10. Occult Signs and Symbols of the Astral World

Imagine if a clairvoyant had looked down and followed this development. He would not have looked at each individual Cherusker, but he would have focused his attention on the Folk-souls. He would see how the soul arises and develops, but then he would see something else. When we follow a person up into Devachan since his last death, we continue to follow his life in those higher worlds until he steps down again into earthly life and so on. We do not see such a Folk-souls disappear and reappear on its plan, but as it once transformed itself from another soul, so it forms itself anew on its own plan. The Cheruscan soul had transformed itself from another Folk-souls and is now forming itself into another. A Folk-souls consists of sensations, impulses, desires, like a human being of nerves, muscles and so on, and is always being created anew from itself, is always creating itself anew from the eternal fire, and such a Folk-soul does not leave its world. Such beings exist today; they never appear on earth. And because they have appeared to some people in the form of a bird, such beings have been called “bird phoenixes”. It is a fact and is simply modeled on the astral experience, event. Thus we have cited an important symbol.