X2

X2 is Martinus’ designation for the living being’s creative faculty: the eternal principle through which an I can sense, create and experience. In the triune analysis, X2 is neither the experiencing I nor the created organism and consciousness. It is the principle by which the I is expressed as a living being. Martinus also calls it the mother energy, the superconsciousness, or the divine creative principle.

An early formulation describes the divine creative principle as the carrying foundation of every form of life experience and as the chief factor in the reality later designated X2.

X2 in the triune principle

Martinus analyses every living being, and the Universe as a whole, as three inseparable principles: X1, X2 and X3. X1 is the I, the nameless something that experiences; X2 is the faculty to create; and X3 is that which is created—the organism, consciousness and other manifestations through which experience becomes possible. The three are not successive parts that can exist independently. Without an I there is no one to direct a creative faculty; without X2 there can be no creation; and without X3 the I cannot be manifested or experience life.

An early presentation describes the three vertical areas of the living being as the fixed point, the divine creative principle and created reality—the three aspects later designated X1, X2 and X3. A later analysis in *Livets Bog* describes the absolute reality, the sensory or creative faculty and the sensed, created reality as three analyses.

X1 is the eternal fixed point, X2 is the principle of creative and sensory activity, and X3 is the changing result. Martinus consequently says that X2 and X3 are the life and consciousness of X1: they are its eternal characteristic expression, although their particular manifestations in time and space are created and perishable.

Creative faculty and experience

X2 is called a creative faculty because it includes both the ability to create and the ability to experience. Through X2 the I can build an organism or body, create in matter, express itself to other I's and experience their expressions through the things they create. Martinus argues that this faculty cannot itself have been created: a created faculty would presuppose an earlier I that already had the faculty needed to create it. X2 is therefore, like X1, an eternal and nameless “Something that is”.

Experience is the I’s contact with created energies and movements. X2 is the faculty by which the I senses and creates, while X3 is the experienced and created manifestation. Seeing, hearing, thinking, willing and acting therefore belong to the living being’s triune activity rather than to matter considered alone.

In Martinus’s terminology, consciousness has both a created and an eternal context. The day-conscious result of interaction with created matter belongs to the temporal sphere, while the ability and structure that produce and organise this experience belong to X2. X2 is therefore described as the superconsciousness, while the conscious fields and bodies that extend into time and space belong to the subconsciousness and X3.

Mother energy and superconsciousness

The mother energy is the seventh basic energy and the “matter” of the superconsciousness. Unlike the six basic energies that form temporal and spatial organisms and experiences, it does not become solid, liquid or gaseous. Martinus describes it as remaining ray-formed and as accessible only indirectly, through the creative faculty behind substances. Since it functions both in physical embodiment and outside it, and both during waking and sleep, it is identified with the living being’s superconsciousness.

A passage further describes the mother energy as the I’s seventh great source of power. It says that the six other energies provide material for temporal bodies and mentality, while the mother energy provides the basis for what is carried from one life to another, including abilities and talents, and regulates the rhythms of the other energies. The English symbol explanation likewise identifies the eternal part of the basic-energy bodies together with the mother energy as X2.

X2 is the eternal creative structure associated with the I. Together, X1 and this structure form the superconsciousness. Within that structure are the fate-element and its talent kernels, through which abilities and talents are preserved and can participate in the creation of new bodies. The faculty to renew bodies after they have become worn out is therefore eternal even though each individual body is temporary. Martinus connects this process with Reincarnation.

The fate-element is an automatic function of X2. Martinus describes it as containing a centre for each of the six basic energies and as the innermost seat of abilities and talents. Repeated manifestations form habits and talent kernels; these can later promote the corresponding functions without detailed participation by the physical brain.

Primordial desire, attraction and fate

The first movement from the stillness of X1 into manifestation is the primordial desire. Martinus describes it as an eternal desire for life and experience, outside ordinary physical day-consciousness. In its nameless form it is rooted in the divine something, binds the I to the superconsciousness and fate-element, and continues from there into the subconsciousness. It is thus a central function of X2 rather than a particular personal wish.

