Livets Bog, vol. 3
As long as the beings sense with only their subconsciousness, their perception will be "relative"
816. To sense relativities "cosmically" is in turn the same as being conscious in one's "superconsciousness". As readers will remember, we have pointed out previously that the living being has a "subconsciousness" and a "superconsciousness". The "subconsciousness" consists of the "day-consciousness" and the "night-consciousness", and is in turn supported by the being's six individual organisms or bodies of consciousness. This represents the first instance of sensory experiences. And it is in this first instance that all experiences are "relative". Here the beings sense only the reactions of the "movements" in the "outer world". They judge and perceive these reactions as absolute and thereby live under an illusion. They see only "beginnings" and "endings", "culminations" and "degenerations", and regard these as the definitive analyses of their own "I" or "self". They therefore perceive themselves as identical to mere movement, matter or material. They are looking at life but acknowledge only "death". The analyses of what they acknowledge consist only of the weights and measures of matter, or of observations of speeds, densities, time and space. They see only what is "directed", "bound by the will" or "created" but deny a "creator" or that these phenomena constitute the "creator". No wonder that, in their view, this "creator" can be recognised as only a "lifeless" phenomenon. But fortunately, this "lifeless creator" is only a "relative" vision. It therefore has nothing whatsoever to do with actual reality.