© by MartinusMain symbol According to ''Livets bog (The Book of Life)'' (my main work about life) the universe constitutes three great basic principles that together constitute an indivisible unit that we term a living being. The universe consists of an ocean of processes of creation that always ultimately lead to logical and purposeful results. We know these results as the created things. Since these created things such as planets. suns and galaxies. or the phenomena on our own planet - rain and sunshine. day and night. winter and summer and so on - together with the living beings' organisms. which are in themselves the very culmination of true masterpieces as tools for their originator's particular form of life-experience. are thus the result of planned and purposeful creation. they make this ocean of creation tantamount to consciousness, thought-function and direction of the mind. How else could a planned or purposeful manifestation or logical creation come about'? When there is such logic in all the creation of nature. a thinking and willing "I" must exist behind this revelation of mentality. We know from our own appearance that there exists within us such an experiencing. directing. and thinking "I'' behind our own revelation of mentality. an "I" without which this revelation would be an impossibility. Why should the equivalent not be the case behind the universe's revelation of planning and purposefulness or logical creation'? According to the cosmic analyses in Livets Bog the universe is an organism through which a living. thinking and willing I can reveal itself as a livir1g being in the same way as our own organism is a tool through which our I or innermost self can reveal itself as a living being. The first and most .simple analysis of the universe is these three basic principles, which may he termed the 1 the creative ability and the created. Anything whatsoever that exists in the universe will inevitably come under one or another of these three principles. Since these above-mentioned principles constitute precisely the three conditions that have to be fulfilled in order that "something" can appear as a living being. the universe. By virtue of its structure. is thus a living being. This analysis in turn makes the existence of the Godhead a living reality or fact and confirms the old quotation. "In Him we live and move and have our being''. As ''something" cannot come from "nothing'' no more than "something" can become "nothing'' then this giant-being exists eternally. It can never have begun just as it can never come to an end. But something that is eternal and infinite can only have this single and absolute analysis - that it constitutes "something that is" .None of these three basic principles mentioned can have any other analysis. If we say about the I that it is large or that it is small, it is divine or not divine. it is beautiful or ugly. it is evil or good and so on. these expressions will only describe phenomena that are produced by this something. They cannot therefore constitute this something itself since this must have already existed before the production of the above-mentioned phenomena. If we say about the creative ability that it is gigantic or that it is small. it is perfect or imperfect. or we express it with other such analyses. these analyses will be quite wrong and without value. A creative ability that causes the creation of everything that is large and small. everything that is evil or good. everything that is perfect or imperfect, indeed everything that is at all created in the universe it self contains all creation and is thereby infinite. But something that is infinite cannot be expressed by a time- and space-dimensional analysis. This eternal and infinite creative ability can, like the 1. only be expressed as :something that is '. In the same way everything that is created also remains without analysis since it embraces everything whatsoever that exists, both the large and the small. the evil and the good. the perfect and the imperfect and so on. It thus contains the very culmination of light as well as the culmination of darkness and is. just like the two other basic principles. infinite and eternal. It cannot therefore possibly have any time- and space-dimensional analysis. It too can only he expressed as something that is". The namelessness of' these three principles is marked by the letter X. The I is thus expressed in the cosmic analyses as "X1", the creative ability as ' X2'' and the created as "X3''. On the front page symbol the I or X I is expressed by the white six-pointed star figure in the middle. The creative ability or X2 is expressed by the outermost violet field on the symbol. The small round white fields in the same area express the l's of the living beings in the universe or the giant-organism that the symbol expresses. Between the violet field and the white field in the middle there is an area on the symbol marked by six coloured fields. This area expresses the created or "X3". It appears in the six colours because the matter that makes up all created things. both physical and mental, manifests itself as six great basic energies. These have each in turn an area where they culminate and characterise existence. The first basic energy is known under the term "instinct" and culminates in the plant kingdom (red colour). The next basic energy is expressed as "the energy of gravity". It is the basis for the killing principle and culminates in the animal kingdom (the orange colour). The third energy is known as "feeling" and culminates in the perfect human kingdom. which is the last kingdom on the material plane of existence (yellow colour). Next comes the mental or spiritual worlds in which intelligence. intuition and memory, the last of the six basic energies each create their kingdom or plane of existence. We cannot go into the explanatory analyses in more detail here and must therefore refer the reader to the large main work. We will however here just mention that the above-mentioned three irremovable principles - X1. X2 and X3 or the 1, the creative ability and the created, which in turn means the 1, the consciousness and the organism, constitute the basic analysis of the universe as well as of the structure of the living being, and thereby reveal that the universe is in itself a living, organic, physical and mental being in whom we thus "live and move and have our being" in the same way as the micro-beings - cells, molecules. blood cells and so on - live and move and have their being within us or our organism. We thus see here how life itself turns the divine expression "man in God's image after His likeness" into an eternal radiant reality.