Some human beings have for a time lost the faculty to experience through one or more of these sense organs, because these have been destroyed in this incarnation, or because in previous incarnations they have destroyed one or more of their talents to perceive. These talents, however, will be rebuilt in coming incarnations so these human beings are only temporarily excluded from one or more of the worlds which are being experienced through physical sensing. But as long as a being is not able to see, the worlds of light and colours must be an abstract world to him (her). Other people can tell the blind one about this world, whereby he can indirectly get some knowledge of it. This just means that through the world of sound, i.e. other people's talk, he learns something of a world which he at the moment is not able to experience directly. Through Braille writing he is perhaps able to read about a world which he cannot see, and through his finely developed faculty of feeling he gets in this way a feeble idea about light and colours. The faculty of hearing and feeling generally becomes sharpened in people who cannot see. Blind people are often very musical, and they are able to develop a faculty to experience with the sense of touch which is not usual to people with normal sight. They can feel beauty by their sensation of smooth or rough surfaces or angular or round forms. To feel something cold and something hot, something wet and something dry, may be of much more importance in the life of a blind person than is the case for the one with normal sight. It is a matter of course that this very developed faculty of touch also follows the concerned person in coming incarnations, where the visual power again is developed and, therefore, some people with normal vision also possess this fine sense of touch, people with a special understanding for blind people and who perhaps devote their lives to helping them.

To terrestrial man it is not normal not to be able to see or not to be able to experience life through one or another of his sense organs. But around us on this earth forms of life are found which only possess germinating faculties of those which are developed as sense organs in terrestrial man. The plants have neither sight nor hearing, neither can they smell nor taste; and though they may be in possession of a sense of touch, they cannot feel in the sense of the word we call feeling. They can sense instinctively pleasantness and unpleasantness, but to them the outer world is a world without details. Whether the pleasure or displeasure they sense instinctively is due to cold or heat, drought or moisture, they cannot make out. Only at the stage of the animal does the living being begin to sense details in the outer world, and little by little it begins to distinguish the cause of pleasure and displeasure. This developing faculty of discrimination will form the base of a further creation of sensory faculties, through which the living being has the possibility to experience detailed causes and effects in continuously greater perspectives in time and space. Right from the world of the crystals, through the forms of plants and animals and forward to primitive man and then to civilized man, the impartial researcher will be able to notice a development based on the faculty to experience through more and more sensory dimensions, and the great question will then be - is evolution to stop with terrestrial man?

The one who maintains that evolution must stop here is against the whole of nature or the voice of life itself. He will only be able to support his claim with a figment of the brain - the result of an illogical imagination. He will be the author of postulates or dogmas whose statement is not in contact with the truth or reality surrounding him. For this he cannot be blamed, of course, because he does not know what he is doing. He is like the blind one who maintains that the worlds of light and colours do not exist. And no one would blame a blind man if he brought forth such a claim. It is possible to guide him by telling him about the world which he cannot see, and then he must himself come to a decision as to the question. When development is tantamount to an expansion of the faculty to experience and thus an experience of continuously new sense regions, and when it is illogical to believe that evolution will stop with the civilized terrestrial man, then it would be tantamount to the fact that there do exist sense regions which terrestrial man generally is unable to experience, because he has not yet developed sense organs with which to experience these regions or worlds. In relation to these sense regions terrestrial man is "blind" and "deaf". Just as the blind are able to find out something about the worlds of light and colours through his hearing and feeling, through other's voices and by reading Braille writing, thus also can the cosmic "blind" terrestrial man get theoretical knowledge about the higher sense dimensions for which he has not yet organs sufficiently developed with which to correspond. So it can only take place in the way that the beings knowing these worlds, tell about them. This is what has happened through the religions telling us about higher worlds and higher developed beings than terrestrial man. This feeling of higher forms of life and higher worlds and the feeling that a Godhead or a Providence do exist, is not, as some may think, a result of man's wishful dreams and imagination. True enough, the picture or the pictures that man at more or less primitive stages forms of his Gods or God, of angels, devils, etc. , are dependent on his temporary ideals and his faculty of imagination and fancy, but the instinctive feeling that higher worlds, higher powers and a highest power do exist is the product of an organic function in the same way as the faculty of the plant instinctively to sense pleasure and displeasure is a result of an organic function. And just as the plant's power of instinctive sensing will develop and become a detailed day-conscious sensory experience, so will also through development of man's power instinctively to sense the existence of a higher world lead forward to a day-conscious experience of new sensory dimensions .

