670. The solution to the mystery of life is not a reality that can be found in a certain place. It does not constitute a locality in space, time or eternity. We can therefore never reach it by travelling thousands and thousands of miles on foot or by train, steamship or plane. Indeed, this will not bring us one single inch closer to it, even though we were, by occult means, to leave the physical body and with a spiritual body shoot through endless space for light year after light year. The answer to the great question "What is truth?" will remain a mystery in our consciousness. The answer to this question is not an answer in terms of weights or measures. It is not a question of distance, space and time. The universe is actually, at one and the same time, a manifestation of both infinity and limitation. We will therefore never ever be able to witness a limitation that does not in itself contain infinity, just as we will never ever be able to witness an infinity that is not a camouflaged limitation. Such a camouflage of infinity and limitation is what we call manifestation. So the solution to the question "What is truth?" cannot be covered by measuring space, volume, distance or time, and can therefore never ever be found on the basis of mere material research, since all the outcomes of such research can be answers only in terms of weights and measures. Such answers offer an idea of only limitations and therefore do not deal with what is "outside". This something "outside" remains a mystery. The fact that a being for instance weighs 75 kilos, is 180 centimetres tall, is 30 years old, has fair hair and blue eyes and so forth, in fact irrespective of however many such items of information one may have, offers no explanation whatsoever concerning the being's true or absolute identity. These results are expressions of particular created phenomena and are therefore merely the expressions of certain limitations, and as such constitute answers only in terms of weights or measures of a kind. But since they are expressions of limitations, they can in reality be expressed in numbers. All information or answers that can be expressed in numbers can never in any situation whatsoever provide the final or absolute analysis of something. They will merely be able to express the nature of an effect. But an effect cannot exist other than on the strength of a previously existing cause. But if this cause is also expressed as a numerical answer it will reveal merely that one here too has come to only a degree of effects and will therefore be just as far from the absolute cause. This will still constitute something "outside", and will thereby be an unsolved mystery.