Daily Meditation: Friday, January 18, 2013

Animals - in which evolved souls undergo a period of training

01/18/2013

When naturalists study an animal, they examine the details of its anatomy and physiology and take note of all the characteristics of its way of living and behaving. Then they think they really know it. Well, they don’t. To really know animals, you have to be able to enter into them. You will say, ‘But that’s absurd, and anyway it’s impossible!’ No, it is neither absurd nor impossible. I am not saying you have to do it, only that you cannot truly know a creature unless you can enter into it and inhabit it, at least for a time. And so, in order to gain access to even higher degrees of evolution, human souls, or even angelic souls, undergo special tests requiring them to spend some time in the body of an animal. Why do some nations still consider some animals sacred and even worship them? Because they know that animals can be inhabited by spirits superior to those of humans.