Mother energy

Mother energy is Martinus’ name for the seventh basic energy. In his analyses, it belongs to the living being’s eternal creative structure, the superconsciousness, which he also analyses through X1 and X2. It is the basis through which the other six basic energies are combined and used in the being’s experience and manifestation of life.

The seventh basic energy

Martinus distinguishes six basic energies that provide the material for temporal bodies, mentality, experience and creation: instinct, gravity, feeling, intelligence, intuition and memory. The mother energy is the seventh. Its special role is to provide the material for what is eternal in relation to the I, including the faculties, abilities and talents that are carried from one temporal life to another.

This is why the name mother energy refers to its foundational position. Martinus writes that the other energies are, in a certain sense, subject to it because it forms the basis for the I’s use of them. In Martinus’ terminology, it is the energy that provides the foundation for using the other energies.

A summary in Livets Bog places the seven energies in a spectrum-like order. The six first energies correspond to six planes of existence, while the mother energy is associated with the “Plane of eternity” and the colour violet. The six planes are respectively related to instinct and the plant kingdom, gravity and the animal kingdom, feeling and the real human kingdom, intelligence and the kingdom of wisdom, intuition and the divine world, and memory and the kingdom of bliss.

Relation to the superconsciousness

Martinus presents the living being through three principles and uses the terms X1, X2 and X3 for them. X1 is associated with the fixed point or I, X2 with the creative principle, and X3 with the created aspect. In a later formulation, the superconsciousness comprises X1 and X2, and the mother energy unfolds in X2 as the material and power of the creative structure.

In The Eternal World Picture, Martinus calls the mother energy the “motive power and substance” of the superconsciousness. Through the structure called the fate element, it connects the I’s identity as a fixed point with movement, which is the changing side of manifestation.

Martinus also describes the superconsciousness as consisting, analytically, of the I, the primordial desire and the fate element. The primordial desire is the eternal desire to manifest life, and the fate element is the organ or “tool” in which the superconsciousness is rooted. The mother energy is the supporting energy through which this structure can react with the other basic energies and maintain the being’s individuality.

How it governs experience and creation

The mother energy maintains the conditions under which the other energies can be released in changing combinations. Martinus describes the six basic energies as having eternal centres, or Talent Kernels, in the fate element. Through these centres and their linking organs, changing combinations of the energies arise; these combinations form the different spheres of consciousness and planes of existence. The resulting day-conscious experience takes place through the subconsciousness, which is the extension of the superconsciousness into the temporal and spatial world.

Martinus also distinguishes the organs of the superconsciousness from those of the subconsciousness: the former, including the fate element and talent kernels, exist in the mother energy, while the physical body and the other bodies used for manifestation belong to the six other basic energies.

In this sense, the mother energy is the underlying condition for both experience and creation. Martinus explains, in the discussion of the fate element, that through the mother energy the primordial desire is connected with the basic energies. The I can then build up a body through which it gradually masters and combines the other energies, producing its different forms of consciousness and manifestation.

The six energies are not isolated forces. Martinus describes their changing relationship in terms of culmination, latency, and stages of increase and decrease. The mother energy is the foundation for this ordered rhythm and regulates the cycles by which the other energies reach their culmination and later become latent.

An eternal and “ray-formed” energy

A distinctive feature of the mother energy is that Martinus does not describe it as passing through the same material states as the other energies. In Livets Bog 4, he says that it cannot become solid, liquid or gaseous, and that it remains “ray-formed”. Its existence can therefore be sensed only indirectly, as a creative faculty behind substances and forms.

This creative faculty functions whether the being is physically embodied or discarnate, and whether it is asleep or awake. Martinus consequently identifies the creative faculty, or mother energy, with the living being’s superconsciousness. The energy’s action is thus described in relation to both embodied and discarnate existence and to both waking and sleeping conditions.

Because the mother energy belongs to the eternal structure, Martinus associates it with what survives the destruction of a physical organism. The talent kernels, which have their seat in the fate element, preserve the being’s abilities and talents and can cooperate in the formation of a new organism. This is the cosmic mechanism Martinus calls Reincarnation.

Primordial desire and the six energies

Martinus links the mother energy with the primordial desire, an unconscious and automatic tendency that has functioned eternally. Through the pole constellation, this desire initiates the creation of consciousness. It is connected with the six basic talent kernels in the fate element, which function as centres of force for the six energies.

In a later summary, Martinus describes the mother energy as permeated by an eternal desire for life. Through it, this desire is divided into the six other basic energies. The pole organs and the associated talent kernels then promote instinct, gravity, feeling, intelligence, intuition and memory, each of which becomes a particular organ of consciousness. Together these organs form the being’s sensory faculty and consciousness.

The mother energy therefore has a different function from the six energies that form the changing planes of existence. It is the energy that makes the sixfold structure of changing experience possible while remaining connected with the eternal creative principle. Martinus describes it as a creative faculty behind substances and forms, while the changing bodies used for manifestation belong to the other basic energies.

Cosmic “solar energy”

Martinus compares the mother energy with the sun as the power behind physical seasons. In the analogy, it is the power behind the cosmic seasons, meaning the changing constellations of the seven basic energies. He calls it the “solar energy” of cosmic existence and says that it is the basis of the different thought-climates through which living beings reveal consciousness and manifest life.

Martinus therefore presents the mother energy as the central power that gives the other energies their changing context and rhythm. Through their combinations, the living being moves through changing forms of experience while its eternal creative structure remains the foundation of its existence.