The Eternal World Picture, vol. 1
11.5  How would we be able to exist without being microbeings in a macrobeing and without at the same time being macrobeing for microbeings?
Without this division of the nameless "Something" into the "one" and the "many", the reality of a "living being" would be a complete impossibility, as creation and thereby the experience of life can exist only as a reaction between the manifestation of two directing I's. We have already seen in Symbol no. 7 how the existence of the living being is determined by it constituting a "microbeing" in a "macrobeing". How could we be able to create and experience if something "living" did not exist around us? All that we call necessities of life, such as food, clothing and all other indispensible or absolutely essential phenomena, all matter or substance in which we create and experience – from where would these realities or phenomena come and how would these be adapted to our senses and creative faculties, if they did not exist as the results of the inner organic functions of a macrobeing's I? Why should all the functions and creative processes that take place around us under the concept of "Nature" not be organic functions of an I just as well as the functions within our own organism invariably are the organic functions of our I? Should not the gigantic creative structures or creative centres that we call planets, suns and galaxies have such an all-outshining creative capacity that the result is the ingenious perfection of all living beings' organisms? Does one believe that each of these creative structures or organisms is without an "I", which in turn actually means that they are "headless"? But is a "headless" organism not the same as a "corpse"? How can a corpse carry out ingenious logical creation? Does one believe that the macrobeing's organism in which we live is headless? Does one believe that the universe with all its gigantic divine creative processes, its all-outshining wonders, beautiful worlds and planes of existence for all forms of living beings, ruled and guided by an eternal infinite wisdom, omnipotence and universal love, is a headless organism? To live with this perception is to live in death instead of in life. But life does not fail the person who has lost his way. It will invariably make him realise that the gigantic creative process around him, which we call "Nature", is the inner organic function of a living being, and that he thus lives in a macrobeing's organism. Here he will experience that the reaction of his own perception and his way of being towards the macrobeing's functions is the same as his fate. Is not our daily life, our experience and manifestation, and the resulting mode of existence, a reaction to the macrobeing's, that is Nature's influence on our senses, on our way of experiencing and creating. How could conditions for the living being's life exist except in a macro-organism, in which the vital necessities for these conditions exist?
Symbol by Martinus
Symbol no. 11
The Eternal World Picture
The Living Being 2
The Eternal Godhead and the Eternal Sons of God