Where then in daily life can we find something which confirms for us the immortality of the living being? Here we must of course first and foremost understand Nature's great processes of creation and, through this understanding, see that there are no coincidences causing creation, controlling and guiding suns and galaxies in the microcosmos and the macrocosmos, deciding the lives and fates of the living beings and so on. This great process of creation is not, in all of life's phenomena, beyond the understanding of the uninitiated human being. It can in vast areas be investigated and checked by the human being's ordinary intellectual abilities. It has many finished results that are one hundred per cent available for the human ability to experience. These finished results of Nature's, which means God's, creation show themselves without exception to be ultimately a joy and a blessing for living beings. To these finished results belong, among other things, our senses. Are not our sight, our sense of smell and taste together with all our other organs of life a blessing for us? Is not the transformation of the earth from a flaming ocean of fire, a raging world conflagration, to its present state as a splendid planet for vegetable and animal living beings a transformation or a creation that is a joy and a blessing for living beings?
      There was a time when the apparently lifeless mineral forms were the only created phenomena on the earth. Then the mineral forms became plant forms. The plant forms developed and became animal forms or animal organisms. The animal organisms became human organisms. So through epochs of evolution lasting millions of years there took place a great creation in matter that resulted in an evolution of organisms for living beings that became more and more perfect. And we see that this transformation is still going on. Behind all these outer phenomena or organisms there is "Something" that experiences through these organisms. This "Something", together with an organism to which it is connected, constitute what we know as "a living being". This entire great process of evolution is thus experienced by living beings. For animals and people this experience is more wakefully day-conscious than for plants. Within the area of human beings we also see that the people of today do not live in that ignorance and primitiveness in which, for example, our Stone Age forefathers lived. They had to live in holes and caves; they did not have the fine, soft materials for making clothes with which we are blessed today; they had none of the benefits of technology that mankind today has so abundantly at his disposal. We are born to modern conditions, splendid houses, means of transport and machines that can work for people. We are born to the beginnings of civilised circumstances, to physical knowledge and ability that lie enormously high in relation to the living conditions of prehistoric man. There are, however, still many unpleasant things and inconveniences from which people suffer today, but from which people of the future will be totally free. These people will come to stand just as high above the human beings of today as human beings are above the people of nature in the primordial forest or in innermost Africa. At the same time we see that this evolution also changes the living being's mentality and perception of life from brutality to humaneness. Whereas, at a certain stage in the past, one believed that destroying one's enemies or oppressing them with force was glorious, was a totally fitting form of worship of God, one now begins to be disgusted with that form of worship of God, and that form of existence. And today people want truly lasting peace on Earth. When they make war it is because they really cannot imagine any other way to the salvation or the liberation from war and catastrophe that they desire from the bottom of their hearts. There begins, however, a great unfolding of power in favour of the building of a true road to peace through peaceful means and not through war. But quite apart from this, the majority of people today live under much nearer to perfect and much healthier conditions than people in the past. The wish for peace and justice for all people grow and spread over the entire earth. This entire great process of evolution to which all living beings are subject can be likened to a great river whose waters lead from dark and sinister underground caves and forward to light and beautiful sunlit regions. It confirms that God leads all living beings towards the light.