314. Thus, in its true nature, the I cannot be classified as any kind of "person", "animal" or "plant". Indeed, it cannot even be said to constitute a "living being", and so in its true nature it is also excluded from being some kind of "deity". All forms of living beings, deities as well as humans, animals and plants etc. are something entirely different from the I.
      Then what are "living beings'? "Living beings" are neither more nor less than just continually changing states brought about by the I's association with matter or substance. In this way these living beings are as ripples on the surface of matter or substance, like waves on the surface of a lake, but only with the difference that while ripples on the lake's surface are created by the invisible wind, ripples in material or matter are created by the invisible I. All forms and objects are thus lifeless in themselves and owe their manifestation and being solely to the invisible "Something" existing behind them, which, through these forms and things, indirectly becomes revealed as all the I's.
      So the I, or this invisible "Something" behind every organism, underlying all forms or objects, is thus the deepest cause of everything that can be sensed, experienced or manifested. Without this "Something", without an I, all would be lifeless, all stillness; all would, in fact, be nothing. Matter without an I is, then, just nothing, just as the I in the same way, is actually nothing without matter. It is through the "ripples" in matter or substance, that is to say through movements and creative processes in this matter, that we are able to substantiate the existence of the I. But without these movements or creative processes we would never have come to experience matter in any way at all. Also, without the I, matter would remain wholly unmanifested. Just as the waves on the surface of the lake could not come about without the wind, neither could movements in matter come about without the I. Thus, we are now confronted by two inseparable realities: the I and matter. We have seen that the one reality is nothing whatsoever without being in contact with the other and vice versa. They do not exist separately, but are eternally in a mutual manifestation; indeed, so inseparable are they that together, in fact, they form but one reality. This reality consists then – as shown above – of two mutually dependant principles. But as the entity formed by these two principles releases energy or movement, and this movement, again, shows itself to be logically guided, that is to say that it expresses itself in planned creation, then the co-operation of the said two principles reveals a third principle, namely "consciousness", that is to say an ability to create and experience. The first two principles are just as inextricably bound to this last principle as they are mutually and inextricably bound to each other. Through my analyses this can be seen with certainty by that reality which gradually emerges as a fact, that everything in the structure of the Universe reveals intelligence and logic, that is, it manifests in order to fulfil a useful purpose through which the divine words "Everything is very good" consequently become an absolute reality.
      The I is bound to two other principles with which it forms an inseparable entity. And it is this entity we recognize in life as constituting a "living being". These three principles – the I, the consciousness (the ability to create and experience) and matter or substance, which we already know under the corresponding terms: "X1", "X2" and "X3", thus constitute exactly the three requisite conditions for the "Something" to manifest itself as a "living being".