4. The Beings of the Astral World

Visible only to the most highly developed of our time are still higher beings, who rarely stay in the astral world, because they have their home in still higher regions, on still higher levels of the spiritual world. When the chela evolves, he acquires the ability to have consciousness not only in the astral, but to have consciousness also in the still higher world, in the spiritual or devachanic world, which is higher than the astral world. In this higher world the self is mirrored to him. Man experiences himself in the higher spiritual regions as the mirror image he sees in the physical world. The beings, which belong here, are visible only for highly developed ones. Also these beings can renounce what is to be understood as the highest task of our earthly existence, they can renounce the "Nirvana". Such a being can renounce nirvana, it can return to the earthly world, to which it itself did not need to return at all, in order to help people. Such beings are called nirmanakayas. They are able to descend from the spiritual world into the astral and into the physical world, and in order to have a "point of attack" there, they take on an astral body. They do this to help people. These are the Nirmanakayas, which we can meet in the astral world, although rarely. I am speaking here of such entities, which are not visible to physical eyes, but only to those eyes that can receive impressions from the astral space. If the eyes can perceive impressions in the astral world, then they can perceive there Nirmanakayas and also such human beings who are between death and the next embodiment. I will talk about this in the next lecture.