764. So what is this eternal life? Well, we already know from "Livets Bog" that it can be expressed as the combined product or result of the living being's superconsciousness, which again is identical to its "X1" and "X2". "Life" itself is in reality the same as "X3". And since life is a product of these two "X's", it is actually a "created thing". But since a "created thing" cannot come into existence from "nothing", but has come into existence from "something", it will be the same as "something" that has come into existence from another "something". This other "something" has thus been transformed. Creation could therefore, as we have said before, exist only as identical to transformation. Every "created thing" will thereby be a "transformed thing". Since life, as already mentioned, constitutes a "created thing", it will also be the same as a "transformed thing". But this is indeed also only what the facts prove. We do not have the same life as adults that we had as children. Being a "criminal" does not constitute the same form of life as being a "saint". But just as none of these forms of life are eternal or unchangeable (the child becomes an adult and the adult becomes an old person, the "criminal" has not always been a "criminal" nor has the "saint" always been a "saint"), likewise none of the forms of the life that we see, or will ever be able to see, are eternal. They constitute merely the results of transformations of things from one state to another. And what we see of life today will constantly be subject to transformation and be quite different tomorrow, in fact already today, before a fraction of a second has elapsed. No life can stand still. But no transformation of life can take place without being creation. Creation and transformation of life are therefore identical. Seen in this light, life itself constitutes, as previously mentioned, something that is transformed from one state to another. All current life is therefore identical to something previous that has been transformed. But as this something previous is in turn something previous that has been transformed, and so on, just as future life will inevitably also be identical to transformed present life, this makes it visible that life is an eternally existing "something" that changes form. And it is this changing form that we perceive as the experience of life.
      As everything that exists or appears as energy, vibration or movement can exist only as identical to this process of transformation, everything we see or can witness, whatever it may be, is identical to current life in the process of being transformed. This is just as incontestably the case whether we turn our eyes to the microcosmos and to the macrocosmos or direct them inwards to our own life, or the mesocosmos. Everything is life in the process of being transformed and is thereby an expression of the existence of an eternal "something" behind it.