488. As all substances, all kinds of movement within and around us constitute the highest degree of mental functioning, then this must be the only desirable model to have for one's own mental functioning, one's own creative thinking. And it is also the same in life, that the existence of living beings actually consists of imitating Nature which is, of course, the same as imitating the mentality of Providence or the Godhead. We find only the ideas and principles of Nature recurring again and again in anything and everything created by living beings. What else is it but the same principle of life-cycles which makes the engines rumble along the railways of the continents? And do we not see in this engine something constructed upon the same foundation on which rests every living organism, namely the principle of combustion? Must not every kind of machine be "fed"? Must it not have "food" in the same way as a living organism? Were not the wings of a bird the model for the modern aircraft? How else could Man have reached the point of being able to move in bird-like flight away above the roof-tops and spires of cities, and over shining snow-clad mountain tops where the shadow of his sky-flight is sharply outlined far below on the misty clouds, if he had not been able to draw technical ideas from Nature's own workshop?
      But it is not only in technology that Nature enriches living beings. We see again and again how any form of knowledge can exist only as a result of a living being's experience or study of Nature itself. Astronomy, geology, anatomy, chemistry, biology, philosophy – in fact everything we call science – what else is it but a knowledge about nature? And as everything in existence can only be intrinsic to this nature, or be some detail or some part of it, then Nature itself becomes visible as an expression of superlative mentality or a consciousness that cannot be surpassed either by professors or doctors, nor by the mental capacity of any other of mankind's most outstanding scholars. It is by virtue of Nature that Providence itself is the very professor among professors, the very doctor among doctors, the super-thinker among thinkers. Terrestrial mentality or consciousness is but a weak reflection, a faint semblance of this divine display of wisdom and knowledge. The Universe is a manifestation of the love, instruction and entertainment of a living being directed or aimed towards every single thing in existence. Wheresoever one may look, with whomsoever one may speak, whether friend or foe, whether animal or human, whether substance or matter, war or peace, one is confronting – however improbable it may sound – the personal mentality of the absolute living Godhead, directly and intentionally aimed at oneself. Therefore in its basic analysis, life is expressing a "correspondence" between the living being and the Godhead.