XXV. On the Apocalypse I

But there are still other returnees: the people who do not move forward. There are those who cannot help it, who do not come to the state of awakening that is necessary for spirituality. They remain slaves to their animal instincts. Even if they cannot help it, they are still an evil force. This is the second of the animals, those who remain stuck in animality, cast out as the second of the animals. The “old serpent” says the Apocalypse – the luciferic beings – appear from heaven; the second dragon rises from the sea, that is what has remained in the lower nature in the development of the earth itself, “the animal in its totality – remaining in its instincts.