The Earth

← The Earth · Contents The dwelling and bliss of the pure spirits (11 February 1847) 1. In the bringing back, and indeed in the perfect bringing back, lies precisely the former perfect, most perfect and all-perfect degree of blessedness; but it is not demanded or required of the spirit with regard to the bringing…

← The Earth · Contents Minerals, plant, and animals (6 March 1847) 1. The plant kingdom, about the origin of which we have just spoken, is in a certain way the transition point from the mineral and the ether, which descends from the celestial bodies into the animal kingdom. 2. In the very foundation of…

← The Earth · Contents The nature and consequences of anger (6 April 1847) 1. Since we have already spoken about possession in our previous memorials, we want to continue in this one, too, and reveal a very dangerous kind of possession in this very memorandum. What will it consist of? 2. This consists in…

← The Earth · Contents The Japanese from a spiritual point of view (May 8, 1847) 1. In the first place the Brahmines, the Chinese, and our high Tibetan inhabitants come as religious relatives of the Japanese, who, as they are now, also descended from Central Asia. 2. They are, regarding religion, a mixture; they…

← The Earth · Contents The male-female procreation of the Earth (20 January 1847) 1. From this procreation, all mineral beings, as well as the plants and the animal world take their material origin. The earth, considered as man and woman in one, begets here and also gives birth in the most manifold ways, namely…

← The Earth · Contents The kidneys of the Earth (18 January 1847) 1. After the liver, the kidney comes into consideration; this part of the viscera is in three respects a very noteworthy tool of life in the animal organism; because it has three essential and exceedingly important purposes, without which the animal life…

← The Earth · Contents The spirits of the uppermost region of the air 1. Let us first turn to the uppermost region of the air and see what spiritual beings are at home there and how they rule and reign. 2. In this region there are already purely perfect spirits, and all were formerly…

← The Earth · Contents Guardian spirits in the kingdom of nature (5 March 1847) 1. You know how at certain times gardeners and farmers scatter seeds in the soil, and that soon after, each seed scattered in the soil begins to swell, finally bursts open at the place where the germ is located, and…

← The Earth · Contents The devil of play and the rearing of children (1 April 1847) 1. Another kind of people, which is usually a great blunder in education, has a special inclination to all kinds of playfulness from their youth; they cannot spend their time in any other way than merely dallying and…

← The Earth · Contents The Tibetans from a spiritual point of view (May 1, 1847) Original Content summary: In Asia's Middle, high Tibet, a people still lives with the ancient patriarchal constitution. Their religious basis is the unclouded Sanskrit (Holy Scripture of primitive time) with the Zenda vesta (i.e., the sacred visions containing wars…