But who are "we"? Are we identical to the matter that is subject to this birth and death? No, we cannot possibly be. The facts certainly show that we are a "Something" that experiences or ascertains the transformation of this matter, or its birth and death. It is true that we have an organism that is also born and dies. But why should it not be subject to the same birth and death? It is merely a logical construction of physical matter. It constitutes merely a "created" phenomenon intended solely to be a tool through which a "Something" can experience and sense the physical world. This something cannot be the organism itself since it constitutes merely a produced or a created phenomenon intended to serve a certain purpose. But since a purpose is the same as a wish, it can have only a living something as its source. Every living being's organism is thus the fulfilment of a wish, thereby revealing that behind the organism there exists a living something that is a source of this organism and for whom this is a tool to aid its experiencing of life. We term this something behind the organism our "I". This I or self of ours sees by means of our eyes, hears by means of our ears, and experiences and manifests on the physical plane by means of all our other physical senses. Since unlike our organism this I is not created, and since it is itself the creator, it has an eternal existence. It existed before its present organism came into existence, just as it will exist when the same organism has ceased to exist on the material plane. And just as it has taken part in creating the present organism so will it again take part in creating a new future organism, and so on. This I and its consciousness or thought world lie thus beyond physical sensing and are therefore details of the empty space.
      The empty space of the universe is thus the domicile of all living beings' I's, their consciousness and thought worlds, just as in the same way it is the domicile of God's I and consciousness. In the darkness of the void in the depths of the universe, life's innermost source or origin and its consciousness thus exist. Likewise the I and consciousness of all existing living beings hide themselves in the same physically invisible world. This holds true not merely for all beings that have physical organisms, but also to an equally great extent for all beings that are liberated from this organism, those we call "the dead". They are all in the invisible world from which they will again incarnate in a new physical organism and will thereby manifest themselves again in the physical world.