1702. According to the above the mineral kingdom is thus the dormitory of the spiral cycle.Here all wakingly day-conscious life has been silenced.It has withdrawn to the inner world of the living beings or I's, that is to say to their world of memory.They have no external individual or personal organisms or bodies in the outer world.Here – viewed from this outer world, from spiritual planes of existence or spheres of experience as well as physical ones – these beings will be regarded as being "asleep".They are thus awake only in their memories.These constitute their entire sphere of experience.But since the experiences are "gold copies", and the reliving of them gives the being an ecstatic experience of bliss, and ecstasy is in turn an extreme feeling of well-being, it can be only through this overabundant or superfluous energy of bliss that the being regains the energy to incarnate in physical matter.All movements or energy processes in mineral matter are surplus energy from the kingdom of bliss.The mineral kingdom is thus in reality the outer manifestation or expression of the kingdom of bliss.But, as already mentioned, the beings here are not conscious of this outer world of theirs.The transfer of the surplus energy from the state of ecstasy to outer physical matter therefore takes place automatically.The beings are thus – when viewed from the outer world – to be regarded as being in a deep sleep.And it is in this "deep sleep" that we find "Adam" when the "creation of Eve" was to take place.In the ultimate analysis he was a being in his inner world.He had long since outgrown the higher spiritual worlds, that is to say the "kingdom of wisdom" and the "divine world", and had therefore no longer any organism for experiencing the outer world, and was now entirely in his own inner world.His wakingly day-conscious life consisted of the re-experiencing of his past in the form of gold copies or glorified memories.Access to being wakingly day-conscious in the outer world could be regained only through the "eating of the tree of knowledge", an eating that thus could not occur in the kingdom of bliss or the "paradise" in which he was situated, an eating that could not be revealed through unconscious matter.Here "living" matter had to be created.The spirit had to incarnate in dead matter, thereby giving it life.Adam had therefore no choice.He had to leave the "paradise" that he lived in.But in the absolute sense it was not a "sin" or "Fall", but only a divine blessing, a divine arrangement that was connected to Adam's desire or hunger for the outer world.It was at this point in time and in this situation of Adam's that God said: "It is not good that the man should be alone".
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