Martinus: Livets Bog, vol. 3, sect. 795

795. It has now become a fact for us that both this "immaterial" "something" and the "movements" exist. But since only the "movements" are accessible to sensory perception, our combined experience of life must of necessity be a sense of "something outer" that we perceive, such as our organism and its surroundings, and then of "something inner" that we cannot perceive, but whose presence we nevertheless, either wholly or partly unconsciously, emphasise under the concept of the "I" or the "self" in the living being. Our sense of life is therefore expressed as an "inner unconscious part" and an "outer conscious part". As the sense of life finds expression in this way, it is not so surprising that the human being at the culmination of its materialistic stage – the stage where it believes that the results in terms of weights and measures constitute life's absolutely only analyses or answers – thinks that anything that is otherwise claimed to exist in addition to such results is pure imagination or superstition. But through our investigation in "Livets Bog", we have now seen that such a standpoint is totally untenable in the long term, since it is, to a far greater extent, superstition or fantasy, and thereby less in accordance with reality, than the view that acknowledges the presence of a "something" in the unconscious part of the sense of life experience. That this latter acknowledgement is falsely described as "spirit", "spirits", "godheads" and the like does not alter the principle, but on the contrary proves that in using these expressions the being is seeking to emphasise his innate, instinctive sense of the presence of his own highest, imperceptible "self" in the unknown part of his own inner being. He realistically senses his own "self" as something separate from the purely outer, transient factors, such as his organism and other material things. He therefore believes in the eternal existence or immortality of his own "self", and, among other things, in forms of existence beyond this present life.