Table of Contents

Introduction by Paul King – I. The Elementary Kingdoms, 1. The elementary kingdoms as time periods and as realms
of beings, 2. The Three Worlds and the Spirit World in particular, 2.1 F The Three Worlds, 2.2 The World of Spirits, 3. The elementary kingdoms as form-creating thought-seed beings and as the shaping forces of the kingdoms of nature, 4. The entrance of the elementary kingdoms into earth evolution and how they appear to clairvoyant vision, 5. The elementary kingdoms' formative forces as divine sacrifice, 6. The elementary kingdoms as the life kernels of the kingdoms of nature, Life Kernels, The life kernels' unfolding of being through group egos, Working-together of elementary kingdoms and
the group egos, The elementary kingdoms and the states of matter, 7. Substances in the subtle `garments' of the life kernel,
7.1 The primordial substance and its forms of densification, 7.2 Substances as living beings, 8. The elementary kingdoms and the beings of the elemental world, 9. Influence of the elementary kingdoms on sleeping human beings, 10. The elementary kingdoms as hidden predisposition in the human members-of-being, 10.1 The relation of the elementary kingdoms to the
lower human members-of-being and to the third hierarchy, 10.2 The future development of the higher members-of-being – 11. The Shaping of the Human Members-of-Being by the Elementary Kingdoms, 11.1 The Creation of the lower members-of-being, 11.2 Laying down the rudiments of the higher members of the human being, 12. The passage of the earth through the elementary kingdoms and the Stages of Form – II. The Elemental World – 1. The elemental world as the world of etheric forces, 2. Attributes of the elemental world, 3. The structuring of the ethers in the earth's physical Stage of Form – III. The Spiritual Organism of the earth-Planetary Spirit (a fragment) – Appendix, Overview of Stages of Evolution, Regions of the Spirit World – Bibliography – Further Reading

About the Author

OSKAR LAMBERT KÜRTEN PhD was born in Anleur, Belgium, in 1886. He lost his hearing during his student years, becoming almost completely deaf. Despite this, he held a senior position in the Berlin State Statistical Office for over 50 years. Kürten developed an interest in spiritual world-views and had an inner experience that anthroposophy was his personal path. He lived for and out of anthroposophy, especially Rudolf Steiner’s Christ impulse, publishing three books on the theme. He died in Berlin in 1973.