The Ear

These transformations, however, not only take their course in the direction I have described, but in the opposite direction too. With your legs you walk about on Earth. And—if you will forgive my saying so—you either walk to good deeds or to bad; to better or to worse. Now as to the movements of your legs, on Earth, to begin with, it is no doubt a matter of indifference whether you walk to good deeds or to bad. But true as it is that the lower man is metamorphosed from the plan of an ear into that form wherewith he stands upon the Earth, it is also true that the moral effects which are brought about by your walking—whether you go out to do good deeds or bad—are all transformed after you pass through the gate of Death—not immediately but after a certain time—transformed into the sounds as of a heavenly speech and music.