There are two principles that we are all closely attached to, namely, "experience" and "creation". The ability to experience and the ability to create are the two conditions necessary in order that we can appear as living beings. From the moment we wake up in the morning until we fall asleep in the evening we cannot avoid experiencing and creating. Even when we are ill and are confined to bed, experiences are streaming through our brain, and we are forming thoughts and ideas that we to a greater or lesser extent transfer into creation in physical matter. This process of experiencing and creating makes up our consciousness or psyche. Every one of us therefore constitutes "something" that experiences and creates life through a consciousness. What we see when we look at one another is not this "something" that we can call the I, that is to say, the creator or experiencer. On the contrary, we are to one another organisms. But is not such an organism the same as the I or the living being's self? No, the organism cannot possibly be identical to the living being's I. The organism is a created thing; it is the product of a creator. But the creator in itself cannot possibly constitute a created thing. A created thing cannot invent and carry out a logical creation. A house, a car, a sewing machine or a suit cannot invent a camera, an aeroplane, an electronic brain or a sputnik. This is perfectly clear, so clear that to us it is complete nonsense to even suggest it. Nevertheless in accepting the view that the living being is identical to its organism, human beings are admitting to this sort of absurd reasoning. If an artist or an engineer accepts the view that he is identical to his organism, it implies that when he creates something it is merely a created thing that is creating this thing. It is completely illogical, as one created thing cannot create another. A created phenomenon can only come into existence as a result of an ability that only a "living something" can have. What is this ability? It is the ability to think of or plan a logical creation. This ability we usually call "intelligence".

Intelligence is an ability that is immensely significant to the human being, but it would have no significance at all if this human being or "living something" did not have a sensory ability through which it could experience and form its own knowledge and personal experience. But knowledge and experience would also not mean very much if the "living something" did not have the ability that we call memory. How else would it be able to accumulate and reproduce the knowledge or the personal experience in its awake day-consciousness that it has gained as a result of previous experiences? Without such an ability to reproduce, planning a logical creation of any sort would be a total impossibility. But as well as his intelligence and memory the thinking human being also possesses a higher ability with the help of which he can experience that aspect of life that lies beyond the physical world and that is therefore completely inaccessible to ordinary, materialistic research that is guided by intelligence. It has to be said that it is an ability that terrestrial human beings are still not particularly able to use. It is called "intuition" and it is more or less latent in the terrestrial human being's consciousness, but it is nevertheless there. When someone has a bright idea that hits him like a bolt of lightning, it is intuition that is at work. He is quite unaware that it comes from a different plane than the physical, from the world of ideas that lies beyond the physical plane.

As well as the physical body we also have another area of this apparatus, an area that is inaccessible to the physical senses. It is the part that constitutes what we call the mind or the psyche. Whereas human beings see the physical body as constituting to a certain extent a day-conscious apparatus, the soul on the other hand constitutes a more unconscious apparatus. The day-consciousness itself is not located in the physical body – this body being nothing but an organ through which one can experience and create – it is rooted in the spiritual apparatus that is also where that part of the human consciousness that I call the "night-consciousness" is located. This could also be called the "mental day-consciousness" in contrast to the "physical day-consciousness", but because terrestrial human beings at present only have a dream-like connection to this part of their consciousness when they are awake on the physical plane, I have chosen to call it the "night-consciousness".

In the fate element and consequently in the superconsciousness are also found the eternal set of organs that make it possible for us actually to experience life. This set of organs consists of the talent kernels for the sending and receiving of energy, two poles upon whose mutual interaction all unfolding of life and experience depends. These are the living being's "masculine pole" and "feminine pole". They form the basis of the creation of all contrasts and thereby of all sensing. All darkness, war, hatred, sorrow and suffering, from the smallest to the greatest phenomena that can be sensed, is created through these two poles, just as it is also through the constellation of these poles that the highest light, the greatest wellbeing, the strongest love and the most intense experience of bliss can be created. Without the existence of these two poles all experience of life would be totally impossible. It is therefore due to the different constellations of the poles in the living beings that they find themselves at different stages in the cosmic spiral cycles. The constellation between the poles determines whether the living being appears as a plant, an animal or a human being, or constitutes an even higher form of life. And of course it is also these two poles that decide whether the being appears as a masculine or a feminine being, or as a being that has the two poles in balance and therefore appears as a double-poled being.

