Initiation or Consecration

What does the development through the horizontal line to complete rotation mean? It means that the human being has attained his present bright daytime consciousness. By passing through the animals, the human being has become a being with bright daytime consciousness. In return, he has had to lose something else. Look at the plant: it is not permeated by the body of desire, by the astral body. The plant substance has a physical body and an etheric body. Man must pass through the animal and integrate instincts, desires, and passions. Man has risen higher by integrating the nature of desire into the plant body.