M0795: The Innermost Sensation and Mission of the Highest Fire

M0795

The Innermost Sensation and Mission of the Highest Fire

by Martinus

What is the highest fire? It is a special term created by Martinus to describe a feeling that at its source is sexuality in its pure state. For example, it can be connected to sexuality as we know it in a couple's relationship, but it can go even further. It can include a longing to love and caress all living beings and to be so close to them that one quite literally melts totally together with them. In fact so much so that the physical body becomes a hindrance. Does that sound extraordinary? If it does, read in this article what else Martinus writes about the highest fire.

1. The outer and the inner experience of life

We have previously heard about the outer phenomenon of the highest fire, and its creation and regulation of the stage of the living being's gender through many different stages in the cycle, in fact the entire outer revelation of life's manifestation. But the outer revelation and experience of life or existence is not the complete or all-inclusive analysis of existence.

As long as existence or life merely takes the form of an experience of outer phenomena one has still not become one with life, that is to say one with other living beings, one with the Father, one with truth. Such an outer experience is in truth absolutely inevitable since it constitutes a demarcation of another experience, which is its opposite, namely the inner experience of life or existence. As this "inner experience" far overshadows the outer experience in its divine sensation of wellbeing, it is therefore this experience that is actually the primary one, whereas the outer experience in relation to this can constitute only the secondary one. All sensory perception is therefore based on these two forms of experience: an "outer" and an "inner experience". The difference between these two experiences is marked by the fact that whereas the "outer experience" is, in its pure form, the culmination of mental coldness and kills, obliterates or sabotages the experience of life, the "inner experience", in its pure form, is the culmination of the creation of the blossoming of life, or the highest opening up into divine wellbeing, a radiant interpenetration of an inseparable, in fact indivisible, belonging together or being one with all living beings. The inner sensation of life melts the beings together into an unbreakable unit, making them the same flesh and blood, whereas the outer experience separates the living beings, making them into beings that are different from each other, foreign and more or less hostile beings. The outer experience of life creates antipathy towards one's fellow beings, causing the living being itself to be the all-controlling, autocratic dictator, and thereby subjugator of all and everything, whereas the inner experience makes it the greatest pleasure to be everyone's loyal and most trusted servant. In a nutshell, the whole experience of life therefore appears to us here in these two concentrated extremes. The highest sensation in life, and therefore the happiest, is therefore the feeling of belonging to the other beings, a feeling that can only exist as love, while the opposite of this is the feeling of separation and therefore the feeling of antipathy and jealousy towards other beings' for having a share in or an equal right to the good things of life, which we know as "hate". Love is therefore life's high point, and hate is its low point. Love is the light contrast, and hate is the dark contrast.

2. The picture of existence can be over- or under-exposed

All sensory perception is marked with the help of these two contrasts. Every experience of life whatsoever will therefore of necessity in its cosmic analysis consist of a placing together or a combination of these two contrasts, in the same way that a photograph consists of a combination of light and shade. Just as such a photograph can appear with far too much shade and correspondingly too little light, and the reverse, thereby constituting in both cases an extremely imperfect picture, the light and shade formations in the living being's experience or perception of life can also be in disharmony. Here the picture of existence or life can appear with a predominance of shady regions and correspondingly far too little light, and the reverse. The experience of existence or life becomes, like the photograph, correspondingly imperfect, veiled or without details. But just as the good photograph depends on a natural harmony or a perfect proportion of light and shade, in the same way the perfect experience of life also depends on there being just the right amount of shade in order to show up the structure and details of the light. Where there is too much shade the details of the light cannot be seen or experienced. And where light cannot be experienced life is just an experience of shade, an experience of exaggerated darkness. In the same way the picture of life will be imperfect wherever there is too little shade and thereby far too much or an exaggerated amount of light. Here there will be no clear details either, and the picture will be blurred or hazy. As the picture of life is the same as the living being's consciousness, one will therefore understand why the living beings are so different or appear with so many different views of life or world pictures.

3. The picture of life in the terrestrial human being and in the initiated being

The large part of the terrestrial human being's consciousness, view of life or world picture is like a very bad photograph, that is to say underexposed or drawn with far too much shade and almost no light, so that the picture is false or to the highest degree imperfect. In other beings, the picture of life is overexposed or drawn with far too much light and almost no shade, so that the picture is a false picture of reality, a phenomenon without details and meaning. In some beings the picture is correctly exposed, it has the correct division of light and shade, which means that there is just the right amount of shade to give the light or the light details their true worth, which causes the picture to be authentic, to be an expression of one hundred per cent reality or truth. We call beings with such a consciousness "initiated" beings, and this consciousness "cosmic consciousness". These beings can only be identical to the truth, thereby being one with the way and the life. All the other beings among the general population on Earth still do not have the true photograph of reality in their view of life or world picture. They can still not see the imperfect relationship that exists between light and shade in their imperfect view of the world or experience of truth. But through so-called evolution we can see that all of them are on their way to becoming perfect cosmic "photographers". Their mentality or sensory ability, which is their "photographic" ability or talent, becomes better and better, whereby their photograph of or view of the world picture becomes more and more perfect. There is in it a better and better relationship between the regions of light and shade.

4. The highest fire is the force behind the creation of light and shade

But behind this creation of the world picture, behind this juggling with light and shade, there is the force that we call the highest fire. The effects of this highest fire are therefore light and shade. This fire must therefore produce both parts, otherwise it would have no meaning. If a situation could come about in which all shade totally disappeared all the details in the picture would be removed, just as the same would be the case if all light totally disappeared. But since a picture that is totally without details is no picture, but is precisely nothing, one understands that light and shade are equally necessary and are therefore equally eternal. The situation can therefore never come about in which the result of an experience or perception is that the one or the other of the two contrasts, light and shade, is totally lacking. In its structure of the two contrasts there can be too much or too little of them, but neither of them can be totally lacking. But as we said before, the world picture is not purely and simply an outer picture. Its true experience in an inner picture. The outer picture is the shade and the inner picture is the light. The concentrated pole of the outer picture is our neighbour's self or I, whereas the concentrated pole of the inner picture, the light, is our own self or I. To bring these two contrasts together into a harmonious unit is the same as the creation and experience of the true world picture. It is the culmination of initiation or the experience of the highest existence, namely being one with the Father and above time and space, and thereby identical to eternity and infinity. The mission of the entire spiral cycle is to create the conditions for all possible deviations from the perfect world picture and all possibilities for the creation of harmony or contact with the world picture itself. This creates the possibility for the experience of perfection and imperfection, or the experience of life and death. The experience of matter and spirit. The world picture is therefore light and shade, a combination of love and hate. Love and hate are the colouration of life. With these means of colouration one can create life as a work of art as well as create it as a botched or false piece of art.

The final sentence of the manuscript contains a number of additions and deletions: With reference to the culminatory experience of the true world picture, that is to say the perfectly combined inner and outer part of the experience, which is an expression of the perfect world picture, it is borne exclusively by the constellation of the being's sexual poles … consequently the sexual act.

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The article is a transcription of an unfinished manuscript by Martinus. The manuscript is undated. Section headings by Torben Hedegaard, approved by the council on 3^rd November 2006. Original title and publication date: Den højeste ilds inderste fornemmelse og mission. Danish Kosmos 2007/6. Translated by Andrew Brown, 2017. Article ID: M0795. Published in the English edition of Kosmos no. 3, 2017.

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