954. In order to understand this, one must first become clear about the purpose of the play called "fate". What is "fate" and how is this experienced from the "auditorium" of life's stage, which is the same as the "day-consciousness"? With respect to the "play of life", "fate" in reality consists of nothing other than a revelation to the "member of the audience" of all degrees of "unpleasantness" and all degrees of "pleasantness", or in other words, the creation or presentation to the son of God of a "view" or experience of "hell" and of "heaven".
      So what is the purpose of this presentation? Well, without it no experience of life could take place. Any experience at all or any detail in an experience can be perceived or sensed only on the basis of its identity as a weaker or stronger effect or manifestation of energy in relation to the effect or manifestation of energy of its surroundings. And no such experience or detail in an experience could possess such an identity if it were not for the fact that the experience of life or "fate" is a creation of the stronger or weaker appearance of all these things in relation to each other, or in other words, if the main principle of "fate" was not the "creation of contrasts". The "play of fate" would therefore present itself as a gradual increase towards the culmination of "hell", where the individual from the "auditorium" of his stage of life or day-consciousness would gain access to the most realistic view of how life would be if its unfolding were based on a total ignorance of the laws of life and were therefore of necessity a culmination of their infringement. But this culmination would therefore be a culmination of the breakdown of life-experience, that is to say chaos, since if the laws and conditions that form the basis of the perfection of life-experience are not fulfilled, it cannot possibly exist. A thing cannot exist without fulfilling the conditions that are needed for its existence. If these are not fulfilled, the thing will break down or be destroyed. With respect to the breakdown of life-experience and the resultant release of disharmony and suffering, these constitute what we call "hell".