Martinus: Livets Bog, vol. 4, sect. 1069

1069. Does there then exist anything other than precisely the above-mentioned triune "now"? Yes, there is something else. Since everything that is accessible to sensory perception or experience, as we have seen here, is the same as "time" or the "now", it becomes established as fact that there is "something" that is not "time" and cannot be the "now", namely, "something" that does not change and can therefore experience change or time. The existence of this "something" is established as a fact by the "experience of life" itself in the form of the experiencing centre existing within this experience. An experience can occur only by virtue of there being "something" that experiences. An experience cannot exist independently, but must always be something that is experienced. But something that is experienced presupposes the prior existence of "something" that could experience. And it is this experiencing "something" that is felt within every experience as the experiencing centre or midpoint that we call the "I". The "I" is thus not identical with "time" or the created or temporal phenomena related to it. Its separation from these phenomena is indicated by the terms "I" and "it". As this "I" thus exists and is, however, not identical to the "now" or "time", it can constitute only one thing, namely "eternity". And it is by virtue of its identity with "eternity" that the "I" can have no other analysis than that it constitutes "something that is". "Eternity" cannot in itself have any analysis since it has neither a beginning nor an end. And without a beginning or an end no limitation can be defined. And where no limitation can be defined, no creation can exist. And where no creation can exist, nothing that can be sensed can exist either. There is neither matter, colour nor light. "Eternity" can thus constitute only "something that is", and this analysis is the same as the analysis of the "I" that we have become familiar with through the comprehensive subject matter of "Livets Bog".