Elemental Beings and European Cultural Development
And now we come to the cosmic mind of the earth. The earth has cosmic mind, which conditions its form, conditions its form in such a way that it raises the land everywhere as far as is necessary for the right elemental spirits to come into contact with the beings on the earth, and on the other hand allows the water to exist as far as is necessary for the inspiring genii to work.
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