70 ROSICRUCIANCOSMO-CONCEPTION
their human stage. The present mammalia, which have in
their animal stage attained to the possession of warm, red
blood, and are therefore capable of experiencing desire and
emotion to some extent will, in the Jupiter Period, be a purer
and better type of humanity than we are now, while from
among our present humanity there will be some, even in the
Jupiter Period, who will be openly and avowedly wicked.
Moreover, they will not then be able to conceal their
passions as is now possible, but will be unabashed about
their evil doing.
In the light of this exposition of the connection between
the liver and the life of the organism, it is noteworthy that in
several European languages (English, German, and the
Scandinavian tongues) the same word signifies the organ of
the body (the liver) and also “one who lives.”
When we turn our attention to the four kingdoms in their
relation to the World of Thought we find that minerals,
plants and animals lack a vehicle correlating them to that
World. Yet we know some animals think, but they are the
highest domesticated animals which have come into close
touch with man for generations and have thus developed a
faculty not possessed by other animals, which have not had
that advantage. This is on the same principle that a highly
charged wire will “induce” a weaker current of electricity in
a wire brou ght clos e to it; or that a man of strong morals will
arouse a like tendency in a weaker nature, while one morally
weak will be overthrown if brought within the influence of
evil characters. All we do, say, or are, reflects itself in our
surroundings. This is why the highest domestic animals
think. They are the highest of their kind, almost on the point
of individualization, and man's thought vibrations have
“induced” in them a similar activity of a lower order. With