Martinus: Livets Bog, vol. 4, sect. 1409

1409. But if the emergence of living beings on the physical plane cannot be due to "chance" and therefore occurs very definitely as "something planned" or as the fulfilment of a "purpose", it is thereby established as fact that there was "life" prior to this emergence, for "something planned" can be an expression of only the "logical exercise of will", which in turn can be based only on a previously existing "desire", because an exercise of will can exist only as a "bridge" between an I and the satisfaction of a "desire". But the satisfaction of a "desire" can in turn exist only as an "experience of life". And thus it becomes an inevitable fact for the advanced researcher that there is "something" that wishes the emergence of the bodies, the organisms or the created things, and that this emergence is due exclusively to this "something" exercising its will. Since the emergence of all created things is thus an exercise of will, there is thus nothing on the physical or the spiritual plane that is accessible to sensory perception that can constitute this "something" that wishes the creation and aids it by exercising its will. But since it is nonetheless a fact that it exists, it here becomes evident to us that this "something" is in itself inaccessible to sensory perception. It can be sensed only through its productions, the exercising of its will, its plans and purposes. Since nothing that is accessible to sensory perception can exist without being or expressing logical creation and exercise of will, thereby revealing desires and purposes, we will never in any situation whatsoever be able to experience this "something", the ordering or commanding core of "life" itself, through direct sensory perception. It can be experienced only indirectly through its productions or manifestations. And thus the goal or purpose of all manifestation, all transformation of matter, all creation is solely to make this "something" a reality not merely for this "something" itself but also for its surroundings or fellow beings.