32.11  Star section no. 8
Having arrived at the causeless cause in our analyses, we have arrived at the fundamental solution to the mystery of life. We have arrived at the very source of the entire ocean of movement in the universe, the source that lets this universe manifest itself as logical and planned creation, the source that lets it reveal itself as manifestation and experience of life. We have arrived at the actual "living something" behind all manifestation or creation and experience of life. We have arrived at "something" that differs from everything else in the universe in that it is not created but has an eternally unchangeable existence. It is in itself not movement; on the contrary, as mentioned above, it is the source of the movement. Since it is the source of all creation it cannot be analysed. However we think it ought to be analysed, this analysis can be something it has created, and not of the "something" itself. If we say about this "something" that it is loving, this analysis will be expressive merely of something it does, something it creates, something it produces. But an analysis of something produced or created is not an analysis of the producer or creator. The real and absolutely only existing creator, that is the I in the living being, can thus have no other analysis than that it constitutes "something that is". Apart from the existence of the I, nothing other than created phenomena, created exclusively by I's, exist in the universe. These phenomena cannot therefore constitute any analysis whatsoever of their originators, their I's or creators. The I of each living being must rightfully remain nameless and totally without any analysis other than that it constitutes "something that is". But we see that to this I, which we can express as a principle, two other principles are attached. These three principles are so closely bound together that they cannot be separated. They thereby form an inseparable unit. We know this unit as "the living being". This unit thus consists of an I, a creative faculty and that which is created. Since these three principles are inseparable, it becomes apparent that this living being is an eternal, immortal reality. If the I did not exist, no living being could possibly exist. The same would be the case if the creative faculty, that is the consciousness or the mental aspect of the being, did not exist. But the living being would also be an impossibility if the part of the being that comes within created organisms or bodies did not exist. So the living being constitutes a triune principle or a unit with three analyses: the I, the creative faculty and that which is created. Having no analysis other than that it constitutes "something that is", we have termed the I "X1". Since this I has had its creative faculty for all eternity, it is also an eternal reality and cannot either have any analysis other than that it constitutes "something that is". Since the organism principle of the being is also eternal and has likewise solely the analysis that it constitutes "something that is", we have termed this "X3". Here it must be pointed out that the organism principle of the being is not changed by the death or discontinuance of its physical organism because, as we will see later, it is a vital necessity for the being that this physical organism can be replaced as its physical development proceeds. The physical body is specially constructed for this replacement.