Through the primordial desire, the six basic energies are organised into changing combinations. The six centres in the fate-element are the points at which the desire meets the basic energies. Their strengthening and weakening produces the rhythmic movement that underlies the spiral cycle and the succession of the planes of existence. X2 thus turns the I’s general desire for life into differentiated forms of instinct, gravity, feeling, intelligence, intuition and memory.

At its earliest manifesting level, the function of X2 appears as attraction and repulsion. Martinus describes these as the first faint forms of sympathy and antipathy. Through the fate-element, abilities, tendencies, virtues and vices are gradually rooted in the being’s structure.

The present primordial desire is related to previous experience and fate. Martinus writes that primordial desire brings about fate and fate brings about primordial desire, an eternal relation in which the being’s life is never without a creative and experiential continuity. All manifestation lies in X2 and X3, while these constitute the life and consciousness of X1.

The six basic energies and the spiral cycle

X2 does not itself become one of the six temporal substances. The six basic energies are material or substance used in creation, while X2 is the eternal faculty and structure that organises them. The six energies are instinct, gravity, feeling, intelligence, intuition and memory. Each has a talent kernel in the fate-element and each supplies material for a corresponding field of consciousness and type of organism.

Their combinations give rise to the six planes of a spiral cycle: the Plant kingdom, Animal-kingdom, human kingdom, Kingdom of wisdom, Divine world and Kingdom of bliss. All six energies are present on every plane, but one is culminating and the others have changing degrees of capacity. X2, through the mother energy, governs this rhythmic transformation. Without this transformation, Martinus says, there would be no changing manifestation or experience—and no matter.

The physical organism and the other created bodies belong to X3, but their possibility, renewal and organisation depend on X2. Evolution and involution are transformations in this continuing creative process.

X2, organism and matter

An organism is an extension of the creative faculty into created reality. Martinus describes the result of X2 as the I’s bodies, organs and structures created in matter. These have dimensions in time and space and are therefore perishable. The physical body is the form most familiar to terrestrial human beings, but it is only one instrument among several.

X2 uses the combinations of the basic energies to form bodies through which the I can manifest and experience. In the symbol explanation of the triune being, the coloured areas representing X3 are the result of the superconscious and subconscious functions; they represent consciousness and organism. The eternal part of the basic-energy structure, together with the mother energy, belongs to X2.

A discussion of the relation between physical and spiritual bodies describes the superconsciousness as carried by an eternal body containing the fate-element and talent kernels, while the physical and spiritual bodies are its manifestations in created matter. Matter is created substance and movement, formed from the basic energies and serving as material for organisms and experience. The living being is simultaneously a macrobeing for the microbeings in its organism and a microbeing in a larger organism.

X2 and the Godhead

The triune analysis also describes the Godhead. In Martinus’s symbolism, the violet area signifies the mother energy or X2, while the triangle signifies the three X’s together. The coloured fields show the basic energies as material for the planes of existence, and the organisms formed from them.

An early symbol explanation compares the universe or Godhead to a radiant sun: the violet radiation is the mother energy or divine creative principle, from which the other basic energies are expressed. The universe is presented as a living being in the same triune pattern. Individual living beings are units within its organism, and the Godhead’s creative activity is expressed through the living beings and their organisms.

X1, X2 and X3 in summary

• X1 is the eternal I or experiencing “Something”: the fixed point and source behind movement.

• X2 is the eternal creative and sensory faculty: the mother energy, superconsciousness, fate-element and talent-kernel structure through which the I organises manifestation.

• X3 is that which is created: the changing consciousness, organisms, bodies, matter and manifestations through which the I experiences life.

The three are one living reality viewed under three aspects. X2 is the eternal principle that makes the relation between the I and created reality possible. Through it, the living being remains an experiencing and creating being throughout the changing worlds and bodies of the spiral cycle.

See also

• X1
• X3
• The Living Being
• Creative faculty
• Superconsciousness