“And so, it follows from all that has been said that although according to our time-calculations you are still only like a boy of twelve there on the planet Earth who is not yet formed and not yet cognizant of himself, yet according to their subjective understanding and their BEING-SENSATIONS of the flow of Time, you have already existed by their time-calculation, not twelve years but the whole of four thousand six hundred and sixty-eight years. BTG XVI

“In any case, my dear boy, when you learn more about these favorites of yours, not only, I repeat, will you clearly see how pitiably small the duration of the existence of these unfortunates has gradually become in comparison with that normal duration of existence which has already long ago been established as a law for every kind of three-centered beings of the whole of our Universe, but you will also understand that in these unfortunates for the same reasons, there has gradually begun to disappear and at the present time are quite absent in them, any normal BEING-SENSATIONS whatever concerning any cosmic phenomenon. BTG XVI

“‘From the influence of such actions upon their degenerated Reason and on the degenerated factors in their localizations, which factors actualize their BEING-SENSATIONS, not only is there crystallized a false conviction concerning the mentioned fictions, but thereafter in all sincerity and faith, they will even vehemently prove to those around them, that it is just so and can in no way be otherwise. BTG XXVI