The deeper thinkers among our astronomers see no beginning and no end to the universe; it is to them a process and not a static thing. To this view a philosopher would echo assent, but in accordance with the World-Idea. Just as the wave of life prepares, enters, and leaves our human bodies, so does it prepare, enter, and leave each of the numerous universes.

-- Notebooks Category 26: World-Idea > Chapter 1: Divine Order of The Universe > # 74