Martinus: Livets Bog, vol. 2, sect. 556

556. The initial releasing factor for experience or creation is thus "primordial desire". As mentioned previously, this desire is an eternal desire for life and experience. It is the fundamental connecting-link between the I and manifestations. It merges into "something No. 1" and constitutes the first thing from here that may be defined as "something No. 2" and it further reveals its power as the principle element running through all the details in "something No. 3". As mentioned, it constitutes the mother of all tendencies of consciousness and all thought-climates, and is thereby the mother of life itself.
The living being is not directly conscious of the "primordial desire", for this in itself is a permanent consequence of a being's principle automatic functions. Thus, it constitutes an effect of the previous experiences, manifestations and fate of its source. If that source, that is the I, had not had such a previous state of experience, then it would be impossible for the "primordial desire" to be released. Had it ever been just stillness, what would have set it in motion or activity? Something that is still can only be set in motion through a force or energy. But force or energy is only to be found in "something No. 2" and "something No. 3", with which it is identical. Consequently, the function of "primordial desire" is maintained from below, which means that all experiences and conditions in an individual's present daily life become the cause of the future appearance and presence of this desire in the same individual's consciousness. So the living being's present "primordial desire" is a direct consequence of his previous existence and fate. But as this previous fate cannot possibly have come about except through a pre-existing "primordial desire", and this again is an effect of a previous existence, and so on continuously, then we have here, in the analysis of the "primordial desire", an incontestable proof of the eternal existence of the living being. "Primordial desire" brings about "fate", and "fate" brings about "primordial desire': this is the eternal analysis of life. All manifestation of life thus lies in that part of the "triune principle" which constitutes "X2" and "X3". These two "X's" are the life and consciousness of "X1", and this means that they constitute an eternal characteristic feature of "X1".