As the living being's I and superconsciousness do not constitute results of a creator, they cannot be identical to created things, and consequently terrestrial human beings cannot directly sense and experience them like other created things. But by using the created things that are accessible to the senses, such as the beings' physical organisms with their complex but ingenious structure, advanced terrestrial human beings can theoretically acknowledge the existence of the superconsciousness and the I or the creator. The true, absolute experience of the eternal existence of the I and the superconsciousness can only come about through the highest sensory ability, the intuition, but this will not start to function in a truly day-conscious way in terrestrial human beings until they have reached a far higher capacity concerning human morality and humane behaviour in their everyday lives than they now represent. As a result of our I and our superconsciousness, the apparatus of which exists beyond time and space, every single living being constitutes an inextinguishable, eternal, unique individual that can in all eternity create mental and physical bodies with which to give expression to life and to experience in a creative way. But just as the living being can build up, it can also break down, and on their present evolutionary step terrestrial human beings almost break down more than they build up. What are our countless hospitals and homes for the mentally disabled other than "concentration camps" for broken down physical and mental organisms? We try to "patch up" and "repair" as well as we can, and in its way it is admirable what doctors and nurses with patience and skill can do. But as long as human beings know nothing of their own cosmic structure, all one will be able to achieve will be mere "patching up". In order to eliminate an illness, one has to eliminate its cause, and the cause of all illnesses, physical illnesses included, lies in the mental or spiritual structure, where tensions and short-circuits have arisen owing to the fact that – and this is the root cause of the illness – the radiation from certain talents and abilities in the talent-kernels in the superconsciousness are directly opposing one another instead of working in a way that benefits the whole.

Behind that part of the living being that we experience, either directly or indirectly, with our physical senses there exists a part that is inaccessible to the senses and to the intelligence. We can also say that behind the time- and space-dimensional organism and mind (for the mind is also time- and space-dimensional even though in a different way than the physical body) there exists a non-time- and space-dimensional part of the being: the I and the apparatus of its superconsciousness. Seen from the viewpoint of the highest analysis one cannot say anything about the superconsciousness other than that it is "something that is". It is an eternal, unchangeable, cosmic principle. It has the same analysis as the I, and this means that the I and the superconsciousness together make up an inseparable entity. This entity constitutes the true living being behind the mental and physical areas of the organism. It is the absolute fixed point in the living being, and it is from this fixed point that the being is able to build up again and again new organisms in psychic (ray-formed) and physical matter.

Both what we call "conception" and what we call "death" are effects of the I's transformation of matter. But of course the I does not create transformations in physical matter alone. The physical transformations are really secondary compared to the I's transformation of mental or ray-formed matter. The living being's mental, inner life is constantly in motion. Thoughts, feelings, memory and intuition are all forms of movement, and movement implies transformation. How much transformation a human being undergoes, in the purely mental sense, from childhood to adulthood! This transformation is due to the I moving mental matter. That the mental organs are subject to beginning and ending is not experienced by the living being as a form of "death", but as what it really is, a transformation in which there are beginnings and endings, but in which every single ending is followed by a new beginning.

Every created thing has to be built up out of some sort of material, whether mental or physical. One cannot create something out of nothing. But the material with which to work and create also exists, as already mentioned, as an eternal reality. The mother energy exists in six basic variations of energy, which I have named: instinct, gravity, feeling, intelligence, intuition and memory. These six basic vibrations of the mother energy, or so-called "six basic energies", are available to the living being in all eternity, because all living beings possess in their fate element permanent talent kernels, or, as I have called them, "spiral centres", from which it is constantly possible to combine these energies into new variations of matter that partly form mental and physical organs and bodies, and partly use the apparatus of these organs and bodies to manifest a creative process that lies beyond the living being's own mental and physical area.

