Martinus: Livets Bog, vol. 4, sect. 1441

1441. But just as the I can experience its absolute analysis only through something that contrasts with it, namely through "something that is not absolute", which means, all temporal and spatial phenomena or illusions, so too can it experience its identity with eternity only through its opposite, which constitutes the same temporal and spatial phenomena. Since the I itself has no temporal or spatial analysis whatsoever, and can be expressed only as "something that is", it is thus intrinsically a nameless "something" that we, as the reader already knows, may call X. But through its faculty to create it can clothe itself in these "temporal" and "spatial" phenomena and become in a way "one with them", without the sage or initiate, however, loosing sight of the living being's eternal existence and infinite space. It is this circumstance that brings about the fact that no "created thing" whatsoever can be manifested or sensed unless, besides being "limited in time" and subject to a "beginning" and an "end", it also constitutes "infinite" time, and similarly, besides constituting a "limited" space directly apparent to the senses, it also constitutes "infinite" space. Thus no "created" thing can exist without revealing that it contains "eternity" and "infinity", even though it is sensed in everyday experience as also constituting a certain measurement in space or in time.
How then can a thing that is, for example, "one year old" at the same time reveal its identity with "eternity"? And how can a volume that is say "one cubic metre" constitute infinity? That eternity is thus present in every concept of time, and infinity in every concept of space is revealed by the fact, among others, that any limited phenomenon whatsoever, whether it be time or space, is in itself "infinitely" divisible. A "cubic metre", for example, consists of two half cubic metres. These two halves can in turn be divided into halves, which each in turn can be divided into two, and so on absolutely "eternally". It is true that the "halves" or the divisions ultimately become so small that they can be perceived only in the abstract, but this does not mean that they do not exist or that, with one's thinking or brain, one can come to a point theoretically where one can say that the divisions can no longer take place because they have now become so small as to equal "nothing". But "something" cannot possibly become "nothing", just as "nothing" cannot ever become "something". And however small one can imagine the divisions to be, it will still be possible to divide them theoretically or mentally into two halves. And this in turn means that the "cubic metre" that we began dividing was not actually a "cubic metre" at all, but "infinity" itself. A "cubic metre" is thus in the absolute sense a space that we can continue to divide for all eternity without ever being able to finish the process. This "cubic metre" thus proved to be a space that was totally without any absolute limitation. But a space that is without limitation is "infinity" itself. And since "infinity" can be expressed only by the concept of "something that is", this brings us to the I itself or the previously mentioned nameless "X". The "cubic metre" was thus a "limitation" that is identical with "infinity". But a "limitation" that is identical with "infinity" is the same as an "illusion".
Exactly the same is the case with time. A year can also be divided into two half-years. Two half-years can each in turn be divided into two halves, and so on continuously for all eternity. And so a "year" or any other concept of time similarly becomes a "limited" infinity of time, which thus means, "eternity" itself. Thus the year that we began with is intrinsically "eternity".