1108. So what do we understand by the "energy of instinct"? Indeed, in order to understand this energy correctly we must now dwell a little on the "living being" that we find here in the final zone, the "kingdom of bliss", of the old spiral. This being is not at all like any of the other beings we are otherwise accustomed to here on the physical plane. It does not correspond either to any of the known prehistoric animals, nor does it belong to any species or constitute any individual within the known "plant kingdom". As is evident from the above it is not a being from any physical plane of existence but finds itself in the last zone of its spiral. We have thus before us a being in which all the effects or experiences from its last spiral are concentrated as awake "memories" or constitute "awake day-consciousness". The energy that carries the day-consciousness in this being is thus the "energy of memory". We are situated, as will be remembered, in the part of the spiral cycle called the "kingdom of bliss". The being that we have here before us is thus a "being of bliss". "Memory" is the principal function in this being's consciousness. Since its day-conscious experiences are nothing but "memories", and these in turn can exist only as details in its "inner world", this being is thus not consciously concentrating on outer things at all. It experiences everything that occurs around it in the "outer world" as nothing but "night-consciousness". In this state it has no conscious dealings or any mutual correspondence with any other "living being". It lives entirely outside the "time" and "space" of the other beings and the "outer world". Its conscious "time" and "space" is nothing but the "past". It systematically relives its experiences from the present spiral and here creates a new form of "time" and "space", the details of which in the being's consciousness still have the "indications of time and of space" as it experienced these in the "outer world". This thus in turn means that such a being in the "kingdom of bliss" – quite independent of the current year in the "outer world" – in the most fortunate cases is able to experience "awake day-consciously" in the "now" "periods of time" and "events" that existed thousands, indeed millions, of years ago. But this experience limits itself to including only the details that were realistic "day-consciousness" for the being concerned during those previous regions of time. It cannot experience "new" details in these past periods of time, which of course have long since ceased or disappeared from the physical plane never to return again. We thus see that the "living being" here in this sixth section of the spiral cycle lives completely in its absolutely own "inner world". Here time, space, eternity, day and night, summer and winter, spring and autumn, light and darkness, evil and good, pain and suffering, happiness and joy have no longer anything to do with the phenomena that are occurring in the "now" around the being in the "outer world", since, as will be remembered, it is not at all conscious of this world or this "now". The above-mentioned detail or details that the being consciously experiences are, as previously stated, merely a "reliving" of details that have already been experienced. Here it could not possibly experience details or experiences that it had never had previously, apart from a very intensified feeling of happiness. In this zone it is thus totally cut off from being able to acquire "new knowledge". But, as we will see, this is not a shortcoming but is on the contrary ingenious and radiant perfection during this form of existence or this section of the experience of life. But, in brief, this entire form of existence consists thus of the being "reliving" its previous experiences. It is this form of experience in an almost latent state that we know here in awake physical existence as "memory" or the "experience of recollections".