Martinus: Livets Bog, vol. 3, sect. 707

707. The expression "human being" is not therefore really an expression of "something living", but of a form of manifestation or a certain kind of juggling with the energies that "something living" behind the energies brings about. The same of course applies to the expressions "animals" and "plants". As all such phenomena are "created things", they cannot, in themselves, be or constitute the "living something" that is the origin or the creator of these phenomena. When one or other of these phenomena, for example a human being, "dies", it is a "product" or a "created thing" that "dies". But since a "created thing" has never been "living", it cannot be "something living" that "dies". And since it cannot be "something living" that "dies", it can be only "something dead" that undergoes this process. But as it can be only "that which is dead" that "dies", "death" can never under any circumstances be the same as a "cessation of life". It is in itself merely a process of dissolution, and it thereby becomes clear that it comes under the category of creation, since creation cannot possibly exist without constituting the two processes, "dissolution" and "joining together". The material of creation can exist absolutely only as "liberated" energies or substances, and these cannot possibly be "liberated" except through dissolution, just as creation cannot possibly exist without being a joining together of these "liberated" energies. "Liberation" or "dissolution" is therefore an absolute prior condition of every creation, in that all energies are "bound". If they were not bound, there would be no need of force in order to create. There would be no such thing as "gravity". There would be absolutely nothing that could "fall down", in fact there would be no possibility whatsoever of experiencing any kind of energy or force. But now it is a fact that no creation whatsoever, no matter how small or microscopic it might seem, can take place other than in the form of an overcoming of energy. Energy is needed for any kind of creation or manifestation. This phenomenon confirms it to be an irrefutable fact that all energy or matter can exist only in a bound state. But this bound state would render all creation impossible were it not for the possibility of "dissolution" or "liberation", which in reality means merely a transformation of the eternal connection between these forms of matter or energy and the remaining ocean of matter. A true liberation in the absolute sense of the word does not exist, since in that case the curious thing that "something could become nothing" would be a fact. The true liberation of a kind of matter or energy from the remaining ocean of matter in the universe would require the emergence of a border zone between the liberated energy and the ocean of matter, which could consist of nothing other than an absolute "empty space". But an absolute "empty space" can be only a space that contains an absolute "nothing". But such a space does not exist. The term "nothing" covers only an "imagined" opposite to the "something" that unfailingly fills the "entire" universe and that prevents it from leaving room in any way whatsoever for some kind of absolute "empty space".
If a kind of energy or matter could be surrounded by an absolute "empty space", its connection with the remaining ocean of matter would be broken for all eternity. The creation of a new connection would be totally out of the question, since which energies could pass through an absolutely "empty space"? A projectile? A rocket? No, definitely not. Because the moment such a phenomenon passed the boundary of the "empty space" it would instantaneously become "nothing", just as the kind matter or energy it was aimed at, being surrounded by the empty space, would long since have passed over into this same "nothing". And here we would be faced with a situation to which there can be only one single parallel, namely that the entire remaining ocean of matter would have undergone the same fate. As this also bordered onto the "empty space", it would thereby have lost the contrast that makes possible its accessibility for sensory perception. Everything would therefore have become "nothing". At this point one has to remember that matter or energy can exist only by virtue of its contact with other energies. If an energy could be totally surrounded by an "empty space", such a contact could not possibly take place and consequently neither could there come about any reaction. And without this, all sensory perception or experience of life would be an impossibility, just as the "triune principle" would be an illusion. And where life now exists supreme as an "eternal something" that exists, an absolute "nothingness" would exist in a region without change.
But due to the fact that liberation of a kind of matter or energy can exist – not as a cessation – but exclusively as a transformation of its connection with the ocean of matter, such a domain of "death" cannot possibly come about. "Death" is therefore not an annihilation of life; it appears to the very highest degree as a further continuation of the universe's "eternal, sovereign something".

Symbol no. 11

The Solution to the Mystery of Life