Four kingdoms of nature

The current planetary stage of evolution called Earth has seven kingdoms of which we know four physical kingdoms: mineral, plant, animal kingdoms besides Man or the human being. The three other kingdoms are called the Elementary kingdoms that provide the formative forces working on the Earth's kingdoms - see also Golden Chain.

Man owes his ascent to the other kingdoms of nature, and will redeem them in the future, see Man and nature's kingdoms in evolution.

Inspirational quotes

John of Salisbury, in Metalogicon (Book 1, Ch 16)

Nature is rich and beautiful, and provides human indigence with her untold wealth ... with the result that the properties of things overflow into words.

Illustrations

Schema FMC00.518 illustrates the consciousness of the four kingdoms of nature at different planes of consciousness.

Only Man has individualized Human 'I' consciousness as he was and is in the process of detaching himself from the various granular levels of the group souls of humanity through the process of individuation and Development of the I.

In the animal kingdom, a collective of animals part of a certain species have their group soul on the astral plane, the working group of the animal group soul intelligence can be seen for example in flocks of birds and herds.

The plant kingdom has its group soul on the lower spirit plane. The astral body of the Earth forms the common astral body for the whole plant kingdom, the I of the plant is in the center of the Earth. The astral world does not penetrate the individual plant but merely touches it through the 'kiss of the Sun', which is the origin of the blossom causing the appearance of the flower.

The mineral kingdom is frozen and chaste and has the group soul in the higher spirit world.

FMC00.147 provides an overview to contemplate how the kingdoms of nature on Earth originate in previous evolutionary stages.

Schema FMC00.149: gives a tabular synthesis showing the development of the Spectrum of elements and ethers and the development of our current Four kingdoms of nature as well as Man's developing Condition of Consciousness, see also Schema FMC00.583 on Man and nature's kingdoms in evolution

It shows how the plant and animal kingdoms evolved from the planetary stages of evolution: part of the development lagged behind and was not able to develop the next structural bodily principles, such as the astral on Old Moon, and the human 'I' on Earth.

Note: this schema has a Schema Commentary page, right click the schema number hyperlink to open in a new tab window.

gives a tabular synthesis showing the development of the Spectrum of elements and ethers and the development of our current Four kingdoms of nature as well as Man's developing Condition of Consciousness, see also Schema FMC00.583 on Man and nature's kingdoms in evolution It shows how the plant and animal kingdoms evolved from the planetary stages of evolution: part of the development lagged behind and was not able to develop the next structural bodily principles, such as the astral on Old Moon, and the human 'I' on Earth. Note: this schema has a Schema Commentary page, right click the schema number hyperlink to open in a new tab window.

Schema FMC00.142B lifts out one aspect from Schema FMC00.142, graphically depicting the origin of nature's kingdoms as offsprings of the spiritual hierarchies in previous evolutionary stages.

Lecture coverage and references

Paracelsus

.. writes (see 'The Hermetic and Alchemical Writings of Paracelsus', Book IV pg 135) that all kingdoms on Earth are spiritual, and actually all realities are spiritual in nature.

There is nothing corporeal but has latent within itself a spirit and life, which, as just now said,is none other than a spiritual thing.
But not only that lives which moves and acts, as men, animals, worms in the earth, birds under the sky, fishes in the sea, but also all corporeal and substantial things.
For here we should know that God, at the beginning of the creation of all things, creates no body whatever without its own spirit, which spirit it contains after an occult manner within itself. For what is the body without the spirit? Absolutely nothing.

Discussion

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References and further reading

Raoul Heinrich Francé (1874-1943)
- Bios. Die Gesetze der Welt. (Grundlagen einer objektiven Philosophie IV-V. Teil) (1921)
- Das Leben im Boden. Das Edaphon (1995, a reprint of 'Das Edaphon - Untersuchungen zur Oekologie der bodenbewohnenden Mikroorganismen (1913) and 'Das Leben im Ackerboden' (1922))
- see also: Plant kingdom#More
John Blackwood (1940-2015): Geometry in nature' (explaining the morphology of the natural world through projective geometry) (2012)