43. The Spiritual Guidance of Man and Humanity III

So let's understand: how do humans think? More or less in such a way that he starts from a certain point and says: I have understood this or that, and from this point he now tries to understand various other things. If this were not the path of human thought, the school path would not be so difficult for some things. I can assume that the Theosophists have a mental image in this respect: you cannot learn mathematics from one day to the next, because you have to start at one point - and progress slowly. It takes a long time. You cannot overlook thinking at a glance, because human thinking takes time. It is not there in one fell swoop. You have to search, you have to make an effort to find the thought. The other beings do not have this peculiarity of man; but with the same speed with which an animal, for example, realizes when it has something edible for its instinct in front of it that it snatches at it, the thought arises in the soul of such a superhuman being - and is there. Instinct and thoughtful consciousness have no difference in relation to these entities, they are one and the same. Just as animals have instinct on their levels, in their realm, so these dhyanic beings or Angeloi have direct spiritual thinking, direct spiritual imagination; they have something like an instinctive inner life of imagination, so they are of a completely different nature than humans.