M0551
God's "Senses"
by Martinus

To some people the question at times arises: "If there is a God, how then does He experience "Existence"? To others such a question would be unimportant, they would say: "If there is a God at all, then He must be a hard sadist when He permits all the evil which takes place on earth; but surely there is no God, everything is a matter of casual natural forces". The believers will think that it is blasphemy and even sinful to occupy oneself with such a topic. They believe that God exists, but that He should appear with a mentality or consciousness which was subjected to definite universal laws just like our own consciousness, they cannot understand.
Those people who think that "the ways of God are unsearchable" and that it is sinful to occupy one's thoughts with what God is and how He is experiencing life, they have themselves a meaning about how God is. They believe that He avenges and punishes all sin in the world, yes, even that He annihilates the sinners in His anger, or that He sends them to an eternal pain in hell. They also believe that He blesses and caresses and that one can address oneself to Him in the time of trouble with one's distress and worries. They believe that He has created the earth and all what is found on it, and also the myriads of globes, suns and milky-ways, the existence of which we suspect in the universe surrounding us. None the less they will not hear of this Godhead's consciousness being subjected to any laws governing His thinking or will. They assert that God is so great that one cannot directly come into contact with Him or speak to Him. They assert that a being who is greater than the greatest created phenomena such as stars and milky-ways must surely be too big to speak to such a "speck of dust" as a terrestrial human being. It is excusable that the human beings have such strange or imperfect forms of perception of God. Because most people are only able to perceive the Godhead with their instinct and their feeling and not with their intelligence. Human beings with a strong touch of intelligence, on the other hand, often have the above-mentioned perception that God does not exist, but He is a product of the imagination of naive human beings.
The intelligence is, however, a new energy of consciousness in the terrestrial human beings, and it is even in human beings with a very strong touch of intelligence still of a very imperfect character. By means of his intelligence the terrestrial human being is usually only able to analyse and figure out results of measure and weight and on the whole occupy himself with the physical world. Spiritual realities he generally sees as results or effects of the reactions of the physical substances. Human beings with a strong touch of intelligence therefore study these reactions with interest, and little by little they discover the laws which apply to the physical world, from the systems of the milky-ways' colossal dimensions and to the microworld of the atoms and the electrons. Neither in macro- nor in micro-cosmos does one find haphazardness, everywhere one gets on the track of the material's regular faculty of reaction. One thus has the two forms of perception of life contrasting with each other, the one, the believing human beings: that God is something who is raised above laws and principles and who performs miracles and creates something out of "nothing". The second, the atheists and the materialists: that everything is only laws and principles, dead mechanical natural forces, which react on each other as the cogwheels in a machine and either act destructively or vitally in an accidental chain of cause and effect without any meaning but the one the human beings themselves create as wishful thinking. The first of these perceptions has a very strong touch of feeling, the second a very strong touch of intelligence'. But the terrestrial human being works with other energies in its consciousness than feeling and intelligence; among them an energy which still only manifests itself to a very small degree and only as flashes in the consciousness: the intuition. These intuitive flashes, which are connected both with feeling and intelligence, make the human being, though it may usually only be in fractions of seconds, to perceive a connection between everything in the universe. In former times a human being who had had a series of intuitive experiences and tried to relate them, was usually looked upon as a holy man, a wise man or a mystic. But in our time, and especially in the Western countries where one is not very much adjusted to mysticism, it happens that great researchers and scientists, artists and writers receive intuitive flashes which enable them to see that the universe alter all is not a machine with occasional rotations, but that there behind everything are thoughts and consciousness. It is not so exceptional to meet such statements today, but that does not mean that their source suddenly has become "believers". They do not give up their knowledge about the laws and the principles of the universe. On the contrary, it is just the discovery of the very exact logic which exists everywhere in the great as well as in the small, which make them comprehend that all this cannot take place as blind coincidences, but that there behind creation also must be one who creates, thinks and contemplates in harmony with definite laws and principles.
So we see that where intelligence is connected with intuitive experience the human being is enabled to have an inkling of a greater connection between everything, a connection which intelligence alone would not be able to give. But the feeling, the human being's humane adjustment, its will to create peace and harmony in existence also plays a considerable role as a contributory cause of intuitive experience. When the intelligence of a human being can be used not only as a faculty which coldly and calculatingly finds out what can be to his own advantage so he may be able to live in luxury and comfort, even if other people will have to suffer for it, but also is a faculty by which he may try to be of benefit to the entirety, therefore connected with humane fellow feeling and sympathy, then this harmony between intelligence and feeling leads to the leaven of intuition in the consciousness, which means that quite a new world is opening itself before the terrestrial human being.
