In order to get even the slightest insight into the fate of mankind the fact that energy does not constitute everything that exists must be must be brought to the reader's knowledge; there is yet another reality, which is not the least important at that. This reality is identical with that which experiences life. Is there then something that experiences life? Yes, there is no fact whatsoever greater than this. But this "Something" cannot be identical with energy, since energy is the same as vibration, and vibration is the same as movement, and movement in turn is in its very nature a lifeless reality. It has no senses, no organs, and cannot therefore experience anything whatsoever. What does a gust of wind know about a waterfall? And what does the falling of a drop of rain know about the swinging of a pendulum? Absolutely nothing, as a movement cannot experience "Something", though "Something" can experience movement. As energy in the absolute sense is the same as substance, nothing whatsoever that appears as identical to substance can be identical to the experiencing "Something". As every single object, in order to be able to affect the senses directly, must be identical to energy, substance or matter, the above-mentioned "Something" is not to be found on any of the six planes of existence. The planes of existence consist, as we know, of energy. When we therefore nonetheless witness the fact that these planes are populated by immeasurable hosts of realities that we call "living beings", these realities will in no way whatsoever be identical to the experiencing "Something" itself. The above-mentioned realities constitute certain specific combinations of the basic energies. We call these combinations organisms or bodies. Through the analysis of these bodies we come to the conclusion that even the smallest, hair-fine details constitute tools or instruments planned and constructed to fulfil particular purposes. They thus constitute realities that have come into existence on the basis of previous thinking. Every such body has had a beginning and will have an end when it has fulfilled its mission or the purpose for which it was constructed. As these bodies, in the cosmic sense, thus constitute "created realities", they are proof of the fact that the above-mentioned living "Something" really exists. If one is not willing to accept the bodies as a proof of the existence of this "Something", one is forced to admit that these bodies must have created themselves. But, since in those fields where the terrestrial human being has his greatest insight into creation, namely within that area where he himself is able to create, one has never in any case whatsoever witnessed that a thing has created itself, it would be quite contrary to the laws of logic to assert that the above-mentioned bodies have come into existence by themselves. This is an assertion analogous to the claim that a machine, a house, a grand piano or anything else whatsoever within the area of human creation has come into existence by itself. And just as this assertion is against the fact so every declaration that aims at acknowledging bodies as having created themselves will be against the actual fact and thereby unreal or abnormal.
      It is thus a fact that the living "Something" exists. And people have also, even if in many cases unconsciously, expressed this by the term "the I". So when an individual says, "I saw", "I felt", "I spoke" and so on, this "I" is a term for the living "Something". It was thus not the eyes of the being in question that saw, it was not its mouth that spoke, it was not its body that felt, it was rather "the I" that saw by means of the eyes, that spoke by means of the mouth and that felt by means of the organism. If this living Something were not present behind the organism, there would be no difference between a living being and a "corpse". A corpse is an organism that has been cut off from the living Something that has created and used it.
      As the above-mentioned Something is thus not a created reality, it can never have had a beginning but has existed eternally. And since it is not vibration or energy, it is not subject to change and will therefore be eternally unchangeable; nor can it ever come to an end. As the same Something is identical to the I, or what in the living being experiences life, and as this Something is not created, having neither beginning nor end, then it becomes obvious that the same being's experience of life is everlasting. All living beings are thus immortal.
      As the living Something is not a created thing and does not consist of energy or substance, it is beyond every form of analysis except this: that it is the source of the energy, for it is this that experiences the energies and not vice versa. To express the above-mentioned Something by a particular descriptive term can thus occur only on the basis of an illusion. For if we say that this Something is large or small, that it is yellow or green, that it is evil or good and so on, all such terms will be terms only for a particular release of energy or created realities and cannot possibly be an expression of the living Something. This Something, the I or that which experiences life in every being, is and will thus be in all eternity a nameless reality above and beyond all phenomena and manifestations. It appears in existence connected to an organism as a living being.