Livets Bog, vol. 2
Why the "triune principle" is eternal.
538. As we have seen here, the fundamental factor in existence is the "triune principle". As this all-encompassing reality is a trinity, then each of the three "something's" appearing in this trinity should be expressed in their primary or highest analysis as a "principle". It is only by virtue of the three "principles" merging into – or appearing as – a "unit" that this trinity reveals itself as a "living being". None of these principles has ever existed separately and through all eternity none will ever be able to do so. This unit is, then, the living being's eternal analysis, and diverges from all other existing realities in life or the Universe in that these are "temporal", meaning they constitute "created" or "produced" phenomena, having this "trinity" as their source. Consequently, the living being as well as the Universe itself, in its basic analysis, can never deny its identity as the "triune principle".
      As this principle comes before "that which is created", it cannot itself have had a previous "creator" as its source. But if it has not had a previous "creator" as its source, it cannot have been "created" or "come into being", and must therefore have "existed" throughout eternity. To think that the opposite could be the case would be the same as believing that "something" can come from "nothing". This "nothing" would have been the source of every form of "something". And the further consequence of this again would be that it is the "thing created" which produces the "creator", which means that the tailor is the product of the clothing, the joiner a product of the furniture or that bread is the source of the baker and so on, all of which takes us into the shadowy realms of abnormality and mental disorder, far removed from that common sense and logic which maintains the Universe, with its host of stars, suns, milky ways, globes, planets, beings, microbes and all existences.