Excerpts

 

Pg. 41-42

Because man has interfered and is still interfering in the course of life on Earth and of its life forms according to his own ideas, and has therefore changed and is still changing many things, I would like to … ask a serious question … with which I want to stimulate an examination into the given facts:
How do humans live on this Earth?
How do many people act toward animals, the second neighbors, toward plants and the mineral world?
Are humans with and for the animal world and for nature and the mineral kingdoms—or are they against them?
Are you one with all the substances of the Earth and with all forms of life?
Do you — do many of your fellowmen — have access to the animal, plant and mineral worlds?

Pg. 68:

The person who is concerned for his own well-being has dissociated himself from others. He is his own closest neighbor. His brother is “the other one,” whom he observes only from without. The person has created his own plot, his house, his land and property, which he watches over and defends. In a broader sense, the world of animals also took on this human behavior. Dogs, cats and other life forms mark their so-called territory with their particular odors. In a figurative sense, man, too, marked and marks his territory with his human ego-vibration, which can also be called his odor...

The behavior of the animals in the wild cannot be taken as a characteristic criterion for their true, original nature. The behavior patterns of the animals in the wild are also determined by what they have absorbed in their part-souls—and possibly also by the aura of the country, the atmospheric pictures of the country and by the magnets created by thought and leadership patterns that are still effective in the countries where the animals live.

What a person emits is also absorbed by the animals. Since no energy is lost, whatever has been radiated by a person will eventually find expression, even if it is only in later generations, in the animal world.
And so, one should not assume that the behavior of the second neighbors out in the open spaces is their true nature and that it corresponds to their particular species and breed. A great deal of what seems to determine the breed and species was transmitted to them by human beings.
 

Chapter 16: The scent-picture

 

Communication between a person and his animal brother or sister

 

The second neighbor radiates the noble, the fine and the good, all according to its spiritual state of consciousness. It wants to maintain the loyalty and connection with people and the cosmic forces.

 

Just as a person treats his fellow man, so does he treat his second neighbor and all of nature. The second neighbor perceives you, the person. He sees, hears and smells you, thus perceiving the total impression, which consists of your feeling, thinking, speaking and acting. The total impression is a so-called scent-picture, which the second neighbor retains and enlarges upon, again and again, whenever it meets you anew.

 

A small qualification must be made with those second neighbors that are still guided by the creation-force via the collectives, which do not yet have a particle composite, or a part-soul. These life forms do not yet have the sensitive, fine and pronounced sensing capacity that a creation-child with a more developed part-soul has. Nevertheless, they sense and feel a person’s radiation and his intentions, even if not yet in great detail.

 

The second neighbors that still live in the composite of a collective are still more withdrawn in themselves. They do not yet have the direct relationship to man, to his reactions and his behavior. They may orient themselves to a person’s spiritual radiation, however, they do not yet react externally, or they do so only under certain conditions. On the other hand, the more developed part-souls that have higher degrees of consciousness feel people’s sensations and thoughts and their intentions in a very subtle way.

 

Dear human brothers and sisters, the life forms that are in the process of evolution have spirit bodies in the eternal Being; in the earthly existence they, like people, are enveloped by a coarse-material body. This body can be manipulated by people via thought-energies and via the genes. As you have already read, in order to make it easier for my human brothers and sisters to understand, I call the further developed spiritual life forms part-souls.

 

Since in those second neighbors with part-souls the basic forces of Will or of Wisdom come to unfold more and more, they react, all according to their state of consciousness, directly or indirectly to their surroundings as well as to people. The larger the particle composite of the part-soul is—that is, the spiritual body—the higher is the state of consciousness of the animal and the greater is the spectrum of its communication possibilities and the further its light of consciousness shines.

 

These part-souls are already consciously in communication with the spirit beings, and they also want to attain a corresponding communication with human beings, with their spiritually fully developed brothers and sisters.

 

If people, the big brothers and big sisters, encounter the still developing brothers and sisters of creation with much understanding and good will, then the second neighbors approach them accordingly, as people whom they respect as their big, fully developed brothers and sisters.

 

In the positive, fully developed human being who is of good will toward them, the second neighbors sense the wisdom of the Creator-God and serve them, according to their state of consciousness. Then people and animal brothers and sisters become friends who understand one another despite their different degrees of maturity. They can rely on each other and are not forsaken. They have a positive communication with each other. Even when they are externally separated for hours or days, they are linked by a feeling of belonging together. This feeling of unity conveys to people in particular the all-encompassing unity of all Being in God.

 

The second neighbors sense and scent from the sound of the words the present state of their big brother or their big sister. They also react accordingly. They are very sensitive in relation to the disharmony, to the feelings, peculiarities and habits of people.
 

A person becomes a good observer of his second neighbor when he doesn’t live concerned only with himself, but respects in everything the life in God. Such people sense the inner life, the spark of creation, God, in all life forms, no matter how they present themselves at the earthly level. Furthermore, they will respect and cherish all Being more and more. They are true explorers who grasp in full detail the stirrings and movements of the second neighbors and of the plant world and thus learn very gradually the language of the second neighbors and of the plants, and, in a broader sense, also the language of the stones. Because by feeling into the life form, the cosmic communication, the language of the All, builds up in the person.

 

The second neighbors with well-developed part-souls have a good sense of discernment. They also explore and learn the language of human beings and observe their stirrings. From the sound of their voice, from their choice of words, from the way these are spoken—whether with harshness or kindness, with sadness, despair or with confidence and hope, with selflessness or egocentricity—from this they hear how the person is feeling, whether he is balanced or changeable, whether his nature is sensitive and stable or unpredictable. What they hear and see, they scent at the same time. They scent the smell of the words as well as of the thoughts. For as a person feels, thinks, speaks and acts, that is how he smells. Even tones convey their scents.