1588. This inner world thus consists solely of the individual's memories of its entire passage through the spiral cycle, from its first permeation of the mineral kingdom to its culmination in the divine world, which is the ultimate experience of life. Its inner world thus consists, as previously mentioned, solely of its copies from this entire passage. It has here the opportunity to be in a world where its own I is the only life-giving force in all things, whether it be in the mineral, vegetable and animal phenomena of this inner world or it be in its ray-formed or spiritual regions and currents. All the living beings occurring here – crystals, plants, animals and human beings, indeed the oceans and continents, highlands and lowlands, forests and planes of this entire inner world, its seasons, winters and summers, days and nights, its Earth and sky, its planets, stars and cities of suns and so on – live and breathe and travel around in their paths and cycles with the being's own I as its sole, ultimate, life-giving origin and foundation. Every "kingdom of bliss" is a living being's absolutely private world. In it there is no living force whatsoever except the I's experiences, its sorrows, joys, unhappiness and happiness, which have been experienced in the outer world and transformed into radiant, all-enthralling "gold copies". The "kingdom of bliss" is an epoch of experience in a "gold copy" of the entire universe experienced in the spiral cycle. Since the living being, as previously mentioned, in this "gold copy" of the universe or cosmos is the supreme, life-giving factor behind all time and space, and behind all movement, it is here in a situation that is so similar to the identity of the Godhead in the outer universe that this situation can be expressed as the "being in God's image". In the "kingdom of bliss" we thus see the complete fulfilment of the Godhead's purpose with regard to "Adam" and "Eve", which He foreshadowed when He said: "Let us make a human being in our image after our likeness". While it is true that this creation reaches perfection in the "divine world", and here gives the being an absolutely complete experience of sovereignty, the experience of sovereignty in the "kingdom of bliss" is felt to an even greater or stronger degree. This is due to the fact that the being's experience in the outer world must always be a reaction between the meeting of its own energies and the energies of the outer world, which is of course not the case in the inner world or the "kingdom of bliss". Here all manifestations and creations are not a reaction of a meeting between the materials of the outer world and the inner world, but merely a repetition of phenomena once created or experienced in the outer world. What the being or the individual has never experienced in the five kingdoms of the outer world cannot possibly be experienced in the "kingdom of bliss". Everything that thus happens here is a journey through the world of "memories". But it is precisely this situation that makes this inner world a fantastic magical world, a fairy tale of fairy tales. Instead of, as in the outer world, having always to experience life as a reaction between its own forces and foreign forces, the experience in the "kingdom of bliss" is not merely an experience of all memories in a glorified, superterrestrial or heavenly light, but the individual is able to form these memories into "new inner creations" of fantastic grace and charm that give it feelings of ecstasy.
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