Martinus: Livets Bog, vol. 2, sect. 580

580. That this "thinker" or "creator" of ideas becomes aware of himself through thought and must recognize his "discovery" as being an "I" separate from "it" – that is to say from everything else in existence – can only confirm the sixth basic element of life's mystery as being an indispensable advantage. Without the existence of a consciously recognized "separation" between the "thinker" and the "thoughts" all manifestation or creation, and thereby any form of experiencing, would be an impossibility. For a life without experience is no life at all; it would be without doubt an eternal "nothing".