1. Take a look at a Birch Tree. Do you see its thousands of leaves moving in the wind? Living thinking that is conscious of its own spiritual activity is like the wind that blows the leaves, creating all of their complex patterns and motions. But no one would say that the movements of the 1000s of leaves create the motion of the wind. Likewise, you are the upright Spirit-I who thinks self-consciously and intuitively in the folds of real-thinking acts - you are like the spirit of the wind that blows the leaves. The brain and the nervous system are the leaves.
2. Consider a puppet show. Do you see the complex movements of many different characters on the stage? Living and pure thinking that intuits or dives into the moment by moment acts of its spiritual creativity is like the human actor who puts his hand in a puppet. No one would say that the puppets' motions are the real action and that the human actors below the stage are the creations of the puppets. Likewise, the real thinking I is like the willful activity in the human hand that produces complex reflected movement in the puppet. The physiology of the human mineral body and the dying part of the life body is the where the puppet-show takes place.
3. Consider the complex print from a woodcut. Do you see the tiny lines and curves of the ink that displays a rich picture on the paper? Spiritual activity in thinking which is intuitively free is like a moving forest growing and walking - a living fabric of wood. If consciousness stops to observe the current living fabric with the eye of living thinking, it freezes the scene. There is now a woodcut. Then I press this woodcut into ink, and then press the inky side onto paper. No one would say that the ink on paper has caused the woodcut. Also, the person looking at the print would suppose that the original woodcut was the only 'original' and would not even know about the living flowing fabric of wood. Is there a very close resemblance between the woodcut and the print? Yes - but let us note which one is the cause of the other. Living thinking is like the growing invisible wooden landscape. It is 'wooden' because it is substantial and real, the projection of this living thinking into self-consciousness on the earth is like the process of freezing the landscape into just one picture. The printing process (noticed how it is reversed) is like the creation of the mental image, which is then reflected in a symbolic and distributed chemical and biological pattern onto the brain and nervous system.