All matter, whether from the terrestrial human perspective it is solid, liquid, gaseous or ray-formed, or whether it is known as organic or inorganic, consists of the organisms and power centres of living micro-beings. Everything is living, due to the fact that the universe is made up of living beings within living beings, which form universes and matter for one another. The terrestrial human being is at the same time both a macro- and a micro-being, since its organism, both the physical and the mental part, forms a physical and ray-formed universe for myriads of living micro-beings that live, move and have their being either as physical cells, molecules, atoms etc., or when they are "dead", as ray-formed particles in the terrestrial human being's mental organ structure. The same conditions are present in the way the terrestrial human being relates as a micro-being in the physical and ray-formed organisms of the terrestrial globe, the solar system and the milky way, as also these heavenly bodies are, with their radiation, bearers of living beings' abilities to create and experience. When we are physically incarnated we are physical particles in these macro-individuals physical bodies, whereas when we are "dead" we are ray-formed particles in their mental bodies and continue to have our own individual consciousness, even though it is not physical day-consciousness, until we once again create an organism in physical matter with the help of the material that a pair of prospective parents make available to us.

As we have already mentioned, doctors and nurses contribute a great deal with their skill, but normally they are limited to carrying out physical repairs and patching up. True recovery lies in the prevention of the illness, and that is something that only the individual himself can create. He can try to avoid mental short-circuits. As we have said, mental short-circuits are a result of radiations from certain talent kernels in the superconsciousness working, through the mental and physical organs, against one another instead of in cooperation. This gives rise to mental conflicts. It is as if opposing thoughts and feelings are trying to kill, undermine or eliminate one another. And it is quite natural that they should do so because terrestrial human beings are at a transitional stage between animal and true human being and they still possess quite a number of talent kernels that they have developed through the animal kingdom and their states as primitive human beings, and yet at the same time they have the beginnings of human or humane talents, of which some are perhaps still only at the A-stage – the stage of being a wish or a longing – while others have reached the B-stage and are the initial stages of an ability. But as the animal talents will degenerate from a C-stage – the stage of brilliance – where they function automatically, it is quite understandable that, as St Paul put it, "the good that I would I do not, but the evil which I would not that I do". But how can a natural state, that of being a transitional being, lead to something unnatural, such as mental short-circuits, stress, mental breakdown, ulcers, heart conditions, cancer and much more? Owing to the fact that the human being creates excessive tensions in his nervous system, either by fanatically demanding too much of himself all at once, or by giving in, also excessively, to jealousy, envy, anger, irritation, disappointment and other such mental climates consisting of coarse thought matter, the material that makes up the human beings' nerve fibres and certain other organs, and which at present habitually vibrates on a wavelength with the person's constructive ideas and humane feelings, is broken down by the coarse vibrations. From one incarnation to the next it is also possible to sow the seeds of a destructive fate by destroying, through excessive consumption of alcohol, tobacco or narcotics, one's talent kernels for building up a new physical body. This can in the worst case cause one to be born with a mental deficiency in one's next life, a state that is however also only temporary, even though it can last for several incarnations before one once again has the ability to build up a normal nervous system and body. The essential thing in life is therefore this: to try not to think badly of other people, but to forgive them. To try to see the positive side of every situation, including what one can learn from it. To love God above all things and one's neighbour as oneself, which is the fulfilment of all the laws – this is the best possible form of mental hygiene and the most infallible means of counteracting mental short-circuits. God is the entire living universe, whose loving creative forces are to be found absolutely everywhere, and these forces are able to give human beings strength, ideas and patience if they open up in prayer to them. And as our neighbour is the Godhead's organs, we also love God by loving our neighbour. One loves oneself by ridding oneself of dark feelings and thoughts, in the same way that one washes one's body. It is extremely important that human beings learn that in reality they are masters of time and space, and that they can change their own fate, and gradually the fate of the whole of mankind, by overcoming the animal forces in their own temperament, forces that, once intellectualised, turn into "devil consciousness" and can create such tensions in an otherwise refined nervous system that the result can be not only small short circuits but catastrophic mental states that it can take several lives to restore.