As the grades of life create themselves, which therefore got the life of existence by means of the soul; because the soul keeps on creating a new body, those bodies change colour, power and build, because the planet also has to experience her condensing contractions and which the universe helped her with.

(Gentleman in the hall): ‘Why is it that everything to do with spiritual things always adds up to the number seven?’

Sir, that has nothing to do with the number seven, but they are the subsequent grades of life for everything which exists.

The number seven has no earthly meaning, but people began to trace out something of space, of the earth, or of a house, or of a staircase, and a chair, a white loaf of bread, it does not matter, in parts.

And they are the ages of the thing.

And that is also in ...

You can also learn that at the bakers, sir.

Do you know that?

There are seven grades of evolution.

Before we begin it is already grass, it is also material.

Then we must go from the grass, we must go to the grain, that is also a part of it.

But it is first milk and then flour and then we bring it together, another grade again; and then something else comes, that says ssst, and then it goes into the oven, and then it starts to expand and finally you are in that and that grade and then you have a sandwich in your hands.

And it happens like that with the child which is born and a dog which runs.

For example, you can also have runners, have boxers.

In every grade, in every gift there are now transitions of feeling.

There are people here who have love; seven different grades of love.

You have art; seven grades of art.

There are painters who never learn it, never have to learn it: if they want to accept spiritual gifts and they want to be honest, they would be much better to go into the mines, or they fly, it does not matter, but they will never reach art in eternity, because thirty lives are needed in order to achieve that, because art is feeling.

And now you must be able to experience that art, be able to experience the paint, be able to experience the technique, you must want to experience the unity with art, that takes ten lives, twenty lives; for sciences and art, violin, piano.

Giving birth and creation; transitions.

If the child is in the mother during the first days, when the contact came ...

The fertilization takes place ...

If there were no transitions?

Did you ever see a seed in the ground which came out again in two seconds?

By means of this my life awakened and I got feeling as a soul!

I experienced that working and in this way many lives revealed themselves to me and to her who belongs to my life.

The pre-animal love awakened.”

People want to possess and when they have it they want something else and that is no good either.

People are killed for this trash which is now gold and silver, diamonds and pearls, all those precious things on earth which are only valuable for them.

That is what everyone wants to possess, but they should be able to discard them.

That is not possible, because they have not advanced that far so that they have to return many times.

Returning is a torment for them, but that torment comes, because they begin to sense what awaits them.

People do not want struggle and sorrow; they want to keep all these material things, to enjoy all this trash which we started to collect in prehistoric times.

They have created a condition that is not natural any more.

They drape themselves with decorations, they are well dressed, but they discarded their natural attunement.

They lost themselves in their beautiful and rich lives and they do things people in the jungle would never do.

That is instinct, nature and intellectual man has lost and defiled those laws of nature.

Is it that terrible when I say that the natural core has been lost?

That they adorn their bodies, but that the inner being spiritually starves to death?

One day all this end.

Then, we only collect mental treasures and acquire all those qualities forming our mental character which cannot be taken away from us.

One day they will die and enter life after death.

They also collect these things, that earthly trash, in hell; you have seen that, André, there too they adorn themselves with pearls and diamonds but this trash is as false as their spiritual lives.

‘If you understand me, it will be clear to you that inner life can receive more riches as it approaches the highest material degree.

People in the jungle have no earthly possessions as compared with the property of man in the large cities.

This is, as you feel, a mighty difference, which awakens inner life.

They eat meat, like those others, but no human flesh, they don’t eat that any more.

The soul experiences in all those degrees in accordance with the strength and activity of that organism.

Inner man performs all those acts and all those people do this in all these grades, because this is just the way it is, for those who possess this organism.

I now feel that all these beings live like the animal, Alcar.

I cannot express myself more clearly.’

Materially more advanced man, therefore, dominated the planet earth, but he did this by manslaughter and violence.

In this respect nothing has changed either in all those millions of years.

The human being in the jungle could not make those mistakes, because that human being still did not have that consciousness.

The higher the consciousness comes, the deeper the destruction becomes.

The tribes as grades of life live together here.

They have already closed themselves off to the other, lower grades of life, of which the highest, the seventh grade of life now has everything to say.

