fertilised this world with the wisdom of your kingdom. The kingdom of love will no longer be merely a beautiful Utopia here on Earth. Inspired and strengthened by the power of your thinking and the warmth of your feelings, more and more people -eventually the whole of mankind - will find their way home to you and your kingdom.

"The sun of universal love has been lit in the breast of terrestrial mankind. All life is united and fused in culminating love and wisdom. God and the son of God have become one, and we are once again united with you in paradise."

The funeral ceremony ended with a recitation by Ellen Malberg, the actress. Aage Hvolby writes about this in his account of the funeral: "The highlight of the ceremony was Martinus himself. Through Ellen Malberg's recitation of the postscript 'The Son of God at One with His Father' he was in a way himself the main speaker. With Martinus' own words we, with him, could focus our consciousness on the source of life in gratitude for the gift mankind has received through the cosmic analyses."

After that the hall emptied slowly. Martinus' friends had taken leave of him. It was a farewell party that brought joy and peace to the mind but left a great loss among co-workers and friends.

Martinus' coffin now remained standing on the stage. It was then accompanied by the members of the council to a chapel in Vestre Kirkegård (Western Cemetery).

Martinus' coffin remained in this chapel until the spring of 1986 when it was transferred to a mausoleum in Frederiksberg's old cemetery, the back wall of which is decorated with Martinus' own flag.

Martinus has left behind the world picture that he has described in his works as a gift to all human beings, to the whole of mankind. It will not lead to revolution but will be a source of inspiration for the individual human being to change in the direction of what Martinus called "God's image", that is God's way of being, which is in turn the same as a way of living in full accord with the physical and spiritual laws of Nature.

His works will also be an inspiration for poets, writers, painters, sculptors and other artists.

They will all contribute to changing all people, all societies in the direction of a "real human kingdom", "a new heaven and a new earth in which justice reigns".

And as has happened for previous world teachers who through the centuries have been loved by millions of people, so too will there in the coming centuries be sent to God the prayers and thanks of millions of people for the human being who, with his untiring work, created a logical world picture, a new moral guidance, a scientific work on universal love.

No one has said it more clearly than you.

No one has substantiated it more strongly or clearly.

And you have said, "The funeral of the future will not be a mournful occasion but on the contrary a celebration of joyful thanksgiving for the eternal continuance of life."

We should therefore not mourn for your sake. You have left a worn out body and have returned to the existence of light you came from and which awaits us all someday.

You cherished a very warm, heartfelt desire that we should come to understand life and thereby be able to create an entirely different existence here on Earth.

Almost every single day during the last 60 years, from when you were 30 until you were 90, you have been taken up with your life's work. You have used your entire working capacity on it.

All the same you have throughout your entire life insisted that you did not wish to be made the object of any kind of personality cult. Through all these years you have carefully avoided public attention. And you have done so from the point of view that your work would become important only after your departure.

You have shown regularity where others see only lack of regularity.

You have shown justice where others see only injustice.

You have shown the evolution of humaneness where others see only stagnation and indifference.

You have shown the foundation for optimism and joy in living where others have seen only hopelessness.

No one who has read your works can be in doubt that they have been created by a superior consciousness, a consciousness with a much greater scope than we otherwise know here on Earth.

But you have said, "What I am, all others will be after me, and all others have been before me."

When we have expressed our gratitude to you, you have always referred our thanks to the eternal providence.

It was your mission to uncover - in the clear light of wisdom - the eternal world picture and the Godhead's eternal laws of love.

It was your mission to make comprehensible the ways of God.

And this 'making comprehensible' has become hymn of thanksgiving, a revelation of the son of God's unceasing correspondence with the Godhead; a demonstration of the culmination of love between the eternal Godhead and the eternal son of God.

It became a hymn of thanksgiving for life and the eternal laws of love that guarantee the fulfilment of the son of God's most profound and most comprehensive desire - the eternal experience of life.

It became a hymn of praise in which both the heart and the brain send up the divine words "Behold - everything is very good!"

You have accomplished your mission on the physical plane of existence, and you are now home again in your own kingdom, the kingdom of light, your real home.

For your sake we are happy from the bottom of our hearts.