With the increasing urge to become conscious, ejection or expulsion from Primordial Creation, from
Paradise follows automatically, so as to journey through the Animistic Sphere and enter the World of
Matter. Now as soon as the spirit-germ steps out of the Realm of Spiritual Substantiality it would stand
“naked” as such in the lower, different and denser environment. One could also say “uncovered.” It is
then that it feels not only the urge but the absolute necessity to cover itself protectingly with the essence
and nature of the substance surrounding it; to wrap itself in a sort of cloak and take on first the animistic
covering, then the ethereal body and finally also the gross material body.
Not until it has clothed itself in a gross material cloak or body does actual sexual instinct fully
awaken and with it physical shame.
The greater this feeling of shame is the nobler is this instinct and the higher the man also ranks
spiritually. The inner spiritual worth of a human being on earth may be directly measured by the greater
or lesser degree of his physical shame! This is an infallible standard and easily recognized by any man.
When this feeling of outward shame has been choked or eradicated, the soul’s far finer and quite different
feeling of shame will always be choked at the same time and the inner man will consequently be debased.
It is an infallible sign of a deep fall and certain deterioration when humanity, under the guise of
progress, begins to want to “lift” itself above the feeling of shame, this precious jewel whose effect is
positive and supportive in every way! No matter whether this is done under cover of sport, hygiene,
fashion, children’s education or any another welcome pretense. Decline and fall cannot be stayed then,
and only the greatest of shocks can perhaps still bring a few of all those to their senses who so
thoughtlessly allowed themselves to be drawn along this course.
Following its natural expulsion and during its journey through the animistic sphere and material parts
of Creation, not only one but ever more urgent necessities arise for the existence of the spirit-germ in
these lower regions of Creation for their further development and upliftment, which in turn also works to
strengthen and fortify the germ, not only contributing to its own development towards self-consciousness
but even making it possible in the first place.
It is a gigantic working and weaving, interconnected in a thousand ways, yet in spite of all the lively
automatic activity there is such an absolutely logical interlocking with the reciprocal actions that the path
of such a single spirit-germ, right to its very end, appears like part of a beautiful richly colored carpet,
deliberately formed by the hand of an artist, either leading upwards towards self-consciousness or
descending to eventual annihilation in order to protect the others.
There are so many laws working calmly and surely in the wonderful work of Creation that one could
write a treatise on each of the thousand different processes in the life of man, but they would always lead
back to the one great basic truth: the Perfection of the Creator as the Source of all that exists, Whose Will
is the Living Creative Spirit. The Holy Spirit! All that is of spirit is Its Work!
As man originates in this spiritual-substantial Creation he bears within himself a particle of this spirit,
which, although entails the freedom of decision and thus the corresponding responsibility, it is in no way
the same as Divinity Itself, as is so often erroneously assumed and explained.
To those who are capable of a conscious comprehensive overview, all effects of the Divine Will,
which work in Creation through the Natural Laws in such beneficial, supportive ways, will then form into
a wonderfully harmonious hymn of praise. Into one single feeling of gratitude and joy rising through
millions of channels towards the Source.
The eternally recurring process of evolution in Creation, which brings about, at the respective time,
the expulsion of the spirit-germ from Paradise at a certain stage of maturity, also manifests visibly to the
physical eye in all earthly happenings, because everywhere the process is reflected in the same way.
One could also call this expulsion, which is quite a natural development, the process of automatic
severance. It is exactly the same as with a ripe apple or any other ripe fruit which falls from a tree, in
order to release the seed in the process of decomposition according to the Creative Will; and only then,
under the outside influences brought to bear directly upon the fruit, can it break open the covering,
germinate and become a tender plant. The plant in turn can only develop resistance through exposure to
rain, storm and sunshine and thus grow into a strong tree. Thus the expulsion of the mature spirit-germ
from Paradise is an inevitable result of evolution, in much the same way as the Animistic and Material
Spheres, and finally the Gross Material World, are basically only a consequential evolution from the Sphere of Spiritual Substantiality whereby the fundamental characteristics of Original Creation
continually repeat themselves, but with the necessary distinction that the effects manifest differently,
depending on the species of nature and substance. Also, for all of spiritual-substantiality on its journey
through the gross-material earthly, the expulsion of the soul occurs as soon as its time of maturity has
arrived. This is called physical death, and it is the automatic expulsion or severance of the soul from
physical matter and its birth into ethereal matter. Here also one can liken the process to fruit falling from
a tree. In calm weather only ripe fruit fall, but during storms and severe weather unripe fruit fall too. Ripe
fruit are those who pass over into the ethereal beyond at the right time and with their seeds inwardly
matured. They are spiritually “ready” for the beyond, and therefore will quickly take root and be able to
grow upward securely.
Unripe fruit, however, are those whose fall or death, with the accompanying decay of the hitherto
protecting physical body, exposes the as yet unripe ethereal seeds, thus exposing them prematurely to all
the influences, whereby they either have to whither or will be forced to complete their ripening process
before they can take root (adjust themselves) in the ethereal soil (conditions) and thus grow upward.
And so evolution continually proceeds step by step unless in the meantime decay sets in and destroys
insufficiently ripened seeds. Such a seed is then lost and with it, of course, its inherent vital potential for
growing into an independent fruit-bearing tree able to contribute to continuing evolution.
He who looks around attentively can clearly observe many examples of this fundamental picture of
all the happenings in Creation in his immediate environment, the smallest always reflects the greatest.
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Following downwards from this Paradise of Spiritual Substantiality is the realm of all Animistic
Substantiality. The Animistic Substantiality as such is again divided into two parts. First there is
conscious animistic substantiality. This consists of the elementals and nature-beings to which belong the
elves, gnomes, mermaids, etc. These elementals and nature-beings were the necessary preparation for the
further evolution towards the creation of the world of matter, for matter could only come into existence in
unison with animistic substantiality.
The elementals and nature-beings had to co-operate creatively in the developing World of Matter just
as they still do today.
Secondly, in the Sphere of Animistic Substantiality there exists unconscious animistic substantiality.
From this issues the life of the animal soul*(Lecture: The difference in origin of man and animal). Note the
difference between the Sphere of Spiritual Substantiality and the Sphere of Animistic Substantiality. Only
that which is spirit bears within it from the very beginning the power to make a free decision, and the
resulting full responsibility. This is not the case with the lower animistic substantiality.
A further result of the process of evolution was the creation of matter. This is divided into ethereal
matter, in which there are many divisions, and gross matter which, commencing with the finest mist is
visible to the physical eye! But there is no question of a Paradise on earth, as the earth is the outermost
edge of gross matter. A reflection of the real Paradise is to be on earth at some time under the rule of the
Son of Man at the beginning of the Kingdom of the Millennium, at which time there will also be erected
an earthly replica of the Grail Castle, the archetype of which stands on the highest heights of the true
Paradise as the hitherto only true Temple of God.