A frustrated prophet?

Martinus Thomsen (usually just called Martinus) was a Danish spiritual teacher with a message similar to Theosophy. His magnum opus is known as "Livets Bog" (The Book of Life). The message itself is called Martinus Kosmologi. Most of Martinus' writings are only available in Danish and Swedish. 

"Kring min missions födelse" is an undated text, translated to Swedish in 1975. In it, Martinus tries to explain his prophetic mission and how it came about. The author sounds surprisingly frustrated. Apparently, Christians in Denmark had sharply criticized him, accusing the new prophet of being "possesed by the Devil", "megalomaniacal" or simply "blasphemous". Unless they saw him as the Anti-Christ, of course! While this is of course absurd, Martinus *does* have pretty high ideas about his mission. He claims to be the Paraclete, the Second Coming of Christ, a new Moses or Paul. His new revelation is a form of "mathematical" or "scientific" *knowledge*, and a man of pure faith therefore cannot judge him. Indeed, the veracity of his message can only be judged by those who live by it! Only the Spirit can comprehendeth Spirit, it seems. 

That being said, I should perhaps point out that Martinus didn't want to suppress any religion or worldview, and regarded his revelation as just a small step in a millennia-long evolution of human society towards perfection. I never heard any cult-accusations against Martinus Kosmologi. 

Martinus' description of the origins of his mission is interesting. He claims to have been a very simple Christian, completely untutored in theology, when a friend recommended him to study the material of the Theosophical Society. The effect was dramatic. When Martinus tried a certain meditation technique, he literally saw a Christ-like figure surrounded by white and blue light moving towards him and *merging* with his soul. In another vision, the heavens were open and Martinus could feel the perfect love of the Father, the life-force in the cosmos, and so on. 

The author emphasizes that the only thing in the Theosophical literature he ever studied was that one meditation technique. I admit this is hard to believe, since "Livets Bog" sounds very much like Theosophy, minus the difficult Sanskrit terminology. And why establish an indirect chain of transmission from Theosophy in the first place, if the "mission" is supposedly unique? It's also intriguing that Martinus calls the supernatural personage he merged with "a Christ being" rather than explicitly Jesus Christ, although that must be whom he has in mind. The author freely uses Christian and Biblical terminology, after all. 

With that reflection, I end this little review.