The Earth
THE SPIRITUAL EARTH
- Chapter 42 -
The impressions of matter on the soul and spirit
You may examine the animal and plant worlds, yea, even the mineral world, and you will everywhere find an independent intelligence, and also a compulsion. This intelligence is recognizable not only from its different character - a matter of particular importance to the psychologist - but also from the impre6sion which different things make upon the human mind. A human being has to be awake and intelligent in order to be sufficiently receptive so that impressions can be made upon the soul and spirit; and before this can happen, all intelligences have to be united alive in his soul.
Anything that makes any kind of impression on the human soul cannot be dead. But it must be intelligently alive in order to stimulate, to impress its equally alive intelligence specificum, and bring it to a corresponding representation which may be contemplated in the soul. This proves that nowhere in the physical world is there anything which is dead. Whatever a shortsighted human being calls "death" is only a transition from a less intelligent form to a higher one, where the intelligences are already united in greater numbers.
Stone clusters and rock formations give rise to living feelings in the human soul which are sometimes full of charm and sometimes full of enthusiasm and admiration. Is it possible that dead stones can call forth these living feelings? These stone formations came forth out of the almighty power of God in the same manner as the most lively cherub. How could it be possible that the eternal primordial Life of all Life created "dead" stones? When, however, the Creator has bound His ideas and thoughts in the phenomena of matter, life should exist within the stones; in other words, a large number of intelligences that find their equal in the living human soul. Any being or thing that emanates its intelligent and live energies into a human soul calls forth an echo in the intelligences of the human soul which have the same characteristics, and permits the being or thing to gain the right impression of the human attributes and their free intelligence.