Countless beings have to fight with their outer form so that they reach the maturity the being needs for the last earthly path of life in the flesh. The fight with the respective outer form earns it spiritual progress, without the fight the being would always remain on the same level. Overcoming the form is therefore a victory over it, and every victory increases strength. In this case the spiritual unites with the spiritual; thus an increase of spiritual substance takes place, which now again receives a new shell in order to continue the course of development. Every such reshaping is at the same time a gathering of spiritual substances that dwell unbound in the atmosphere and long for the form again for the final liberation. The latter have become free through the violent destruction of solid form and now need a new place to mature further. And in most cases such freed beings return to the plant world, provided they have already reached a certain degree of maturity by carrying out a serving activity in their previous form, otherwise they are allowed to revitalize a form that is somehow beneficial to humanity. The more willing the being is to carry out a serving activity, the less time it takes for the new outer form to be defeated again, and the faster the course through plant regions goes, for there the outer form can already be changed in a very short time, and it becomes less and less burdensome for the being. But some natural disasters always have to release the spiritual for the first time, and again the spiritual has to be in a certain state of maturity that the earth life change can now start through the living creation and this is so to speak the last course which the entities have to cover so that they become completely free of every outer form. And only then can the being overcome the obstacles of its own free will and reach ascent through constant struggle....
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