Martinus: Livets Bog, vol. 5, sect. 1689

1689. As we already know from previous analyses, the law of the cycle is such that the basic energies, and thereby the various forms of the experience of life, move rhythmically from a culminating state to a latent state, and from this latent state back to a culminating manifestation, and so on continuously. This latent state is the experience of life at its minimum, while the culmination is the experience of life at its maximum. There is thus an eternally existing principle that determines the structure of the experience of life and the fact that life cannot go beyond a particular, specific state of manifestation, just as it cannot either be forced to a complete halt. If these two conditions were not present, life could be neither hunger nor satiation, which in turn means that it could be neither desire nor satisfaction, neither interest nor indifference. This rhythm of the spiral cycle, which determines the movement of the experience of life between its two extremes, its maximum and minimum or its law-bound smallest and greatest manifestation, is thus in reality the foundation for the formation of all contrasts and thereby the foundation for the creation of every form of sensory perception or experience of life. If there were no desire that could promote the growth of the experience of life towards an ever-increasing height, what then could promote this growth or development? And if there were no satiation that could stop this development and give rise to the desire for its opposite, how could wishes and desires then be satisfied? And if wishes and desires and their satisfaction did not exist, what would life be? It would be nothing but an eternally existing unmanifested and unexperienced "something that is". An absolute deadly silence would brood where now the whole world or the universe sparkles and radiates.