783. Here one might assert that, quite apart from the movement of this Earth, it is nevertheless a fact that within its area, or on its surface, we have perfectly good "fixed points". We have no particular difficulty in finding good underlying structures or foundations for our buildings, whether they be civilisation's skyscrapers or the Eskimo's igloos. Great bridges rest upon solid blocks secured in the bowels of the Earth. Express trains run on firmly fixed railway lines, just as large buses drive for hundreds of kilometres on just as solidly built motorways. It is true that these phenomena are possible only on the strength of so-called "solid foundations". But what are these foundations other than human beings' "furnishing" of their great "celestial chariot", the Earth? They represent no other fixedness or immobility than that which is apparently also represented by the interior of the railway compartment of a moving train, when we are not looking out of the windows. If we are looking out of the windows, we will see the speed of the train, and thereby that of the compartment or our "fixed point", as it travels across the continent. But is this not precisely how all "fixed points" are established? Is it not precisely where we see no movement that we say that the thing is standing still? And how can things appear otherwise in such a situation? If a movement cannot be established, its contrast must totally dominate the senses. And it is precisely this contrast that we call "standstill". Seen in this way, there are, in X3, no forms at all of absolutely "fixed points". All the phenomena that we in everyday life regard as such are therefore in reality absolutely not "standstill" but are to the very highest degree expressions of "movement". The fact that we nevertheless see these phenomena as "stationary", and thereby as "fixed points", is due to the fact that we do not see the form of movement or oscillations of energy that are connected to the objects. Here we are in the "compartment of an express train" but the "blinds are drawn". We cannot "see out" and therefore cannot perceive the "speed" or the "movement" of the objects. They therefore seem to stay in exactly the same relationship or position relative to us. And we therefore see them as "fixed" or "stationary". The "fixed points" that we see or sense are all, without exception, illusions. They constitute "hidden movements".