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'''The kingdom of bliss''' is, in Martinus' terminology, the sixth and final plane of existence in a [[spiral cycle]]. It is the sphere in which the living being's [[memory]] energy culminates and its waking consciousness is directed inward towards memories rather than outward towards the surrounding world.{{ref|TEWP 4|36.8}}

== Position in the spiral cycle ==

Martinus describes six kingdoms in each spiral cycle: the [[Plant kingdom]], [[Animal kingdom]], true human kingdom, [[Kingdom of wisdom]], [[Divine world]] and kingdom of bliss. The kingdom of bliss is therefore the last kingdom of one cycle.{{ref|LB2|359}} Martinus describes its degeneration and transition as leading towards the beginning of a new cycle.{{ref|TEWP 4|36.8}}

Martinus presents bliss as a created phenomenon with a beginning, a culmination and a subsequent degeneration. At its end, the mineral kingdom functions as a transitional stage towards the plant kingdom and the new cycle.{{ref|TEWP 1|13.18}} In this sense, the kingdom of bliss is both the culmination of one cosmic development and the threshold of another.

== Consciousness as memory ==

The decisive characteristic of this sphere is that the being is awake only in its memories. Its [[Cosmic consciousness]] and senses for the outer spiritual world have become so reduced that it has no ordinary day-conscious connection with that world; its active field of experience is instead the [[Universe]] formed by its own recollections. The body of memory, which is comparatively latent in terrestrial human beings, reaches its culmination here.{{ref|TEWP 1|13.17}}

The being can recall the experiences of the whole completed spiral cycle: its passage through the plant and animal kingdoms, its unfinished human existence, and its later experiences in the true human kingdom, the kingdom of wisdom and the divine world. These memories are not merely faint mental images, as they generally are for people on Earth. In the kingdom of bliss they have a strength corresponding to waking physical experience.{{ref|TEWP 1|13.17}}

Martinus calls the transformed memories ''gold-copies''. Experiences of joy and suffering, including dark experiences from the zone of the [[killing principle]], remain as copies, but their painful sting has been removed. They appear in a shining, sympathetic spiritual material. Thus even memories of unpleasant events can be experienced in a softened and glorified form.{{ref|LB2|397}}{{ref|LB1|211}} The term “bliss” refers to the calm, inward pleasure that arises when these memories are experienced in the light of the Godhead's spirit.{{ref|TEWP 4|36.8}}

== A private universe ==

The kingdom of bliss is different from the other kingdoms because it is not a shared outer world. Martinus describes it as a “one-being kingdom”: each being experiences its own inner universe, consisting exclusively of its own memories. Other beings do not encounter one another there as independent inhabitants of a common environment.{{ref|TEWP 4|36.8}}

The remembered universe nevertheless contains the whole range of the individual's experience. It includes remembered people, animals, landscapes, planets and stars, as well as the events and relationships through which the being has lived. The being can move backwards and forwards in time within this memory-universe and bring its details into consciousness according to its wish.{{ref|LB4|1588}} In Martinus' description, the being is sovereign within this memory-universe: nothing in it is foreign to the being's own experience, and its movements are governed by the being's memory.

This sovereignty is not the sovereignty of the absolute [[Godhead]]. Rather, Martinus presents it as a temporary experience of being in God's image: the individual is allowed to experience itself as the life-giving centre of a universe that is a living copy of the universe it has previously experienced.{{ref|LB4|1588}} The kingdom of bliss therefore gives the being a direct experiential confirmation of the statement that “Everything is very good”.{{ref|LB2|397}}

== Bliss and satiation ==

The withdrawal from outer consciousness is part of a cosmic rhythm. After the culmination of outward creation and intellectuality in the divine world, Martinus says that the being becomes satiated with that form of experience. Satiation makes it possible to turn inward and experience the contrast through memories.{{ref|LB2|391}}

At first, the inward experience is sufficient. But repeated experience also produces satiation in this sphere. The being gradually longs for new creation and for the contrast represented by the darker and more material zones of existence. Only memories can be experienced directly in the kingdom of bliss; new outward events cannot be created there in the same manner as in the outer worlds. This limitation awakens the latent powers stored as [[Talent Kernels]], which begin to function outside the being's day-consciousness.{{ref|LB2|408}}

Martinus presents movement from one kingdom to another as the working of hunger and satiation: a being cannot leave a kingdom while its particular form of life still fully satisfies it. When satiation has arisen, longing initiates the next phase of the cosmic cycle.{{ref|LB2|391}}

== Relation to the mineral and plant kingdoms ==

From the standpoint of the being in bliss, the mineral world is not experienced as an outer world with day-conscious beings. Its connection with the outer world is not day-conscious for the being itself. The outward aspect of the kingdom of bliss is nevertheless perceived by terrestrial beings as the mineral kingdom, which they therefore commonly regard as lifeless.{{ref|LB2|410}}

Martinus explains mineral matter as the beginning of the transition from the spiritual to the physical region. The energies released through the beings' memories stimulate talent kernels and automatically initiate the creation of forms capable of supporting physical experience. In this process, instinct energy combines with gravity energy and, through its relation to feeling energy, gives rise to the first visible forms of physical matter, including fire.{{ref|LB2|413}}

The next stage is the [[Plant kingdom]]. A being emerging from the kingdom of bliss begins to acquire the first faint physical sensing through the plant organism. This is an “inkling” or vague experience of pleasure and displeasure, while its proper waking consciousness still lies in the world of memory. As physical sensing develops, the being proceeds towards the animal and human stages of a new spiral cycle.{{ref|TEWP 1|13.18}}

== Paradise and the development of consciousness ==

Martinus relates the kingdom of bliss to the biblical image of paradise and to the figure of Adam. The plant being can be said to live in paradise because it complies with the laws of life. But this is not yet the conscious, intellectual love of a finished human being. The plant-being acts automatically because it has no alternative, not because it has consciously understood and chosen the laws of life.{{ref|LB4|1196}}

Martinus presents the biblical expulsion from paradise as a necessary stage in the creation of the human being in God's image. The being must leave the unconscious or minimally conscious bliss of the early transition, pass through the contrasts of the physical world, and develop knowledge and a free, loving will. In this way the contrast between darkness and light eventually makes possible a higher and more detailed experience of bliss.{{ref|LB4|1196}}

In Martinus' cosmic analysis, the kingdom of bliss is the memory-world in which the sixth basic energy culminates.{{ref|LB1|260}}

== See also ==

* [[Livets Bog]]
* [[The Eternal World Picture]]
* [[Reincarnation]]
* [[Talent Kernels]]

== References ==
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