For any event to happen, the basic ingredient for existence mentioned above, the metaphysical entities must exist and happen simultaneously, and this means not in causality but outside it. It must be an event in itself that has no cause or reason; it is self-created and independent of anything that creates the main ingredients of the metaphysical existence themselves—space, time, causality, matter, natural forces, and morality.
The event in itself creates all in one stroke without using but instead creating existence’s ingredients. The event in itself must be the inner will, the will or the thing in itself—the metaphysical basis of the will. In the void, it is in the will-less state, and when it wills, it is the event in itself and existence exists from nothingness; thus willed the will.
The drives of the will, the irresistible force emerging from the void, are the essence of the will itself. They are our moral characters and govern our conduct from the day we are born to the day we die. Kant called it intelligible character, because they are metaphysical and can be inferred from abstract reason, by observing the daily conduct of a person, which he calls the empirical character. Out of the void, the moral will split itself to four major intelligible characters. The first wills find themselves objectified as humans with these characters; they are forced to assume it, so to speak. It doesn’t matter which characters we started with. But they all have a chance either to make it better or worse through constant reincarnations. Wills needs to change characters by improving their deeds. Deeds must comply with the world’s order and causality which needs an extensive causal nexus. All of that needs a long time to be realized, i.e., many life times, this where the concept of reincarnation becomes inevitable. After the assumption of the first character, all humans get the next character as a chance for improvement. This means, changing characters become a predictable process, like changing seasons. It becomes a harmonic motion.
Most of the moral actions of humans are due to four main incentives that result in four major characters. By changing these four characters, there is a chance to achieve salvation at the fourth character type. …. Gaining or losing protons, neutrons, or electrons will change a metal to a nobler or lesser one. By performing moral or immoral actions, the will changes its quality in four major intelligible characters—type 1 (aggressive), type 2 (egoist), type 3 (moral), or type 4 (resigned). This change is movement. The moral will moves only in time, not in space.
The only possible motion in time only is the harmonic motion in circles. The will must go in cycles of rebirth; every cycle takes four lives so it can change its main four qualities one at a time as explained before. The only way for the will to change characters and the accompanying intellect is by dying and reincarnating as a new human being. Any living being has created itself.
To solve the riddle of existence, we have to answer these questions: Who are we? Why are we that way and not otherwise? … We are what we are because we display our intelligible character. The reason of our intelligible character is that our will moves in harmonic motion. It displays one character every life time that is necessary and predictable. Schopenhauer regarded it to be the most difficult of all problems, but now, in this book, the riddle of existence has been solved.
To be perceived, the will must get into phenomena with the help of matter. The will doesn’t create a phenomenon, but it objectifies itself as one…. The word create implies duality, but creator and created are one. The word objectify means that an unseen, bodiless, and nonmaterial thing takes the form of a material object that can be seen.
…Are we really one? If somebody asks me this question in general, I have to answer no four times and then yes because there are many aspects of a human being…. As body, intellect, and moral character in will and in deeds, we are not one. When we get rid of all of these and reach the void, there will be no body, intellect, moral character, or personality and all deeds would have been expiated. Then the will abolishes itself, and we are finally in oneness. Only in the void are we one.
… The will moves in harmonic motion, and only metaphysical actions fuel it. It moves by changing characters from victor to victim and thus creates and expiates immoral deeds. Metaphysical actions are the main driving force of our existence. Immorality is the basis of the will’s movement.… a metaphysical action or an immoral action is one capable of changing the moral constitution of the will. The immoral deed once issued affects only the issuing will, the doer.
… When we die, we lose our body, intellect, ego, and moral character. Only our will and our deeds survive death. If death erases our deeds, eternal justice is lost too. According to its count of immoral deeds, the will acquires a new character according to its moral curve. The immoral deeds will be retained potentially in the will in a new incarnation; they will be expiated by fate through its causal nexus in time. Death becomes a necessity to move this will to the next character on its moral curve. Death happens, and the will carrying its immoral deeds survives the body; it reincarnates itself in a new body, intellect, and moral character and resumes its role in the divine comedy…. After death, both victor and victim vanish forever along with their personalities and their individual egos. Deeds stick with the will, and what is left will be objectified somewhere, sometime, as a different individual and will continue the divine comedy that was interrupted by its death.
…. The will is the inner being of everything, and every living being can state the following:
“I am the will and the only thing that exists. Nothing can exist besides me because I am the all in all. I left the oneness of the void and assumed multiple forms just to be perceivable in the world, but I am the inner essence of everything, whole and undivided. I am the creator of everything by objectifying myself as different forms, but forms are empty, and I am their essence. Since I am the only existing entity, I have to feed on myself physically and morally. I am the victor and the victim…..”
…… “Who is controlling, governing, and driving the universe? Only two things exist: matter and the will. Matter is just the form and reflex of the will, therefore not governing the universe; matter is governed by the physical causal laws. Consequently, the universe is governed by the essence of things, the will. The will, the moral essence of the universe obeys its own causal moral law, the eternal justice. The laws of causality has two aspects, physical and metaphysical, they are one and the same thing acting in two different ways. Therefore the universe is governed by the laws of causality with both aspects. We conclude that the will, exists in the world and as the world and acts according to the most predictable and infallible laws of causality, because it is the physical and metaphysical; this is the ultimate truth.”
…. Revenge is the fuel that keeps the will in the vicious cycle of existence. Again, it is the responsibility of the victim to realize that the suffering he is enduring is a reaction for an action committed by him before, and scales are balanced, so there is no need for revenge. This is the first and only step to salvation. Only type 4 has a shot at salvation.
… Every immoral deed changes the universe a little. Because of this action, it must fit an immoral reaction in the causal nexus so that it goes on smoothly according to the physical and moral causal laws. The will achieves that by changing characters and intellects through reobjectification or reincarnation.