Martinus: Livets Bog, vol. 4, sect. 1079

1079. The "range of sensory perception" consists thus of a "central area", which is sensed immediately around the I. This "area" consists of the "present". In relation to this "central area", the "future" will constitute something "in front", and the "past" something "behind". Here we see how "time" merges with "space", and becomes one with an "indication of place". But in so doing we have also witnessed the primordial notion of the "principle of perspective". We have seen the transition from the "infinite" to the "finite", from the "eternal" to the "temporal". This transition rests solely on this eternal principle. Without this transition the range of sensory perception could not possibly exist. In its primordial analysis a range of sensory perception is thereby the connection of the I, and thereby of "eternity", with the "now" as well as the fusion and oneness of "eternity" with "time" and "space" that is manifested through this connection. This fusion of the I – and therefore of "eternity" and "infinite" – with "time" and "space" thereby constitutes that which is "limited", and is the primordial analysis of all "movement". This is in turn the same as the "changes" of the "now", which in their turn, in the form of the creation of the "past", "future" and "present", are the same as "sensory perception" or the "experience of life". "Movement" – regardless of how it occurs, whether it be the rotations of the propeller on an aircraft or the flapping of the wings of a bird, whether it be the rushing of a projectile towards its goal, the journey of light thousands of light years through space or the shining of the moon on a calm forest lake – is the fusion of "eternity" with time, the I making itself one with "space" or matter, the transformation of "death" into "life".