Naturally, it is not only scientists, writers and artists, who now and then may have intuitive experience, it is only those human beings who perhaps have the greatest faculty to give expression to their experiences. Many people who have finished with the "believing" stage and perhaps almost regard themselves as atheists, because they cannot believe in the common dogmatic ideas about God, heaven and hell, but are both intelligent and in possession of humane feeling and a faculty of charity, often feel the lack of and the longing for a fixed point in their existence. They become seekers and can now and then experience the flash of intuition in their consciousness, though they may not be able to understand what is taking place. In a flash they feel that there is a purpose in everything, a connection between themselves and the great universe, which is of importance, and also that it must be possible to succeed in finding an understanding of this connection. It IS possible. And it has become my duty in my cosmic analyses to show the searching human being that the Godhead is a scientific fact. A new and more matter-of-fact or scientific adjustment on the living Godhead will in time result in quite a new world epoch, which will differ from the old one thereby that one will not create God in one's own image but, on the other hand, create oneself in the image of the Godhead. But in order that one can transform oneself into the image of the Godhead then the Godhead must be a realistic model, something which has its root in reality and the daily existence and not an imaginary being up in the sky. Can the Godhead then become such a realistic and scientifically stated fact? Yes, to the open-minded, sober and intelligent researcher the Godhead really can become a theoretical fact. The very experience of the Godhead through cosmic consciousness or initiation cannot be given to any being, it is something which the being itself must develop into and which will come sometime when the being is in possession of the necessary combination in the consciousness of feeling, intelligence and intuition. It is something which comes with the evolution in the same way as the being once got eyes to see with and ears to hear with. It comes sooner or later to every terrestrial human being just as it once developed itself from mineral to plant and from plant to animal. Now it has to be transformed from animal to a real human being, which just means "a human being in the image of God".
In this process of transformation or creation the human being has reached so far that it has begun to get a free will to become a collaborator or fellow creator in the process. Such a divine collaboration demands understanding and insight, it means knowledge not only of the physical laws, but also of those laws which act behind the psychic or spiritual part of the universe. It is the laws behind the Godhead's consciousness; and when the human being learns to follow these laws then it will be on wave-length with God's consciousness or with the basic tone of the universe and become "one with the Father". My cosmic analyses are an analysing of the Godhead's consciousness and organism. Regarding our own consciousness we do not doubt that our sensory faculty is being unfolded through the sense organs and the same is valid for all living beings with whom we come into contact. In all the different experiences we meet with we see that the living beings experience and create through instruments or organs made for the purpose. It is a universal principle. Sense perception can only take place by means of sense organs. In order to experience physical matter it is necessary for the beings to have physical sense organs, and in order to experience spiritual matter they must have spiritual sense organs. And thus every single living being is provided with senses which make such an experience possible. To believe that the same principle should not be valid for the Godhead, whose organism is the whole universe is quite illogical. The Godhead can neither sense nor create without tools or organs for sense perception and creation. But as the Godhead has sense organs which consist of material and work with material, then it must be possible to investigate them. Where in the universe do we then find God's sense organs? In order to be able to answer this question one must first understand that all what exists belongs to the Godhead. Nothing exists outside God. The universe with its infinite space and time, materials and living beings, both those we can see and those we cannot see, are organs in this gigantic organism. These organs or micro-beings are divided in groups. Within the terrestrial human being's physical sensory realm such groups of organs can be observed as that which we call species and races. The terrestrial human beings are special centres of experience or sense organs in the Godhead's organism. Together they constitute quite a special form of organic material through which special wave-lengths and vibrations of energy can pass. Thus it is also in our own organism. We have one kind of centres of experience which we call cerebral cells, another heart cells, we have white and red blood corpuscles, we have nerve cells of many kinds, we have centres of life-experience distributed in all fields of our organism. Is it not exactly the same picture we see outside ourselves, only in a much greater scale than in our own inner self? In such a macrocosmic organism there must also be organs for the demolition and disintegration of combinations of material and in the same way for construction and perfection. The whole infinite universe with the myriads of particles which together form greater particles consists of living beings which respectively constitute universes and substances for each other. All live, move and have their being in the Godhead, and they are all eternal beings who from their longings and wishes experience an eternal transformation, which is the same as an eternal evolution based on the unshakable law of the contrast principle. But then where is God, is He the greatest of all these beings? No, this principle of life is eternal and infinite in its structure. No outermost or innermost being is found and thus not either any greatest or smallest being. The final result of the structure of the universe is not a being in the dimension of time and space. No matter how big they would appear, they cannot be anything but a son of God who is a micro-being in a still greater being. They cannot be the Godhead Himself. God is the eternity and the infinity itself who has nothing outside itself, no Godhead above Himself. God experiences all in His inner world, and in our own inner world we can also find God. God is the directing "I" of the universe, a "Something which is", eternal and unshakable, and God's "I" has its home in all living beings. When the single being or the single son of God with its own rays and waves of consciousness comes on the wave-length with the loving thought-radiation, which from the Godhead's "I" penetrates all in the universe, then it becomes "one with the Father, one with the Way, the Truth and the Life", it becomes a human being in God's image, a tool of ever higher sense perception and unfoldment of creation.
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Original Danish title: Guds sanser. A lecture given at the Martinus Institute on Sunday 7th November 1948. First published in Danish in Kontaktbrev no. 21, 1958. Manuscript for the lecture edited by Mogens Møller and approved by Martinus Translated by Anna Ørnsholt.
Article ID: M0551
Published in the English edition of Contact letter July, 1964.
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