The Eternal World Picture, vol. 1
8.2  The analysis of the universe is identical with the analysis of the living being
We thus have here before us the universe. What can we say about this gigantic ocean of movement, logical transformation or creation? As it constitutes everything that exists, it thus simultaneously constitutes all the big things and all the small things, all the white and all the black, all the light and all the dark, everything intellectual and everything unintellectual, all the so-called "evil" as well as all the so-called "good". In short, it constitutes all things at the same time. Since it thus constitutes one thing just as well as another, it cannot in itself have any analysis besides that it constitutes "Something that is". Consequently the universe is nameless in its most supreme analysis. We have therefore called this analysis "X1". This nameless "Something" has a faculty to create, which becomes a fact in the form of all the unfoldment of Nature, in the microcosmos and the macrocosmos as well as in the "mesocosmos", the latter last cosmos being the one that constitutes plants, animals and human beings. This all-embracing and thereby infinite faculty to create cannot have any analysis either. Whatever we may say about it can be only an expression for something that it has produced. This "Something" cannot therefore be an expression for its own eternal nature. Since it cannot have been created but is eternal, then it is also in itself beyond time and space. It can be expressed absolutely only as "Something that is". We have therefore called this all-embracing faculty to create of the universe "X2". This faculty to create is invariably unveiled by the results of that ocean of created things or phenomena that constitutes the visible universe, which it has created. This visible universe constitutes an eternal, infinite ocean of changing phenomena. Since this ocean of changing phenomena is eternal and infinite, it cannot either in itself have any analysis. Any temporal and spatial analysis can concern only an object that constitutes a part or detail of it, a single crest of a wave in this all-embracing ocean of life. It cannot thus constitute an analysis of the entirety. The only thing that we can therefore say about life's gigantic, eternal and infinite expression of life is that it is "Something that is". We have called this nameless "Something" "X3". By directing our attention towards the universe itself we have seen that it constitutes exactly the same three analyses that we pointed out in the explanation of Symbol no. 6, the same three "X's", the same three realities, which constitute the three conditions that are demanded in order that a "Something" can appear as a "living being". Just as "X1" in Symbol no. 6 constitutes the I, "X2" its faculty to create, which means its faculty to experience and manifest, and "X3" its organism, so do we see here that the same holds true for the analyses of the universe. "X1" of the universe is also a directing "I", and its "X2" is a faculty to create and experience. How else could our macrocosmos, our microcosmos and our mesocosmos, with their logical processes, which in turn constitute the unshakable principle of life on which the whole existence of the universe and life is based, exist?
Symbol by Martinus