Elementary world
The Elemental Kingdoms During the earlier embodiments of the earth, at the old Saturn, on the old sun, the old moon, the elemental beings arose through the doing of the angels of the first hierarchy. On Saturn, thoughts and wills condensed into warmth. In order to maintain this warmth, parts of the high beings, which let such warmth flow out, are segregated, which henceforth maintain it as elements of warmth. Through further condensation of heat, air (old sun) is created as the first matter. Also here, high beings pour out the forces that make this air materialize. Parts of these beings are torn off, which will form the elemental beings of air in the future. This matter is further condensed and a liquid matter (old moon) is created. The highest compression happens on earth, the elemental beings of the earth are created (B007). Man is the one world being who has united his four members of being: the physical body, the etheric body, the astral body and the ego during the waking state at the physical plan. In the animal, the group ego lives on the astral plane and the other limbs live on the physical plan, in the plant, the astral body lives on the astral plane and the ego lives in the lower spiritual realm (etheric body and physical body on the physical plan), in the mineral, the etheric body lives on the astral plane, the astral body lives in the lower spiritual realm and the ego lives in the higher spiritual realm and only the physical body lives on the physical plan. Now the elemental kingdoms are formed by beings that have gradually lagged behind the human kingdom, similar to the beings of the animal, plant and mineral kingdoms. Whose egoes have not embodied themselves down to the physical plan "they form the hidden realms, the elemental realms, which lie behind our physical world and which work their way into our physical world. (B026, lecture of 4.12.1907). 1.elementary kingdom 2.elementary rich 3.elementary rich higher mind ICH low mind area Astral Body ICH Astral Plan Ether body, corpse Astral body, etheric body, corpse I, astral body, ether body, physical body is a body of fire. physical plan Replace the human astral body during sleep. Replace the human ego during sleep. Task in the elemental realm Give the minerals their shape. Shapes and forms the plant. Shapes shoots and passions. Table 6: Plants on which the various elemental beings have their limbs, as well as their tasks in the elemental realms This is how the elemental realms are created in which different elemental beings work. These elemental realms can also be called stages of life as it gradually brings itself from an inner, spiritual to an outer revelation, that is, stages of life. 1. elemental kingdom: The kingdom of the archetypal formless beings Primeval forms that have not yet taken shape. The beings of the first elemental kingdom give shape to the minerals. "The forces of the minerals, which act as repulsion and attraction, the atomistic forces, originate from the group ego of the minerals. What shapes the minerals are the beings of the first elemental realm." (B026, 4.12.1907). Here the being makes itself noticeable to the outside, it is most subjective and becomes more and more objective towards the 2nd and 3rd elementary kingdom up to the human kingdom (B116, 25.10.1904). 2nd elementary kingdom: The kingdom of the soul beings. Sensually invisible power beings, masters of plant growth. "It works and forms in a pure element, it shapes and structures the forms of the plants. ... these beings work from the outside, shaping them, making them open up, making them blossom. In the plants "... the plant-ego, which runs through the ether and astral body" and the forces of the 2nd elementary kingdom, which "builds up the body in the plant", work together. (B026, 4.12.1907). Thus the plant-ego acts from within and the beings of the 2nd elementary kingdom from outside on the plants. 3rd elementary kingdom: The kingdom of the spiritual beings. In the animal kingdom, formless beings are present as masters of the work, who bring about the sensations and drives, and who clothe themselves in soul shells. These beings penetrate the blood of the human being when he sleeps and replace the effects of his ego and his astral body. "...which works in the blood at night, has a warm body... "it penetrates the blood with warmth... But they also enliven the astral body of man with drives, desires and passions. 4.the realm of the created forms, the mineral kingdom. On this level the subjective has become objective to the extent that it has entered the outer world. 5.the realm that becomes sensually perceptible in forms, but in which the creatures that create form are active (plant kingdom). Here life has come into the outside, it has become objective (B116, 25.10.1904), 6) The realm that becomes sensually perceptible in forms, but in which the form-creating beings and the beings that live out their souls are also active (animal kingdom). Here, the inner comes into the outer world to such an extent that consciousness and sensation have become objective. 7) The realm that becomes sensually perceptible in forms, but in which in addition the form-creating and the soul-living entities are still working and in which the spirit itself is formed in the form of thought within the world of meaning (human kingdom). On this seventh stage of life, consciousness and I can step completely into the outer world into objectivity. So there are seven nature kingdoms (evolutionary stages1 of life) of which three are elemental kingdoms, mineral, plant and animal kingdoms, and the human kingdom. Only the fourth, the mineral kingdom, becomes visible. There are planets which do not yet reach the 4th realm, these remain invisible. Today's cosmos is the cosmos of the mineral kingdom, and man in his normal development understands only the mineral kingdom. "Therefore, the number four is the number of the cosmos and creation" (B118, p. 177).
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