9. Interpretations of Fairy Tales

Then the person recounts what has happened in the spiritual world, and he must recount it in such a way that he says: What I have seen and am recounting actually happened once; but it always happens behind the sensory world, in the spiritual world, where other conditions of life prevail. It may be that every time the person concerned has seen something in such a state, this event has already died out and the conditions under which such an action can take place have already passed. But it may still be there. That depends on whether someone in an intermediate state appears somewhere to observe it. It is also not here and not there, but everywhere where there is someone who can observe it. Therefore, every fairy tale that is stylistically correct must begin with: Once upon a time something happened—where was it? Yes, where was it not?