The Earth

← The Earth · Contents The law of the division of the soul (24 March 1847) 1. It has already been shown to you in part, namely in the description of the mineral and plant kingdom, how an innumerable number of telluric specifics continually rise, seize and combine and arrange themselves according to the intervening…

← The Earth · Contents About Superstition (April 16, 1847) 1. A third kind of so-called visions is the most stupid superstitious assumption brought over from paganism, according to which certain quite natural phenomena are supposed to have some prophetic connection with a fact that is therefore supposed to happen in the future. I have…

← The Earth · Contents Primordial inhabitants of New Zealand, Central Africa and America from a spiritual point of view (May 14, 1847) Original content summary: Native inhabitants of New Zealand These continue to grow easily in the spirit world. Their just reverence for the Supreme Being. They soon accepted the redeeming doctrine of the…

← The Earth · Contents The inner structure of the Earth 1. If you look at an animal body of whatever kind, you will, without having studied further the anatomy of all animal bodies, quite easily understand and see that either the blood or the juices pass through all veins and other vessels in the…

← The Earth · Contents The effect of light on the air (29 January 1847) 1. In order to understand even more thoroughly that in the atmospheric air there is an innumerable quantity of basic air substances (or as the scholars of the world call them: propertya), one must be led to where one reaches…

← The Earth · Contents Mountains with infamous names 1. In a region of upper Carinthia, not far from the Drau River, there is a mountain called the High Staff. This mountain dominates with it's peak the Drau valley almost from the border of Tyrol to Klagenfurt, i.e. to the vicinity of this city; at…

← The Earth · Contents Satana’s soul (23 March 1847) 1. We have already touched upon the fact that a soul, in that it consists of innumerable substantial particles of intelligence – or to speak even more clearly – of innumerable miniature conceptual images, can likewise be divided again either into a complete dissolution or…

← The Earth · Contents About superstition – continued (17 April 1847) 1. Another kind of exceedingly ludicrous vision is that almost all people, but especially in the Roman Catholic religion, hold and believe in certain signs of good or bad luck, and one finds such foolishness from the highest circles down to the lowest…

← The Earth · Contents Dreams and their interpretation (14 April 1847) 1. By what and in what way will it be recognizable what I want to have understood by the previously announced secret noteworthy thing? Does this noteworthy thing have external signs? 2. It does not have such things, and if it does have…

← The Earth · Contents Primordial inhabitants of Australia (Aborigines) from a spiritual point of view (12 May 1847) Original content summary: The original inhabitants of Australia, the largest island. They are pure natural beings, they are usually peaceful, have no fear of death, nor of pain. Snake eaters. Abhorrence of clothed people. They are…