The power of the stronger human being is everything in here and those other grades of life have to accept that!

We see that the sixth and seventh grades of life took possession of the planet.

The human being from this society has now awakened.

This human being has created a world for himself, it does not matter what that world is like.

This human being lives in the cities and in the country.

They are now therefore millions of people who represent the seventh grade of life.

And those are also peoples, so races, who closed themselves off through the ages as a grade of life and gave themselves a name as a people.

That development also lasted thousands of ages, by means of which all those nationalities originated.

Here, they do not know of a God; there they do but they do not act accordingly, they only experience and they are heading for disaster with all their possessions.

In many respects these beings are ahead of them, because they are children of nature and give themselves as they are.

But there in the large cities, we see people in disguise, as no pre-animal-like being could, and they look down upon these beings.

You have more comfort.

(Gentleman in the hall): ‘Comfort.’

That is everything.

That can be seen even more by means of the inner life, then by means of the organism, after all, the soul as the personality now proves what her attunement of feeling is like for arts and sciences.

In the fourth degree we see the intellect, in the fifth, sixth and seventh degree we see the arch-instinct descend.

There are people on earth living in the seventh degree who are animal-like beings.

How do they live there?

They kill thousands of people.

We also see that in the sixth degree and it is no different in the fifth degree.

All those material and spiritual degrees are spread all over the earth and live to the full.

You can’t tell them apart.

Follow and feel this and tell me whether you understand the depth of inner life.

So who understands himself?

Who knows why he is on earth?

Who sees his slave in the other?

Who recognizes his former master in the beggar he meets?

That cannot be fathomed, as it lies hidden in the depth of the soul and that constitutes the human character.

Man who experiences this is, of course, unaware of this law; he does not even accept eternal life.

And all this lies behind death; and it is not until we accept life after death that we learn to understand all those spiritual laws.

But now it comes!

Those men sought another life.

There in that jungle they migrated further and met many lives.

They did not carry the wisdom of feeling, in order to take care of your own life, that consciousness, under their hearts, they completely lived it up.

The highest grade split itself with a lower one.

Where we came we begot children.

The seventh and highest grade shared itself with the fourth and third grade.

From that third and fourth grade of life children were born.

And those children continued this process.

What do we see: after millions of years this universal body weakened.

The actual primal source split up.

The Divine universal independence, which was calculated against weather and heat, cold and natural laws, lost the natural core as a result of the actual splitting, lost the universal attunement which God laid down on these lives for the own sort and grade of life.

People lost their resistance!

Men and women can no longer stand those enormous laws and succumb.

Impairments came into being, those exceedingly strong bodies can no longer stand the natural laws and look for clothing.

Before this destruction started this natural organism resisted every natural change.

Because the human body is like the waters, is like the condensed material, grown up on land, but has lost the own primal source as a result of the split with the lower grades of life and as a result of this we see the first illnesses come into being!”

‘Yes, we know all those events; not only those events and possibilities, but the history of all seven material degrees as well.

As a result, André, that magnificent material organism has weakened in all degrees; that’s why these inner disturbances, illnesses and other torments exist on earth.

Believe me when I say that man is to blame for his own sorrow and misery and for all his illnesses as well.

Man has defiled his own attunement.

That is not possible in the animal kingdom; an animal would not do that; that life acts, as I explained to you, in accordance with his natural attunement and cannot act differently.

But man has passions and through those passions he has destroyed his own attunement; this attunement therefore passed on into a different degree.

As a result the natural attunement weakened and an unnatural condition set in.

This happened millions of years ago and cannot be restored.’

‘So there are no people on earth having the pure natural material condition?’

‘No; as natural attunement, not one.’

‘Is that where all those illnesses come from?’

‘That’s why this natural material organism weakens and declines.

All the organs are there, have always been there, but the tissues, that million-process, have weakened.

The material organism in the attunement of the highest degree is a magnificent organism, and if this attunement had remained pure, all those illnesses we know now would not exist; that same organism would have more strength, and be more resistant, also against summer and winter because that organism has the same strength and activity as nature in which it lives and out of which it emanated.

‘The human race, all those seven degrees, have passed into thousands of degrees.