Martinus: Livets Bog, vol. 3, sect. 922

922. Since all "matter" or "substance" is therefore living beings, and that which appears in substance as characteristic states of vibration or manifestations of energy are vital functions, involution and evolution or spiral cycles for these tiny individuals, in the same way that our own vital functions and manifestations of will are spiral cycles to us, it is a foregone conclusion that we cannot retain for all eternity the matter or substances that our organisms are built up of. As the microbeings' spiral cycles proceed much faster than our own cycle, it will mean that even the finest of contacts between the I's creation of its organism and the substance or matter out of which it is maintained cannot go on being manifested without interruption. As the organism as a whole is built up of materials that represent living beings from extremely different spiral cycles, one will be able to understand that the full contact between these various living beings or life-forms in an organism can last for only a very limited period. This period consists of the time taken by each of the principle life-forms in the organism to go through a section of their spiral which approximates to the section of the spiral that the organism's originator represents in its spiral. The principle life-forms in the organism consist of its main organs, such as the heart, brain, liver, lungs etc. As these are in principle life-forms, that is to say living beings, they too are subject to spiral cycles. But as they are of "younger" spiral cycles than the one represented by the originator of the organism, the phenomenon of "time" will be correspondingly different to these beings than it is to the originator of the organism. A time span that for the originator of the organism lasts perhaps 70 years, will therefore for one of the vital organs be a much longer or greater manifestation of time. And for organs in the organism that belong to even younger cycles, the macrobeing's 70 years might be hundreds if not thousands of years, the length of time increasing the lower we descend in the microspirals. It is therefore a fact that beings' normal terrestrial lives are of greatly differing lengths. If we now imagine a being whose normal physical life lasts only 24 hours, that being will during that 24 hour period in principle experience its childhood, youth, maturity and old age. To have the same experience would take terrestrial human beings roughly 70 years. Such a period consists of about 25,550 days, which means that the 24-hour being experiences its terrestrial life 25,550 times more rapidly than the terrestrial human being. It is therefore clear that time for such a being is different than it is for a terrestrial human being. But in the same way time is also different for the organs in our organism than it is for us. And it goes without saying that this cannot fail to constitute visible effects in our appearance and manifestation. And it is this diversity in beings' experience of time that forms the basis of the principle of reincarnation as well as our experience of the stages in life: childhood, youth, maturity and old age. But just as no being, without these differing forms of experience of time, could appear as a child or an adult, as old or young, so too would "birth" and "death" be totally impossible, thereby ruling out the possibility of any form of manifestation.