Livets Bog (The Book of Life) consists of 7 volumes and is Martinus’ major, central work. Along with The Eternal World Picture vols. 1-4, which contains 44 symbols, it constitutes the core of his description of his spiritually scientific world picture. Nature is the "book of life", whose language the human being is learning to understand. This takes place through, among other things, the experiences of science. Without knowledge of the physical laws of Nature, people would be unable to use the forces of Nature and create modern technology. By also acquiring knowledge of the spiritual laws of Nature, it will gradually be possible for us to understand ourselves and others, and finding meaning, logic and love in existence.

Livets Bog forms the basis for a science of life. It analyses the principles that render our experience of life possible. It shows how our existence is connected with Nature as a whole, and how we create our future, our fate, by the way we think and act today. We are evolving towards becoming "real", completely evolved human beings. The principle of the "right of the stronger", i.e. dictatorship, is undermined in favour of a growing humane attitude to life, i.e. democracy. The dark world events of our time are birth pangs of a future world culture of light, which will lead to a radical transformation of existence for us all.

Volume 1

Volume 1 is an introduction to the whole work and can be recommended for people new to Martinus’ world picture. It contains the Preface to Livets Bog, and describes a series of core elements in the eternal world picture. Includes: the world situation - the divine creative principle - the new world impulse - an international world state in the making - mankind’s receptivity to the new world impulse - basic energies and planes of existence - evolution from animal to man - 8 symbols with explanations. 292 pages.

Volume 3 (English translation currently in preparation)

In volume 3 the description of cosmic chemistry continues with main topics such as: the symbol "The Principle of Cycles", the symbol "The Solution to the Mystery of Life", and an exposition of "63 substances of life". Also includes: Nature as a living being - the meaning of the term "in God’s image" - life as a rhythmical movement between two extremes - how talents and dispositions come into existence - what the number system expresses. 535 pages.

Volume 5 (English translation currently in preparation)

Volume 5 has "The Highest Fire" as its main theme, with focus on Martinus’ core analysis of "the principle of the transformation of the sexual poles". Includes: masculine and feminine beings - beings that are sexual halves and sexual wholes - why the religions cannot save mankind - the meaning of the terms "in God’s image" and "the second coming of Christ" - the animal becomes a human being - marriage and neighbourly love - the happy and unhappy zones of marriage - the various types of human beings: from type A to type K - the "great birth" - the sexual sphere as the alpha and omega of the cosmic cycle. 333 pages.

Volume 7 (Not yet available in English)

Volume 7 has "cosmic world morality" as its main theme with focus on the neighbourly loving way of being that will form the foundation of way of living in the future human kingdom. Includes: intolerance keeps people in a perpetual state of war - when might and not right dictates existence - how the human being can free itself of dark fate - the basis of the cosmic world morality - the creation of true peace as a question of evolution - the experiences of suffering will lead mankind out of the horrors of the day of judgment - the difference between amorous love and neighbourly love - life’s greatest demand on people today - the new world culture has already begun - postscript. 272 pages.