Martinus: Livets Bog, vol. 2, sect. 602

602. As we have seen from the above, a living being's physical organism represents two sets of "radiating" material, namely, one belonging to micro-beings and one to macro-beings. This is why "organic" or "animal" matter does not immediately turn into mineral material at the time of so-called "death" but the "corpse" continues for a while to consist of "animal" matter. "Death" is due simply to the fact that a macro-being breaks off its connection with the "radiating" matter of the micro-beings by liberating his own "radiating" matter from theirs. But in doing so it actually loses contact with the micro-beings' "day-conscious experiences", loses their support and can no longer orientate itself in, or control, its physical organism which constitutes, of course, the physical living-space of those micro-individuals. The "death" which now sets in, naturally only applies to the physical organism of the being in question and not the being itself, who is certainly still able to "juggle" with its "radiating" matter, just as this "death" obviously does not apply either to the micro-beings. "Death" can only apply to their physical "universe". The tiny beings still have intact their ability to "juggle" with their own "radiating" matter. Besides, as they are microscopic in size compared with the macro-being then their experience of time will also be microscopic in relation to that of the macro-being in question; in other words, just as their organisms may be millions of times smaller than that of the macro-being, so will the length of life of their organisms be millions of times shorter than that of the macro-being. This means, therefore, that these tiny beings can experience corresponding millions of re-births in the space of time a macro-individual experiences only one re-birth. Consequently, it is understandable that the time it takes for a macro-being to extricate his "radiating" matter from his organism through the process of "death", stretches, so to say, over "centuries" of time for the micro-individuals in the same organism, even though it takes only minutes for the macro-being. At the same time, further "centuries" – even millennia – will pass in the time-scale of those micro-beings before the macro-organism disintegrates in the normal way. During these "centuries" or "millennia" the tiny beings can not only manage to outlive their existing physical organism and have a normal physical lifetime during that process of "death", but can even be re-born and live through still more lives before the dying macro-organism in question, or their "universe", has perished or is no longer able to provide living-space for the tiny beings. Consequently, thanks to their microscopic time-scale, they can still continue their re-incarnations during these "centuries", regardless of the "death" or dissolution of the macro-organism.
Gradually, as that organism's internal parts disintegrate, there will naturally be an end to the conditions necessary for the micro-individuals concerned to have a suitable physical existence within it. They will no longer be attracted to that organism or "universe", but connect their "radiating" matter to the "radiating" matter of another macro-I and begin to be born in another macro-organism and will begin to experience a new "universe" or a new large "dwelling in the house of the Father".
But as long as the tiny beings can still incarnate in the "dying" macro-organism and can experience "day-consciousness" there, "animal" matter will continue to appear in it, even though that macro-being's consciousness is not fully present therein. It should, however, be noted here that the micro-beings do obtain some support from the macro-being. For although consciousness has certainly been withdrawn from the organism, it is still connected to it by its "habitual consciousness" which indeed, is also "radiating" matter. Through this matter a beneficial connection to the macro-I in question will still be able to exist. But as everything after "death" is based on dissolving this "habitual consciousness", then the organism cannot be preserved, but finally must irrevocably meet its dissolution. And correspondingly as this dissolution advances, at the same time the conditions diminish for giving living-space to beings with physical "day-consciousness". Therefore more and more primitive beings will incarnate therein, that is to say, beings with less and less "day-consciousness". Hence there will be less and less physical "radiating matter" in that organism i.e. the corpse. And eventually the conditions will make it impossible for beings to incarnate with "physical day-consciousness". And that being so, the organism is now denuded of all "radiating" matter and has become a mineral zone comprising a stone-like world. But such a world has to succumb to the divine creative power. So now that previously shining living universe is no more. But the divine laws of love have guided its life forward to another course, into other spheres and other zones where it shall continue to shine and scintillate with divinely radiant light through all eternity.