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Chapter 28
The reciprocal mental copies of the spiritual and the physical worlds
The being's spiritual structure and thinking are not accessible to its physical senses. These two phenomena could therefore be neither seen nor observed on the physical plane if the being were not equipped with a physical organism with which it could give its thinking form in purely physical matter, thereby making its formation of images visible to physical senses. The physical organism is thus in itself only an extension organ for the creation of mental images. When we see buildings, houses, machines, tools, means of transport and so on, they constitute, as I have mentioned previously, only copies of their originator's inner mental images produced in physical matter. If they did not exist first in this way, their appearance on the physical plane would have been an absolute impossibility. Through the physical organism the living beings thus acquire the ability to copy in physical matter their mental images that appear on the spiritual plane. It is thereby established as fact that the details of the physical world are out-and-out copies of the spiritual world's details, image formations, shapes, colours and sounds. But as the living being, through its physical organism, can also sense the mental constructions and image formations of its fellow beings copied or revealed in physical matter, these thus also become mental images in the consciousness of this being. Through this, the spiritual world to a certain degree will also come to consist of copies of created physical phenomena or mental constructions experienced through physical sensory perception.


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