Martinus: Livets Bog, vol. 4, sect. 1408

1408. So these millions of "chance occurrences" would have had to have taken place in advance, before the emergence of the terrestrial human being could have become a reality. Every single one of these millions of "chance occurrences" would have had to be an exact coincidence of precisely the forms of energy and substance that could harmonise or usefully co-operate with one another, like the harmony and cooperation that together make up the organic functioning of a living being. Perhaps it might be easier to understand how difficult it would be to win the prize that the living being is in this great lottery of life, if we picture the panorama of "chance" using another form of imagery. Let us use a large lottery bag to express the universe's millions of varieties of substance and energy, a bag in which every single number is one of the universe's forms of energy or substance. Let us now presume that these numbers constitute the row of numbers from one to several millions. In order to get some of these substances to make the connection that is required so that they can constitute a living being, a "chance occurrence" is thus demanded, a "chance" ripple in the universe's ocean of energy or substance. If, in order to have a starting point, we now express the forms of energy or substance that are needed in order to form a living being by the numbers 27, 317, 352, 1002, 3649 and 7777 and several other specific numbers, the "chance occurrence" determining the emergence of the living being consists of one making one single dip into the lottery bag and getting hold of exactly these numbers and no others, for if one got hold of others, the living being would be an impossibility. If we are so lucky with this dip that we get hold of precisely these numbers, then we have before us the "chance occurrence" that enables Nature to produce a living being. Nature would have to be very lucky with its ripple or dip into the millions of numbers to pick out precisely these numbers, otherwise no living being would emerge from this dip. Then Nature's dip would draw only a blank.
But if we now suppose that Nature has been so lucky with its dip as to have got hold of precisely the numbers needed, then it has indeed a living being, but this living being is merely a microbeing. It needs to use millions of such microbeings in order to bring about a living being from the mesocosmos, for example, a terrestrial human being. It must thus try to dip into the bag again and again millions of times, and be so favoured by "chance" that it gets precisely the numbers needed every single time, until it has the number of millions of beings that are needed for the mesocosmic being to emerge. In truth, truly supernatural "luck" is needed to enable the kind of mass fulfilment of "chance" to be revealed as that which determines that a living being can come into existence. How often does one suppose that the terrestrial human being would have to dip into the bag in order to be lucky enough to get precisely these numbers? Would it not experience an ocean of blanks? Would not the "chance occurrence" be an exceptionally rare event, an event that would be needed for the dip into the bag to really draw a prize?
For every terrestrial human being or living being that Nature has produced, it has thus had to dip into the lottery bag and win the big prize several millions of times in uninterrupted succession, despite the number of prizes being only one out of millions. With every dip it would have had to win precisely the six previously stated numbers. It would in truth be a remarkable "piece of luck". Such a "piece of luck", such an uninterrupted repetition of the same "chance occurrence" has never yet been observed in the life of any living being. What terrestrial human being can dip into a lottery bag in which the percentage of blanks runs into six figures and "by chance" pick out precisely the same six previously mentioned numbers millions of times in a row or in uninterrupted succession? Is not "chance" here so fundamental that one cannot differentiate between it and that which is planned? And is this not even more real when one sees with what abundance Nature reveals the emergence of the living beings both in microcosmos and mesocosmos? But when "chance" is indistinguishable from "that which is planned", which thus means that it fulfils all the laws or conditions that render a thing logical or purposeful, any basis for identifying it with "chance" is ruled out. To go on claiming that the thing is a matter of "chance" would thus be tantamount to claiming something that is untrue or unreal. It is thus obvious that claiming that the living being's emergence or appearance is due to "chance" alone is the cultivation of an "untruth".