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Chapter 12
Life Substances
Introduction  763. We have now come so far in our study of the living being that we know that it constitutes an eternal reality. But we also know that it represents more than this eternal existence. It also constitutes the fundamental phenomenon that we call "life". If this phenomenon were not bound to the eternal existence of the I, it could never in any situation whatsoever be experienced. There would be no form of thought, will or consciousness whatsoever, just as there would be no "creation" or "created things". To the "divine something", which exists as the "causeless cause" or I behind every form of movement, an eternal "nothing" would turn its eternal existence into a domain of one hundred per cent death. What we now know as constituting this "divine something" behind the universe and the living beings would be an unconscious, indeed, lifeless prisoner in an eternally unopened grave. But as such a condition of absolute death can exist only as an imagined opposite of the fact that absolute reality represents, namely the fact of an eternally existing life, it will be necessary for the seeker after truth to become acquainted with the special substances of this eternal life or the material of which it is built up. We will therefore, in collaboration with the reader, proceed to dwell on this important question.


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