 soul-life is infiltrated with spirit.
If we want to call the human being who was not yet mind-endowed a human
being and we want to do this for the sake of the shortness of time ,
we must say that his soul-life was vague that it was a more dreamy,
pictorial soul-life. One can understand the soul-life of the human being
at that time only if one traces it back one period more. In the time
of which I have spoken now the human being is able to receive external
body impressions, to perceive the surroundings. This perception developed
only slowly and gradually.
If we trace back the Lemurians
still farther, we find that the human ancestors have sensation already,
indeed, that the external objects make impressions on them but that
they could not connect ideas with these external percepts. If you imagine
a soul-life like that of the dream, then you have something similar.
However, it is not completely the same. For the pictorial ideas which
surged up and down in the soul at that time were much clearer, much
more original and more elementary, much more saturated than the confused
dream pictures of the present-day average person are. Above all, these
pictures in the human soul were dependent in certain way on that which
took place around the human being. At that time, the human being was
not yet able to associate a colour with an external object, he could
not yet see the things coloured. He could not see that an object is
green or red; the colour idea did not yet combine with the object. Nevertheless,
colours still surged in the human soul. These colours had some resemblance
to that which the clairvoyant knows if he develops certain capacities
in himself. The clairvoyant sees not only the external physical, but
also the feelings and instincts in the form of an aura. The physical
human being is only one part of the human being. The physical human
being is embedded like in a cloud in which all sorts of formations surge
up and down. Only someone can see them who has the gift of clairvoyance
in our theosophical sense not in the sense of spiritism. I pass some
remarks about the acquisition of such capacities next time when I speak
about the great initiates of the world. Any real initiation can be connected
only with the gift of clairvoyance. The capacities of the great initiates
originated from the gift of clairvoyance.
Today you have to be an
absolutely reasonable person, before you become a clairvoyant. You must
be able to think logically and clearly. Somebody who would attain the
gift of clairvoyance without having developed the gift of the reasonable,
clear thinking would receive a bad gift. He would be led to a world
of fancies rather than to a higher spiritual world. There he would miss
any control and would face it like the chaotic dream world. Not before
you get into the habit of logical, clear, reasonable thinking, so that
you walk through the spiritual things as the reasonable human being
walks through tables and chairs, so that it is no longer anything special,
you can understand that the gift of clairvoyance guides one into the
riddle of the world. All occult schools have as a precondition that
the human being is a quite reasonable, maybe a somewhat sober human
being, so that he is the opposite of a daydreamer. Hence, we say that
clairvoyance, the cognition of the astral auric world, is connected
with the development of our spiritual abilities.
The view of the human being,
as I have described it, was similar in the pre-Lemurian time. But it
was not pervaded with consciousness. Only a dim consciousness existed
in the human being. Indeed, at that time on this level he already felt
what was hot and cold; he had a sense of touch and could perceive certain
differences of density. He also had the gift of hearing. The sense of
hearing is one of the oldest senses which humanity developed. But he
did not yet have the sense of seeing. This still was, so to speak, an
internal one. The colours lived as pictures in the human soul. If he
came, for example, to a region which was colder than that he came from
then in his soul a colour pictu