Now, when terrestrial man has such an organic function which gives him an inkling of a higher world with a higher meaning existing behind the physical existence, why, then, are there more and more people who cannot be inspired by the religions, but who, on the contrary, turn away from them? That is quite natural and it will become still more so. And however strange it may seem the cause is just the mentioned organic function in terrestrial man. In many people it no longer manifests itself as a religious, but as a humane faculty in conjunction with a faculty to give thought to life and its laws. Such people do not feel content with mythology or with religious dogmas, ceremonies and blind belief in holy books. They have a need of another kind of spiritual nourishment, which both enriches their life of feeling, satisfies their intelligence and develops their beginning intuitive faculty. They have come to a stage in evolution where they themselves need contact with a higher sense dimension, where they need another kind of guidance than the "cosmic Braille writing", i.e. the dogmatically religious form. When terrestrial man's organic function - for a long time, as a religious instinct, the ruler of his way of life - no more has the possibility to display itself through religious worship, it at first makes its own way through purely materialistic worship. In form of political parties we experience this materialistic worship. All politics is a product of that same religious primitive instinct which has created and promoted the religions. It may also be noted that many political movements are just as fantastic, dogmatic and without any logical reason as many religious assertions, which are based only on feeling. Physical science is another very essential manifestation of the religious primitive instinct in man, when he has developed intellectually. The hunger for knowledge that makes man search for satisfaction by exploring the living beings' organisms and the physical laws of the universe is - without the researchers themselves knowing it - based on the desire of the religious instinct to penetrate to the highest understanding of life, to the solution of life's mystery. When people become interested in politics, it is because in churches and temples and ecclesiastical authorities they cannot find a solution to the problems which are of current interest to them. And when they leave politics - which many people actually do in our time - then it is also because political life does not either satisfy their humane and idealistic wishes, which were contributory to leading them into politics. The most prominent among the researchers of physical science have come to recognize that through physical investigation one can reach to a certain limit and no further. It is no longer as it was in the beginning of this century, when it was thought that telescopes and microscopes etc. , would be able to solve all the riddles of life. With these instruments our physical sensory organs have been prolonged and gigantic and microscopic worlds have been unveiled. This has prepared the way for a new understanding of the universe, as physical science in actual fact finds itself at the border of being able to apprehend eternity.

It is, however, only at the border of such an understanding that physical science finds itself. Man is still bound by two heavy obstacles - namely, time and space. With man's present sensory faculty he can only perceive things within a certain limit. He can only perceive results from weights and measures, which means that he can only recognize things that are produced or created. All that man is able to sense are only things outside himself, but that which is himself he cannot sense.. That "Something" constituting himself belongs to another sensory dimension than the one which he masters at the moment. But just as light and colours are not something unreal because a person has no faculty of sight - it is there all the same to be experienced when the being is sufficiently developed - so is this higher sensory dimension, which not only allows one to observe all creation in time and space, but also to experience the creator of the things, time and space, something which awaits every living being. This sensory faculty is the great goal behind all life's present troubles. This faculty will make the experience of existence quite different; to man it will radiate in quite another light. In this light he will acknowledge that "everything is very good", and from this sensory dimension the mentioned biblical expression comes. From this sensory dimension all great religious truths have come, because the people who brought them to man had the faculty to experience it. They had to transform their knowledge into a form usable to other human beings, and thereby the "cosmic Braille writing" came into existence. But now when many people's cosmic set of senses is being developed, another kind of help is needed. When man has been through the materialistic belief that physical matter is the primary factor in the world, he is longing for spiritual knowledge that may be connected with logic; and when the discord and misery ruling the world have opened his eyes for the necessity of humaneness and charity, he is mature for cosmic knowledge. And then spiritual science will be useful because it analyses the new sensory realm. What, then, is this new sensory realm with which terrestrial man will come into contact? This sensory realm in reality is hidden behind all that comes under the concept of eternity. It is the first expression of the new world. When people get cosmic consciousness, they sense eternity and infinity and they experience their own "I" as being one with eternity. They understand the fact that consciousness, bodies, time and space are something which continuously are undergoing transformation: it is movement. And the contrast to all these movements in consciousness, in substance, in time and in space, is stillness. Stillness is the fixed point, that which they experience as their "I"; it is immortality and eternity; it is that "Something" which makes them one with the Father, as Christ expressed it from his own experience of cosmic consciousness.

But how can anyone say that "everything is very good" when there is all this strife and distress and misery in the world of terrestrial man? It is possible to say so because from the cosmic vantage point, from the perspective of eternity, it is possible to see that wars, illnesses and other sufferings gradually influence and transform egotistical terrestrial man into a being who is longing for peace and charity, and gradually he himself begins to display those characteristics and talents which create peace. Viewed from the perspective of eternity, one life from birth to the grave is like a small step on a long ladder of evolution. It cannot be dispensed with but, on the other hand, it is only a small detail in the living being's eternal existence.