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3. Nature-Spirits of all Kinds. So many and so varied are the subdivisions of this class that to do them anything like justice one would need to devote a separate treatise to this subject alone. Some characteristics, however, they all have in common, and it will be sufficient here to try to give some idea of those.
To begin with, we have to realize that we are here dealing with entities jvhich differ radically from all that we have hitherto considered. Though we may rightly classify the elemental essence and thfe animal astral bodies as nonhuman, the moilbdic essence which manifests itself through them wity, nevertheless, in the fulness of time,evolve to the level of manifesting itself through some future humanity comparable to our ^n, and if we were able to look back through countless ages on our own evolution in previous world-cycles, we should find that that which is now ourselves has passed on its upward path through similar stages. ’ i
That, however, is rtot the case with the vast kingdom of nature-spirits ; they neither have been, nor ever will be, members of a humanity such as ours ; their line of evolution is entirely different, and their only connection with us consists in our temporary occupancy of the same 'planet. Of course since