THE THREE WORLDS
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qualities of color and light, so are the surroundings of the person who learns to use his SPIRITUAL eye seen to be filled with a new world, the world of LIVING thoughts or SPIRIT BEINGS. There are to be seen in this world, first, the SPIRITUAL ARCHETYPES of all things and beings which are present in the physical and in the soul world. Imagine the picture of a painter existing in the mind before it is painted . This gives an analogy to what is meant by the expression ARCHETYPE. It does not concern us here that the painter has perhaps not had such an Archetype in his mind before he paints, and that it only gradually develops and becomes complete during the practical work . In the real "World of Spirit" there are such Archetypes for all things, and the physical things and beings are COPIES of these Archetypes . When any person who trusts only his outer senses denies this archetypal world, and holds Archetypes to be merely abstractions which the intellect, by comparing the objects of the senses, arrives at, it is quite to be understood ; for such a one simply cannot see in this higher world ; he