4. The Beings of the Astral World

However, these are not yet all entities of the astral world. We also meet in the astral world entities of a nature difficult to describe, entities whose size we cannot survey, entities of a size as if they extended over our whole planetary system. These entities, which span the whole earth, clearly show that they have something to do with our earthly development, but earthly man can only with difficulty form an idea of them. These entities, which exist in the most different variations, are connected with the whole of our development. They went through a development in the earlier rounds of the earth's development. Three rounds preceded our earth and three rounds will follow. These entities, which were called "Devas" in the oldest and even more spiritual religions, will have reached a higher development when our earth will have reached its goal. They are thought to be human-like, because people cannot form a proper idea of them. However, the people who know something about them will find it indicated how the cosmological development is going on.