One reason only lies behind the great Armageddon, the state of misery and suffering, the war of all against all, which the world today sighs and groans under: ignorance. Within terrestrial human materialistic science, one gropes blindly, believing the world picture is something that can be sensed in the same way as one can sense, measure and weigh a stone, a cloud or a drop of water. And over the course of time, many strange conclusions have already been established as expressions of a world picture. Thus, one speaks of the world picture as something limited, something that is finite and therefore must constitute a particular space. Likewise, people speak of all the stars, suns and galaxies being on a wild exodus from each other, which for the said materialistic researchers must mean that the universe, the spatial world picture, is in intense dissolution. Stronger and stronger binoculars, telescopes and microscopes are built to observe the secret of the universe, only to discover that this expansion of the material horizon is merely a corresponding expansion or enlargement of one's already prominent ignorance regarding the secret of life.

The solution to the mystery of life is not a question of terrain, time and space. It is not a question of kilometres or kilograms. It is not simply a question of what can be weighed and measured. Rather it is exclusively a question of what can be weighed and measured, i.e. the "something" that can ascertain measurement and weight, that which can break down and build up, that which can create, that in which question and answer can arise. There is no reason to observe with a microscope or telescope, with the aim of finding the solution to the mystery of life, that in which question and answer cannot arise, for it will continue to constitute the illusion it already is, namely a lifeless mass. And it is therefore with ingenious optical instruments that one peers into this presumably lifeless mass: the macrocosmos and the microcosmos. Through huge telescopes, one stares thousands of light-years into space to find the "something", which, in reality, stands behind the telescope, inquisitively searching for itself in galaxies. Similarly, one looks through microscopes into the unfathomable tiny parts of the microcosmos to find the "something" that is staring down through the microscope with tremendous excitement and curiosity. Why scout out into space for "something" that exists inside ourselves? Is it not clearly visible that it must be the wrong path to follow? One cannot be in front of and behind a pair of binoculars at once. And why look for oneself with a microscope in unfathomable tiny parts, when one's own life or the "something" one seeks is so great that it can hold the microscope and can be observed much more easily without it? – Is it not clearly visible here that the path of materialistic science to the world picture is led by illusion, superstition and naivety?

To seek in the microcosmos and macrocosmos for the solution to the enigma we ourselves are can be only foolish, as the life, the thinking and the experiencing "something" that we ourselves constitute is the centre of the universe. The more we distance ourselves from this centre, the more we distance ourselves from ourselves or from the life whose secret we wish to unearth. That which is the foundation or first cause of the universe or the visible phenomena cannot be the nature of these phenomena, or the manifestation or movement they constitute, but rather the fixed point on which they rest. Do the movements then rest on such a fixed point? Yes, absolutely. But to gain clarity of this, one must likewise here seek approximation to the realm within our perception in which this is to be experienced without a microscope or other aids, and not, as is common in materialistic science, to distance oneself as much as possible from the exact same realm. For every time you employ the aid of binoculars or a microscope, you distance yourself from the object you want to examine by precisely as much as the strength of the aforementioned instruments extends your view into the microcosmos and macrocosmos. As every living being bears the secret of the mystery of life within its own interior, it must be plainly obvious that this is where it must be sought. The most fundamental sense of this mystery of life, however, is the sense of being the centre of the universe, which we all feel and constitute. We experience this centre as our own self or I. It is from this centre, this self or I, that we judge everything and everyone. This centre is thus the highest living being within us. It is this which determines our appearance; it directs our will and experiences our sensory perception. We thereby see that movement exists around this I. This I thus becomes visible as the fixed point on which the movements rest.

A living being thus constitutes a particular realm consisting of its I, its consciousness and its organism. These three taken together form a unit. Within this unit, we have the whole mystery of life and hence the secret of the universe. No principles or types of movement are to be found outside such a unit which do not constitute localities or parts of other equivalent units. As one forms such a unit oneself, one can just as easily – indeed, it would be the absolutely only correct path to take – examine this unit as an object for one's research into the mystery of life or search for the secret of life.