The Road of Life
The article: The Road of Life
Chapter 6
The living being as an eternal creator with an eternal ability to experience
Everything that is movement is creation.
And everything that is creation is the product of a
creator.
The creator cannot therefore be identical with what is
created.
He existed before creation, and existed during the existence of creation, and will continue to exist after the destruction or cessation of what is created.
He cannot therefore be identical with time and space.
Only that which is created can have a beginning and an end, an origin and a termination.
The creator cannot therefore have any age whatsoever, just as he cannot either have any size, for only what is created can have size.
The creator thus constitutes the real living being and is thus an eternal reality.
This reality we experience as our own highest
Self or
I.
This I has, as we have already touched upon, an eternal capacity to experience.
With it, it can shape matter into a temporary organism or instrument for its attachment to matter and here form created things.
This creation is the same as the manifestation and experience of life.
This manifestation and experience of life is in turn the same as the previously mentioned travelling on the Road of Life, through alternate dark and light zones.
But as this travelling is a created phenomenon, it constitutes something that can only take place in matter, for only in matter can things be created.
The I thus brings about its own manifestation and experience, as well as its organism, in matter.
By virtue of its psychic structure the I can transport the organism from place to place, but it does not itself move a single millimetre out of place.
It can experience the coming into being of its physical organism, just as it can experience the end of this organism.
But here too it is in itself totally untouched by this birth and death.
It is beyond all time and space dimensional or created things or phenomena.
It is not identical with these and is thus not identical with its created organism either.
The aforesaid organism is thus not something that the I is.
It can absolutely only be something the I has created or produced.
The I and its
superconsciousness (the latter meaning the eternal structure beyond time and space – like the I – with which it is able to attach itself to matter and in this create its organisms or instruments for the manifestation and experience of life) constitute the really sovereign and immortal or eternal living being behind all forms of manifestation or creation.
It is in itself inaccessible for sensory perception.
It can show its existence only through its productions or creations in matter, just as it can experience the manifestations of other living beings only through their productions or creations in matter.
And it is only these productions we sense or experience.
We have never seen or experienced the living beings themselves or the sources of the aforesaid creations or productions in matter, and we will never come to see them.
They are, like the Godhead, with whom they are also identical, beyond all sensory perception.
They can, like the Godhead, be recognised only through the things they produce or create in matter.
They thus, together with the Godhead, constitute the invisible but living causes of the infinite ocean of combinations of movements in matter that, for the senses, become the infinite profusion of
created details that constitute the eternal divine revelation we call the
universe.