“For the greater elucidation of this question and for your better understanding, and also not to waste time on explanations concerning the essence itself and also the forms of functioning of such definite cosmic realizations as these just-mentioned Bobbin-kandelnosts, which are lawfully crystallized in the localizations or brains of those beings who exist only on the basis of Itoklanoz, I intend to take as an elucidating example just those ‘Djamtesternokhi’ such as your favorites also have and which they call ‘mechanical WATCHES’. 2528 BTG XXIX

“As you already well know, although such Djamtesternokhi or mechanical WATCHES are of different what are called ‘systems’, yet they are all constructed on the same principle of ‘tension-or-pressure-of-the-unwinding-spring’. “One system of Djamtesternokhi or mechanical watch contains a spring exactly calculated and arranged so that the length of the duration of its tension from unwinding may be sufficient for twenty-four hours; another system has a spring for a week, a third for a month, and so on. 2529 BTG XXIX

“The Bobbin-kandelnost in the brains of beings existing only according to the principle Itoklanoz corresponds to the spring in mechanical WATCHES of various systems. 2530 BTG XXIX

“Just as the duration of the movement of mechanical WATCHES depends upon the spring they contain, so the duration of the existence of beings depends exclusively on the Bobbin-kandelnosts formed in their brains during their arising and during the process of their further formation. 2531 BTG XXIX

“As mechanical WATCHES can act as long as the spring has what is called ‘the-tension-of-winding’, so the beings in whose brains the said Bobbin-kandelnosts are crystallized can experience and consequently exist until these Bobbin-kandelnosts formed in their brains — owing to the mentioned seven external conditions — are used up. 2534 BTG XXIX

“The difference between mechanical WATCHES and your contemporary favorites is only that in mechanical WATCHES there is one spring, while your favorites have three of these independent Bobbin-kandelnosts. 2538 BTG XXIX

“In all the mechanical WATCHES of various systems they use this said simple secret for regulating what is called the ‘tension’ of the said spring or the corresponding part of the general mechanism of the watch; and it is called, it seems, the ‘regulator’. 2559 BTG XXIX

“But in your favorites, specially in your contemporary favorites who exist constantly passively under the direction of only one of the separate spiritualized parts of their common presence and thereby constantly manifest themselves entirely by their factors for negative properties also lawfully arisen in them, and hence, by negative manifestations, there proceeds in them that same disproportionate expenditure of the contents of their various Bobbin-kandelnosts, that is to say, the possibilities, placed in them by Nature according to law, of action by only one or only two of their brains, are always experienced, in consequence of which the contents of one or two of their Bobbin-kandelnosts are prematurely exhausted; whereupon just like those mechanical WATCHES in which the winding is run down or the force of their regulators is weakened, they cease to act. 2563 BTG XXIX

“Turning to us he said: “‘I will now produce from these combined pipes only five different tones of sound, and you please look attentively at this pot of flowers and look at your WATCHES and notice how long I continue to produce these sounds and also remember the numbers indicated by the hands of the vibrometers for these sounds’. 5358 BTG XLI

Whereupon it follows that life in general is given to people not for themselves, but that this life is necessary for the said Higher Cosmic Purposes, in consequence of which Great Nature WATCHES over this life so that it may flow in a more or less tolerable form, and takes care that it should not prematurely cease. 7363 BTG XLVIII