The Road to Paradise
Chapter 9
The difference between the physical and spiritual faculties to experience life and to create
This above-mentioned belief is sheer superstition and has nothing whatsoever to do with the real facts.
The inner mental or intellectual faculty to experience life and to create can never cease.
It is not based on an instrument or organism that has to be renewed and replaced in the same primitive way as the physical organism.
While the physical faculty to experience life and to create can be renewed only by a complete replacement of the physical organism, the spiritual faculty to experience life and to manifest is renewed by a perpetual degeneration and a corresponding, simultaneous, perpetual process of renewal.
On the spiritual plane the being will thus have an uninterrupted, perpetually renewed faculty to experience life and to create.
This faculty thus constitutes a contrast to the physical faculty to experience life and to create, which stands and falls with the death of the physical organism.
This form of life experience and creation must of necessity be interrupted during the period when the being has to be on the spiritual plane between physical, terrestrial lives.
The physical view of life and creation occurs thus in interrupted epochs, while the being's spiritual experience of life and spiritual creation exist perpetually and uninterruptedly.
By virtue of this it is established as fact that the above-mentioned spiritual experience of life and spiritual creation are primary, while the physical experience of life and physical creation constitute merely a secondary state of consciousness in the living being.
The physical state of experiencing and creating thus constitutes only a part of the being's entire eternal state of experiencing life.