Livets Bog, vol. 3
How a statement, a sentence or anything at all that can be expressed in language is only an expression of a change of movement and therefore cannot possibly affect the "fixed point" that experiences or registers the movement
993. By observing the world redeemer's cosmic words and sentences and the way in which these have been received and interpreted by terrestrial mankind, we obtain a clear picture of how erroneous and imperfect conceptions or conclusions can be, when they are not based on the true "fixed point", but merely constitute the relationship of "created" things to other "created" things. Jesus' words or statements are analyses based on the previously mentioned infinite and thereby eternal "something that is". As this is eternally unchangeable and therefore constitutes an absolute "fixed point", these words or pronouncements are equally fixed or motionless, which means firm and unchangeable. When Jesus says, "they that take the sword shall perish with the sword", this statement is an analysis that rests on this same "fixed point". The words constitute an analysis of the relationship of "movement" to the "fixed point". In the sentences the "fixed point" is expressed by the words "they" and "that", while the "movement" is expressed by the words "take", "sword" and "perish". These last three words therefore all express "that which happens", in other words, what changes and is therefore, as we have said, the same as "movement", whereas the words "they" and "that" express "that which experiences that which happens" and must therefore constitute the "fixed point", without which the experience of "that which happens" or "movement" could not possibly be registered. Concerning the term "sword", the reader must remember that it has been "created" and has consequently had a "beginning". But as everything that has had a "beginning" must also be heading towards a "conclusion" and thus be subject to change, it is identical to "movement". The "sword" is therefore just as much "movement" as "take" or "perish". We therefore have before us, in the world redeemer's statement, three forms of "movement" and one "fixed point". The first "movement", the "sword", we will call "movement 1". The second "movement", expressed by the word "take", and which in this case means "kill", we will call "movement 2", while the third "movement", expressed by the word "perish", we will call "movement 3". In its cosmic or innermost analysis, the world redeemer's statement will then be nothing other than an expression of the following: when "movement 1" comes into contact with "movement 2", "movement 3" arises. This is the absolute content of the world redeemer's words. They have no other content and it would be impossible for them to have any other content. We can see that the "fixed point" remains totally unaffected and cannot possibly be affected by anything at all. "Movement" will go on being "movement", just as the "fixed point" will go on being the "fixed point". The only reason the "fixed point" is mentioned at all is because it is in this that the whole experience or registering of "movement" exists. But it can never in any way be affected by or be identical to the "movement" itself. However, its presence is an absolute requirement for every registering of these three kinds of movement, which in turn really means – the experience of life.