As I have already related, my spiritual mission began with several psychic experiences the particular structure of which was something entirely private to myself alone. What proved to be of significance to other people was the fact that they left me in a state in which I was able to receive far-reaching knowledge about the whole universe, in fact even the divine world plan was completely laid before my sensory faculty and became awake day consciousness. I was granted the faculty to sense things that it was impossible to experience through mere physical sensing. I saw how every limited thing, irrespective of whatever size it might occupy, revealed infinity and thereby eternity. Eternity thus became visible as the fixed point, while time and thereby space were whatever was moving. As I was thus conscious in eternity I became identical with what was "absolute" and "everlasting" and I saw all things from this "absoluteness" and "everlasting-ness". As I had become conscious in eternity and was identical with immortality I lived beyond any concept of time. I lived both before and after anything whatsoever and could thus see both its alpha and its omega, its beginning and its conclusion, that is, the whole of its life course. And it is this faculty to experience that I have called in my main work Livets Bog (Book of Life), "cosmic consciousness", just as I have called the descriptions of the details of life seen from this observation faculty, "cosmic analyses". These "cosmic analyses" of mine are thus the same as observations made possible as a result of my liberation from time and space. My psychic experiences were a process that in a manner of speaking suddenly brought about this liberation in my consciousness. I had experienced an "initiation". Through this process a change took place with my consciousness. Whereas before I had only been conscious in a certain time and a certain space, I had now become in a certain way conscious in all times and in all spaces. Whereas my consciousness before this experience of mine was an expression of "local consciousness", it had now become an expression of "universal consciousness". And after this change in consciousness I had no problem in finding my bearings with respect to the fate of the living being and thereby the fate of terrestrial mankind. It was no problem for me to see that the whole ocean of sufferings that terrestrial human beings are in the midst of is due exclusively to the fact that they are still not mentally liberated. They are still bound by time, by space and by matter. Their view of life and the world has therefore nothing to do with actual eternal life or the real world plan. At the very most they constitute only the view of a local area of the universe. But to know or sense only a local area and to believe it to be the whole, is the same as to live under an illusion. But to live under illusions is in turn the same as to live in error. And because a life based on errors can give rise only to disappointments we have arrived at the cause of terrestrial mankind's daily existence being a life of disappointment, sorrow and suffering.