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A WORD ABOUT SENSIVITY PETER gave now the following explanation about the things that he obtained through his observation:
[GGJ.11_56,02] First he saw how the form was built by the soul, always with the purpose of the further development but not to only have the best possible pleasant house. It is about like when a traveler set a goal and tries now zealously to reach it but he always takes into account how much power he can give to his body here and there to reach his goal. The soul sets here also a goal, namely to reach a certain maturity which can however only be attained by means of the form. Therefore the accepted form suits with the goal and this has been chosen according to the kind of character.
[GGJ.11_56,03] From this can be concluded that already on the very lowest levels a self-consciousness is present, no matter how small it is, otherwise a spiritual development is not possible. But on the lowest levels there is no physical ability to feel. This is only the result of a more developed soul’s life and begins on the border line of those creatures that possess a circulation of juices.
[GGJ.11_56,04] Peter: “So for instance plants have an ability to feel, although in a low degree, but this is already much higher on the lowest levels of the animal world.
[GGJ.11_56,05] The circulation of juices is a striving to fill the organism with life from a middle point and to develop a self-consciousness because this concentric construction supposes a life’s kernel which in the case of man can be found in his heart. Plants have still no heart organ but in their inner marrow they have a life’s principle which manifests itself by striving to feed and maintain the tree or the plant, and this through a suitable circulation of juices in an organism of extremely fine tubes coming into motion in spring and the autumn.
[GGJ.11_56,06] However, the circulation always needs an activator in the form of nerves which are still very coarse with plants, but with animals they become finer all the time. These nerves have always in common that they are activating transmitters of outer and inner impulses, protecting themselves against harmful impulses by suitable organs and surrender to the influence of those that are useful. That is why a flower opens and closes its calyx, and that is why an animal runs away or allows a beneficial influence.
[GGJ.11_56,07] So it seems without doubt to me that everything that is created receives only the ability to feel after the activity of the soul has been developed enough to bring at the same time to awareness the desire for further development. And this desire is the driving love that the Lord has given as a soft urging means to everyone and by which the purpose to transform the universe will be reached – without force but only by one’s own free decision to walk also on the road of completion. And this driving force is the Spirit from God that can then become alive in man after having accepted the form, standing then before God as a conqueror who broke through the outer form and let it as it were disappear in himself.”