43. Consciousness – Life – Form

This world was preceded by another in which man lived like a dreaming creature. His physical body was then in the state in which it is during dream-filled sleep. The surroundings resembled a panorama of moving pictures. There were no fixed outlines of things. This state was interrupted by another one, which corresponds to the present dreamless sleep. And this in turn was followed by one that can no longer be realized today and that was filled by the first of the forms of consciousness characterized above.