But it is, as previously mentioned, not only in the day, the year and the earthly life that we see this principle of repetition or of cycles revealed. We are witness to the fact that water, for example, is by turns a puddle of sewage, runs through the layers of soil and here becomes filtered once more, becomes crystal-clear drinking water, becomes the fresh air we breathe, indeed contributes to creating the blue sky as well as the red glow of sunrise and sunset in order again to become rain, a pool of sewage and again to become the pure air and sunlit sky, and so on continuously.

Are not all the various phases of substances likewise to be divided into the four interchangeable stages in Nature's great cycle, which we term the solid, the liquid, the gaseous and the ray-formed? Does one believe that there is any substance that does not pass through these stages? Nature is thus so abundantly filled with or penetrated by the principle of cycles or of repetition that no manifestation can take place without being a detail or a link in a cycle. This holds true in microcosmos and macrocosmos as well as in mesocosmos. We understand therefore that we are surrounded by cycles or manifestations of repetition of dimensions so huge that a mere single detail in these constitutes a space of time or a lifetime in relation to which the existence of our own present earthly life can only be regarded as an imperceptible fraction of a second. Equally there are of course cycles or manifestations of repetition of such imperceptible smallness that our own threescore years and ten in relation to this must be regarded as an eternity. We become thus here witness to the fact that the universe's entire release of energy or process of creation is organised and controlled by an eternal principle of repetition and cycles making life or existence and ocean of manifestations of repetition or cycles. Of these cycles the ones we know best are of course those that are shorter than our own cycle, that is, our present earthly life. We are thus in a position entirely directly, with our physical senses, to follow, among other cycles, the day cycle and the year cycle, and here document that these repeat themselves in continuous succession, and that every single day and every single year is a link in a chain of repetitions. With this we have reached the fixed point on which logical grounds for the immortality of the living being can be affirmed. When all the cycles that we, with our physical earthly life, are able to outlive and experience with a one-hundred-percent perfect faculty to perceive, show themselves for us as merely a link in a chain of repetitions, why should the same not be the case for all the cycles that stretch further than the existence of our present earthly life, cycles that we cannot therefore take in directly physically? Since our present physical earthly life can likewise with one-hundred-per-cent certainty be perceived as a cycle, why should this cycle, which expresses the existence of a living being, deviate from the rule and not be a link in a chain of repetitions? The entire universe's special energy-structure or law of cycles thus confirms immortality and makes reincarnation the highest intellectual realisation for the as yet uninitiated being, who has access to cosmic enlightenment only by theoretical means.