The Earth

← The Earth · Contents Addiction to rank amongst arrogant humans (8 April 1847) 1. Something that is almost more annoying and harmful than the anger or the devil of anger in the human flesh is the craving for rank, which indeed goes hand in hand with anger; but it is nevertheless the basis of…

← The Earth · Contents Primordial inhabitants of Java and other small Asian islands from a spiritual point of view (May 5, 1847) Original content summary: The other small Asian islands. The Javanese, a tribe of it’s own; the interior (of Java) unhealthy by toxic exhalations. Their peculiar (Janus-like) God. Other local conditions. The valley…

← The Earth · Contents The spirits of the second region of the air (13 February 1847) 1. In the same way as in a human being, there is a transition from the purely spiritual into the spiritual, in the same way there is also a transition between the highest and the middle region, and…

← The Earth · Contents The composition of intelligence properties in living beings (8 March 1847) 1. When the metal iron is hammered, it becomes elastic. This elasticity is also a propertyum from above, and is identical with an orderly will-power which does not change from one day to the next. If this power is…

← The Earth · Contents Fighting anger (7 April 1847) 1. Since this anger-devil is such a dangerous creature when he is in possession of human flesh, and it is often necessary to let children die bodily, and not infrequently to kill entire generations in the flesh through plague and other devastating diseases, before it…

← The Earth · Contents The primordial inhabitants of Borneo and Guinea from a spiritual point of view (May 4, 1847) Original content summary: The original inhabitants of Borneo and Guinea, Chinese descendants. Characteristics of the same. Government, Religion. In the beyond, they are more accessible than Chinese. (General reflection on the insane and the…

← The Earth · Contents The general succession of living beings (22 January 1847) 1. These occurrences seem to happen in such a way that someone could believe that they are, in a way, collections of certain whirlwinds, which, however, then united in the air into some kind of ball and then fell down again…

← The Earth · Contents The activities of the spirits in the second region of the air (15 February 1847) 1. Here the question can be raised right at the beginning: Is the spirit being of this second region good or evil, and is it ascending or descending? 2. This question is just answered sufficiently…

← The Earth · Contents The Composition of Intelligence properties in living things (9 March 1847) 1. It is sometimes not unnecessary – in order to make what follows all the more vivid and comprehensible – to recall what has already been said; and so we also want to mention something about the different quantity-ratios…

← The Earth · Contents The Earth as a man and a woman 1. Sometimes each one of you will have perceived a feeling in yourself which pleases you exceedingly. The whole area had an extremely friendly appearance; what only fell into the eyes of the observer, refreshed him with multiple delight, the clouds in…