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Symbol 32: The Twelve Basic Answers or the Solution to the Mystery of Life
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Symbol 32

A Summary Explanation of Symbol No. 32 - The Twelve Basic Answers or the Solution to the Mystery of Life

The symbol symbolises the solution to the mystery of life. The all-embracing, real, great truth about life is that one should love God above all things and one’s neighbour as oneself. The universe is one single great organism for a living being that exists under the concept of God. Through this great organism or the universe the Godhead constitutes a single, eternal and infinitely existing being of light and love in which all living beings live and move and have their being.

See also Martinus' description of symbol no. 32 in The Eternal World Picture 3.

The main details of the symbol:

  • The star shape symbolises that the solution to the mystery of life is a revelation of an all-outshining divine light based on culminating harmony, wisdom and love. The solution to the mystery of life will be a shining and warming mental sunrise in the mind and thoughts of every single as yet unfinished human being, an inspiring and life-giving feeling of the presence of God.
  • The orange section that forms the outermost border of the symbol symbolises the energy of gravity, the killing principle or the domain of darkness.
  • Then there is a green area symbolising intelligence, and a yellow area symbolising feeling. When these two energies of consciousness are merged to form a unit, it means that they symbolise intellectualised feeling, which is the same as love. The yellow-green area thus symbolises the domain of light.
  • The yellow-green area also symbolises the two major, main organs of the highest fire: the feminine pole (yellow) and the masculine pole (green). The masculine pole clearly preponderates and thus symbolises a male being. The male beings and female beings are beings in which only one of the two poles is fully developed.
  • The central figure in the middle symbolises the double-poled being. The innermost yellow-green figure symbolises the being’s ordinary pole; the other yellow-green figure symbolises its opposite pole. The masculine and feminine principle have merged to become a harmonious, balanced unit. The being is no longer a specifically male being or a specifically female being.
  • The twelve star sections symbolise twelve basic answers that together represent the solution to the mystery of life. The twelve basic answers can be briefly characterised as follows:
    • Star section no. 1: “Something that is” or the existence of the universe.
    • Star section no. 2: Cause and effect. The universe’s ocean of movement constitutes a chain of cause and effect.
    • Star section no. 3: Logic and regularity. All processes of creation are ultimately a joy and blessing for living beings.
    • Star section no. 4: The creation of ideas or thinking. There is consciousness behind all the processes of creation.
    • Star section no. 5: The existence of the living being.
    • Star section no. 6: I and it. The living being’s conscious experience of being able to differentiate between itself and its surroundings.
    • Star section no. 7: The I ? the causeless cause. The I is a “something” that is not an effect of a previous cause.
    • Star section no. 8: The triune principle. The I, the faculty to create and that which is created.
    • Star section no. 9: Beings within beings. The main principle of the body of God.
    • Star section no. 10: The immorality of the living being, the spiral cycle.
    • Star section no. 11: The law of karma or fate.
    • Star section no. 12: Everything is very good. The highest view of life.
See also