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| Living beings as "fixed points" for the measurement of movement. The final results of movement do not exist as "speed" but "purpose" | 243. Because the individual has acquired the faculty of experiencing the true "fixed points" in existence, he has actually come into possession of a yardstick by which all existing movements can be measured. At this point his experiences are not, as in the physical world, "recognition of movements on the basis of other movements", but on the contrary, "recognition of movements on the basis of true 'fixed points'". When a movement is measured or recognised on the basis of a true "fixed point", there arises just as fixed or true a value, in other words an absolute analysis of that movement. By being absolute, this analysis will differ from the relative value or the untrue analysis which comes about when that same movement is measured on the strength of another movement. Thus, if we measure a movement which is moving away from a so-called physical "fixed point" at twenty kilometres per hour against a movement in the same direction moving at sixteen kilometres per hour, we get the result which shows a movement of only four kilometres per hour. This result does not express the true analysis of that movement's speed; and similarly, no kind of results can express the true nature of a movement unless it is on the basis of a genuine "fixed point". But as there are no absolute "fixed points" in the physical world, the first result of twenty kilometres per hour was not an absolute answer either. The true value will not be recognized until we find the true "fixed point" behind the movement in question. However, as it is not to be found on the physical plane but exists beyond its border, we have to cross over that border. But as all physical movements beyond that border equal "nothing" in that they can no longer be experienced by physical senses, then that movement is no longer experienced as movement but as an "idea", which means a "purpose". However, as a "purpose" can exist only in connection with and on the basis of a living being, living beings themselves constitute the "fixed points" for the measuring of all movements, and those living beings' "purposes" constitute the deepest solution to every form of movement. All existing movements in this way have their absolute value not in speed but in purpose. |
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