381. In order to understand how life actually feels based on an experience of this kind, one has to eliminate all thought of solid physical matter, all that which is the supporting basis for existence and appearance here in the animal kingdom. When one eliminates this matter naturally at first, one will imagine that everything is "falling away". Here in the physical world everything "falls" until it meets some kind of solid base. All movement is exclusively identical with such a fall. But this, as mentioned above, is caused by the permanence of the Earth's desire for life. This desire exists as an automatic function which is certainly an absolute necessity for the principle of reincarnation in its culmination, that is, for the enclosure of beings in permanent bodies of solid physical matter. In the "divine world" however, where permanent bodies do not exist, because the principle of reincarnation is only latent, that is they do not manifest in dense or permanently "bound' matter, there are no solid globes either – indeed, there are no solid things of any kind. Here we are completely away from the beginning of any creation. We are at the most central core of the very Creator. We are beyond all organisms or bodies; they just do not exist here. The I is in its own complete world equipped only with its "super-consciousness". But in fact this is an entirely automatic function, guided and directed by the power of the inherent "fate-element" in that same "super-consciousness" with its myriads of "talent-kernels". "Super-consciousness" without "subconsciousness", and thus without "day-consciousness" and "night-consciousness", would not provide the individual with the ability to experience life in any way. Consequently the I will invariably be connected to its "subconsciousness" so there will never be a moment when it is without "day-consciousness" and "night-consciousness", or in other words there can never be a moment when it is not experiencing life. This experience is exclusively concerned with creating, which is, of course, synonymous with the combination of matter. To combine matter is the same as to produce movement. And movement, again, is the same as re-arranging matter. The re-arranging of matter can be brought about only on the basis of energy or power. In its highest analysis power is a characteristic of consciousness. To repeat, as such characteristics can only be connected with an I, then the latter reveals itself as the "fixed point" for all matter, all movement, all experience and for all creation.
      That beings do not have such experiences in the physical world is due to the fact that all experiencing happens only indirectly there. This indirect sensing is seated in organs of physical matter. As these same beings cannot yet sense cosmically, they perceive the indirect sensing to be direct, for they consider themselves identical with that combination of matter that constitutes their physical body. And as far as their physical bodies are concerned, they have to have a foundation of solid matter for support. Thus, physical matter must rest upon other physical matter. And as the beings in question can sense only in the physical world, they know nothing of their own divine sublimity, or of the fact that it is their "super-consciousness", or I, that supports matter and not matter that supports the I.