1075. As we have seen here, the "living being" is thus the same as "time" and "eternity" appearing in flesh and blood, these two latter phenomena in turn constituting in this connection the accumulation of matter in a "living organism". No form of matter can exist without being "flesh" and "blood" in an organism. But this naturally does not mean that this "flesh" and "blood" has the same red colour as flesh and blood in the terrestrial human being. The "blood" of the plant, which means its vital fluid, has, as will be remembered, the clear colour of water, just as its "flesh" appears mainly in shades of green, and the "flesh" of fish is predominantly white. In the case of the Earth, its vital fluid or "blood" is the body of water that makes up its oceans, lakes and rivers. Nor is water normally red in appearance, and yet it is a vital fluid that is just as absolutely essential to the organism of the Earth as the red blood is to the animal and human beings. Without water the planet would be a dried-up or shrivelled and lifeless mummy or mass of matter. As to the "meat" of the Earth, which means its topsoil, earth, sand and clay, its deposits of coal and chemicals, these phenomena are not bound to the red colour of terrestrial human flesh either, just as its skeleton, that is its granite cliffs and other stone and mineral formations, do not appear with the white colour of the terrestrial human skeleton either. From a cosmic point of view all matter is thus "flesh" and "blood" in organisms, and cannot possibly be anything else. Everything is therefore "living". This life in turn is the same as "experience" and the "experiencer", which in turn are the same as "time" and "eternity" respectively, which as we know, cannot possibly appear separately and therefore, in the final analysis, can appear only as a unit in the form of an eternally existing "living being". The "living being", with its appearance, is thus irrefutably an incarnation of "time" and "eternity". Where one of these two phenomena or the other does not occur, no "living being" exists. But since these phenomena are inseparable, nothing that is not expressive of a "living being" can occur or exist anywhere. Everything is life; everything is "living".
      Could the "living being" have a more elevated, lovelier or more beautiful dream or revelation than that which has here become realistic reality through life's own speech, namely the fact that the "living being" is actually "time" and "eternity", and that absolutely no other "time" or "eternity" exists; and on top of that he receives confirmation that this "time" and "eternity" cannot possibly exist without being an indivisible unit, whereby the being's identity with "eternity" is guaranteed to be "an eternal mastery of "time", "an eternal experience of space", "an eternal manifestation of the self" and thereby "an eternal revelation of God's image", which means the "nature of the Godhead"". In truth for this being "one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years is as one day".
      And is it not here easy to understand that even if we had "the wings of the morning, and dwelled in the uttermost parts of the sea", or we travelled on rays of light thousands upon thousands of light years out into the eternal space to distant cities of suns, worlds of stars, planets and celestial regions with other mankinds, animals, plants and minerals, then there too we would find ourselves enveloped in the radiant being of the Godhead and see that this sphere of infinity lives, moves and has its being within us. The space covered is our "past". The space drifting past us is our "present", and the space coming towards us is our "future". The universe is our "consciousness". We are time and eternity, the Godhead and life revealed in flesh and blood. This revelation is the "living being".