72 ROSICRUCIANCOSMO-CONCEPTION
described if we devote our attention to the description of one
of each species; while there are as many species among
human beings as there are individuals. Each individual
person is a “species,” a law unto hims elf, altoget her separate
and apart from any other individual, as different from his
fellow men as one species in the lower kingdom is from
another. We may write the biography of a man, but an
animal can have no biography. This is because there is in
each man an individual,indwelling spirit which dictates the
thoughts and actions of each individual human being; while
there is one “group-spirit”common to all the different
animals or plants of the same species. The group-spirit
works on them allfrom the outside. The tiger which roams
in the wilds of the Indian jungle and the tiger penned up in
the cage of a menagerie are both expressions of the same
group-spirit. It influences both alike from the Desire World,
distance being almost annihilated in the inner Worlds.
The group-spirits of the three lower kingdoms are
variously located in the higher Worlds, as we shall see when
we investigate the consciousness of the different kingdoms;
but to properly comprehend the positions of these group-
spirits in t he inner Worlds it is necessary to rememb er and to
clearly understand what has been said about all the forms
that are in the visible world having crystallized from models
and ideas in the inner Worlds, as illustrated by t he architect's
house and the inventor's machine. As the juices of the soft
body of the snail crystallize into the hard shell which it
carries upon its back, so the Spirits in the higher Worlds
have, in a similar manner, crystallized out from themselves
the dense, material bodies of the different kingdoms.
Thus the so-called “higher” bodies, although so fine and
cloudy as to be invisible, are not by any means “emanations”