Eleventh Lecture

So we can say: if we develop spiritual vision within ourselves, we can see how nature gradually affects human beings, how human beings, through their ego organization, draw in the spirit of the mineral kingdom, how, through their astral organization, they draw in the spirit of the plant kingdom, and through their etheric organization, the spirit the spiritual of the animal kingdom, and through his physical organization, merely the physical of the human being. We can no longer speak of the spirit. Even with the animal organization, which acts on the etheric body, we can no longer really speak of the spiritual, but only of the etheric in the animal itself.