Livets Bog, vol. 5
The pole-regulating eternal kernel of life
1929. Behind these two sets of organs there exists the regulating talent kernel, which, like all the other talent kernels in the living being, has its seat in the fate element in the being's superconsciousness or X2. Since all vital functions have their innermost or deepest root in this talent kernel, so that all other talent kernels in reality are offshoots of this one great kernel, we will call this the "mother kernel" or the "eternal kernel of life". From this, life's noblest organ, the sexual pole principle, and thereby the cycle or the very manifestations of the "highest fire" in all its phases, is regulated. It is this regulation that expresses itself in all the thousands or millions of nuances of the living being's entire appearance and behaviour. The study of this regulation shows us therefore why the living beings appear in the particular mental and bodily forms of manifestation that they do. Why, for example, does the living being appear as an animal? Why does it appear as a human being? Why does it appear as a Christ, a Buddha or a human being in God's image? Well, the answer is simple and straightforward. The living being's forms of manifestation are but the outer visible effects of the beings' sexual pole constellations and the sympathetic and intellectual faculties regulated by them.