Dear Rawn, your elaborations about the nature of the mental & astral bodies of Animals, Plants & Objects are very helpful in understanding many important things about our matter. But there still is one kingdom missing: the mineral (and metallic) kingdom in special. This part of our matter cannot be classyfied as being only a part of "objects" in general. >From my point of view - as you know an alchemical one - one can find the purest expressions of mental and astral energies in minerals and metals. Perhaps that was the deaper reason why true alchemy primarily was concentrated on the so called mineral kingdom more than on the plant or animal kingdom, human himself included. The alchemists always said that the strongest energies are enclosed in the mineral kingdom. Who learns to release these energies from this kingdom will have much more energy at his disposal than he ever can concentrate in products derived from plants or animals. But the big problem is to find the method to "ferment" minerals and metals in a way, that the hidden inner fire of matter really can break down the dark imprisonment of the physical bodies of minerals and metals, i.e. the material cage in which the inner fire of nature is bound and hidden. I would be very interested in hearing from you some illuminating thoughts about this kingdom concerning its mental and astral qualities. Kind regards Beat Krummenacher [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]