Why the I can constitute nothing but "something that is"
1440. It is thus through "death" that "life" can be experienced. If "life" continues infinitely and is eternally unceasing, it thus constitutes in itself an eternally blank page. In its highest analysis "life" or "that which is living" constitutes the "I" or "X1" in the living being. It is in itself simply "something that is". It can have no other analysis than this, because any analysis that we may find applicable to this "something that is" can be but a phenomenon that this "something" has created. And if this "something" has created it, this "something" must have existed before this creation took place. So this produced creation absolutely cannot be its true analysis. On the contrary its true analysis can be only the state that this "something" or "I" had before this creation took place or that it has outside each of its creations. But since its true analysis thus lies outside any production or creation, that is, outside any temporal phenomenon or anything that has a beginning and an end, it is precisely this circumstance that determines that it can have only one analysis, namely, that it constitutes simply "something that is".
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