Livets Bog, vol. 3
"That which experiences" and "that which is experienced" as constituting respectively the "fixed point" and "movement" and the beings' view of them
994. In its innermost analysis, the experience of life can never in any instance whatsoever consist of anything other than exactly this triad of movements: the contact of "movement 1" with "movement 2", from which there arises "movement 3". This triad of movements is absolutely the only thing that is accessible to sensory perception. And this accessibility would be completely impossible were it not for the existence of the infinite, eternal "something that is". As we can see, this "something that is" is totally unaffected by "movement" or sensory perception. If this were not the case, it would in itself have to be "movement" and would not constitute a "fixed point", and every form of sensory perception would be totally impossible, or one would even have to go so far as to accept that "movement" can experience "movement". If there did not exist anything other than "movement", every railway engine or any other kind of engine would be able to experience its own starting, running and stopping. Is not the acceptance of such reasoning in glaring contrast to every form of intellectuality?
      As it is a fact that "movement" is experienced, there must be "something" that actually "experiences". And as a result, it becomes an equally unshakable fact that the experience reveals two things, namely, "that which experiences" and "that which is experienced". "That which experiences" is the "fixed point". And "that which is experienced" is "movement". But as we have just seen, the cosmic analysis of an experience can constitute only the contact of "movement 1" with "movement 2", from which there arises "movement 3". Whether we see these "movements" as constructive or destructive, as murder, killing, wounding, happiness or unhappiness or any other phenomenon does not alter the cosmic analysis of the "movement" and thereby the action. It constitutes and will continue to constitute nothing other than the previously mentioned triad of movements: the contact of "movement 1" with "movement 2", from which there arises "movement 3". Whatever happens takes place exclusively in the "movement" – not in the "fixed point". The truly "living something" in the being is eternally unchangeable. It is true that in their ordinary, everyday use of language, one sees things differently and thinks that it is the "living something" itself that is affected by the event, but it is just such a view, which deviates from reality, that makes clear to us the beings' still purely materialistic sensory perception. They are completely unable to see the cosmic content of the words or sentences, having as a result a hundred per cent materialistic view of reality or an equally untrue picture of this reality.