Martinus: Livets Bog, vol. 4, sect. 1104

1104. We already know that "thought" in the periphery of the range of sensory perception begins as the reaction arising from the contact of the senses with the outermost details of the sensory periphery and is here a mere "inkling". But in order that this reaction can take place, we ourselves must thus constitute something that could be the "cause" of this reaction. This "cause" is our sensory faculties, which in turn constitute the entire area that makes up our consciousness. These sensory faculties are therefore the "effects" that the experiences gained in previous lives have left behind and connected to our I in the form of "talent kernels" and the resulting physical and mental organs. The functioning of these talent kernels through these organs becomes the "cause" of new "effects". These become the "causes" of new "talent kernels" and new organs, which in turn become the "causes" of new effects and so on, whereby the I becomes the centre of this eternal release of "cause and effect". This area around the I in which this release takes place constitutes the I's consciousness or "range of sensory perception".