To Know Yourself is to know God.

The study of The Third Testament is a journey of discovery into an eternal world of radiant beauty. Under the strong supervision of logic we are guided, step by step, into the inner sanctum of our own I, where we experience our eternal and immortal existence outside of time and space. Here in our innermost centre we are united with and at “one with God”...

On this journey we discover that the eternal and omnipotent Godhead lives in everything that happens, through every single vibration or movement in the created world. The practical aim of The Third Testament's explanation of the world is to teach us to see, hear and understand this divine speech, as something that is personally and lovingly addressed to us and directly released by Providence, and to learn to love one's neighbour – that is to say, absolutely any living being that we meet on our way – as oneself. Once we have beheld with our own eyes the divine world plan and have managed with our own reasoning to see that all living beings in the physical world are under evolution, are in the process of being made perfect in God's own image, we are in agreement once again with our common Creator that “everything is very good”...

The Symptoms of ignorance~Not knowing oneself causes problems, in our own mind and towards our fellow human beings. This suffering fulfils the old prophecies of “Judgement day”. The Third Testament states that this suffering, these experiences of ignorance, will lead us all towards the same conclusion - love...

Spiritual science~But this stage, allove, can’t be reached straight away. This final balance has to develop step by step; even wisdom is an evolutionary process. The aim of this process is the absolute knowledge of the truth. To reach this experience everyone has to investigate life for themselves, but in this process the analyses serves as a helping hand...

The step by step logic leads us to the cosmic view of life…

In “The Third Testament” all unfinished beings, which is to say “physical beings”, animals as well as humans, are revealed as being on the same path, a path that leads inevitably to cosmic consciousness and thereby to experiencing the golden glory of the universe, the golden light, the eternal aliveness in living beings and thereby to “Christ consciousness” and being “at one with God”. Christ was precisely the model for creating God's consciousness in human beings. Did not Christ say: “All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth”? (Matt. 28:18)...
How would he be able to be in God's image without this capacity? And how would any other being be able to be created in His image without them having to be led on to this same capacity?

“The Comforter, the Holy Spirit” is thus, in the form of this “Third Testament”, a continuation of Christ's proclamation. It is a continuation of the proclamation of the eternal Light from “the star of Bethlehem”. Here in this eternal light is revealed to the world the solution to greatest principles in the life and thereby the unshakeable foundation of Christianity, the vital foundation of happiness and bliss.” (Quotations from a manuscript by Martinus, written during the last years of his life and as yet unpublished in its entirety...

From Introduction to the Third Testament)

~Human beings are growing away from religious dogmas

Why have the religious ideals that have been proclaimed to human beings over the millennia not been able to prevent these demonic manifestations and the consequent deaths, disability, illness, hardship and decline in morality? Is it not apparent that the traditional religious ideals or dogmas, no matter how divine they have been, have not been able to free mankind from this Doomsday epoch of terror? In fact, do we not see that human beings are simply growing out of these ideals almost like children growing out of their clothes or shoes? To loose one's faculty to believe in them is therefore quite natural...

Have not millions of people become materialists or atheists? Is it not an equally unshakeable fact that this number is still increasing, that there are more and more empty seats in the churches or houses of God during the services? Does it not hereby become a fact that the very highest life-determining cosmic truths, religious commandments and dogmas have become a mystery, have become something that intelligent human beings actually consider is beneath them to have anything to do with or believe in? Is there something the matter with human beings or is it the religious ideals that are wrong?” (The Eternal Worldpicture I, Introduction, paragraph 3)

~Human beings who do not require logical justification to accept the traditional ideals and dogmas

“In the absolute sense it is neither the human beings nor the religious ideals that are wrong. The religious ideals are ingeniously adapted to suit the human beings to whom they have been given, on their particular evolutionary step. And for these human beings the ideals form a vital foundation of their lives. But a large part of mankind has grown on from these evolutionary steps. These beings have to varying degrees grown on to higher evolutionary steps. They are living in a quite different mental sphere from the one for whom the traditional religious answers and dogmas were adapted and which the beings in that sphere could a hundred percent surrender to due to their instinct, which is still to some extent flourishing. They were still not so developed in intelligence that they demanded intellectual confirmation of or justification for these religious ideals or dogmas. For them it was enough that they were given by authorities...

” (The Eternal Worldpicture I, Introduction, paragraph 4)

~Human beings who do require logical justification

“But this is not how it is today. Today great masses of human beings have lost their faculty to believe because their instinct has to a greater or lesser extent degenerated owing to the development of their intelligence. They have thereby gained the faculty to analyse, research and observe for themselves. As this development takes place it causes them to demand a logical basis or scientific substantiation for every thought construction or idea they have to accept as truth. But it would be quite unreasonable to blame these human beings for their state. It is impossible for them to believe in the dogmas of the religious ideals, precisely because they are manifested as mere conclusions or assumptions without the logical or scientific structure of which they are the conclusions...

A road is opened up before these people's cosmic study that leads on towards life's own all-encompassing justification of darkness in the world as a link in the creation of the eternal maintenance of the keynote of the universe: LOVE.” Which in turn is the revealing of the “image of God”, that all living physical beings through reincarnation or rebirth are in the process of being made into. You are GOD on your way to self-discovering....

Martinus