132. Human and Animal World

In the natural order, the spirits of form are at work (with the higher hierarchies); they are contained in everything that man perceives in mineral and plant nature - therein sleeps and dreams his ego and his soul body - during physical life -; during spiritual life, man is in a world that is composed of the ideas and feelings experienced in the human and animal. He familiarizes himself with this world: the ideas merge with the feelings and the will becomes devotion in the feelings - love; over this world, man expands his being - as he can become wise on earth, he can become strong-willed in the spiritual realm. This will on this side of the sense zone can lead to the destruction of the traces of the earth - from this, immersion in the physical body protects, which binds the will through the creature of the spirits of form. There is the possibility of taking up the whole human and animal world through the chains -; connected with this is an increase in power, which arises from the sum of the increases in power through each individual human being; man has power over the animal world immediately after overcoming his astral element. — Man rules over men in accordance with the karmic chains — in the animal world (its development), as far as it is not of an ahrimanic nature, after death; he is Lord in everything that comes from the universe through the spirits of form. Wherever man works, pleasure or pain arises with his effect – which immediately brings him sympathy or antipathy – and, beyond that, a world that makes him strong or weak – promotes or extinguishes his existence –; if he dies without spiritual ideas, he is held in the earthly sphere with the ahrimanic animal world. –

I: The realm of pleasure and pain – of sympathy and antipathy – is experienced as an external world that one has within.

II: The realm of invigoration and enervation is experienced as a related external world that one has within.

III: The realm of the non-individualized spirit is experienced as a world that acts within.

IV: The realm of the individualized spirit that has become the ego is experienced as an inner world.

Christ the organ to the spirit restored.