COSMOLOGY 6l 



which his soul was born, and animals are the mirrors of 

 man. Whatever animal elements exist in the world 

 exist in the soul of man, and therefore the character 

 of one man may resemble that of a fox, a dog, a 

 snake, a parrot, &c. Man need not, therefore, be surprised 

 that animals have animal instincts that are so much like 

 his own ; it might rather be surprising for the animals 

 to see that their son (animal man) resembles them so 

 closely. Animals follow their animal instincts, and in 

 doing so they act as nobly and stand as high in Nature 

 as their position in it permits them, and they do not 

 sink thereby below that position ; it is only animal man 

 who sinks below the brute. Animals love and hate 

 each other according to the attraction or repulsion of 

 their animal elements : the dog loves the dog and hates 

 the cat, and men and women are attracted to each 

 other by their animal instincts, and love their young 

 ones for the same reason as the animals love theirs ; but 

 such a love is animal love — it has its purposes and 

 its rewards, but it dies when the animal elements die. 

 Man is derived from the dog, and not the dog from the 

 man. Therefore a man may act like a dog, but a dog can- 

 not act like a man. Man may learn from the animals, for 

 they are his parents ; but the animals can learn nothing 

 useful to them from man. The spider makes a better 

 web than man, and the bee builds a more artistic house. 

 He may learn how to run, from the horse ; to swim, from 

 the fish ; and to fly, from the eagle. The animal world 

 is taught by Nature, and it is divided into many classes 

 and species, so that it may learn all the natural arts. 

 Each species has forms that differ from those of another 

 species, so that it may learn that art for which it is 

 adapted by Nature ; but man, as a whole, has only one 

 kind of form, and is not divided, and therefore the 

 animal soul of man is not divided, but all the animal 

 elements are combined in it, the reason of man selecting 

 what it likes. 



