699. Having arrived at the point in our meditation or investigation where we have confirmed the living being's eternal identity as a "triune principle", we cannot avoid noticing that the universe has exactly the same analysis. Our entire experience of life is identical to one single great chain of experiences of "created realities" that in the form of the universe constitutes an eternal result of creation, that is to say, an "eternal something that is", which is in turn the analysis "X3". This eternal result of creation makes a correspondingly eternal creative ability a fact, and this brings us to the analysis: "X2". But a creative ability is a subordinate characteristic and can exist only in connection with an originator that thinks and exercises will. The eternal creative power of the universe therefore demands the existence or presence of an equally eternal originator, in order to be able to constitute the reality that this ability today represents as a fact. And this brings us to the analysis "X1". The universe therefore constitutes precisely the same analysis, the same triune principle, as the living being. And its identity as constituting such a being is thereby incontestably confirmed. Since this living being can be nothing other than the one and only great being that we describe using the term the "Godhead", all living beings therefore appear in "God's image after his likeness". This is the ninth basic answer to the mystery. This answer is symbolised in star field no. 9 in the form of triangles within triangles. The triangles symbolise living beings. Just as these triangles find themselves placed inside each other, we see that the beings of the universe, which are in fact the visible "image of the Godhead", also find themselves placed inside each other. Our own organism even demonstrates this phenomenon as a fact. Without the microbeings in it, our organs, our blood and our musculature, indeed our entire physical existence would be an absolute impossibility, just as it would also be totally impossible if we ourselves did not similarly find ourselves within the larger organism, whose functions we call "Nature". How could we exist, create and manifest if outside our physical organism there existed only a "nothing"? How could the living being's experience of life be manifested if its organism did not lie wrapped in this divine embrace, if it were not enveloped in the Godhead's corporeal as well as spiritual body and its vital functions?