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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 33-
ing a spiritual body composed of many separate animal
spirits. The group spirit itself cannot function in the
Physical World, but it evolves by sending the different
animal spirits into a form of body which it creates, and
which then forms a species or tribe of animals, and the
group spirit guides all these animal bodies by means of
suggestions which we call instinct. When the body of an
animal dies, the animal spirit has unconsciously derived a
certain experience from functioning in that vehicle, and
after a time it is reabsorbed into the spiritual bod} r of the
group spirit, where it remains for some time while the group
spirit assimilates the experience gathered by that separate
animal spirit. Thus in time the group spirit grows and
evolves. So do the animal spirits which are its wards.
They
will become human in a future incarnation of the
earth, and then the group spirit will look after them as
race or a national spirit until they have become perfectly
capable of taking care of themselves individually. The
group spirits of the animals are in the Desire World and
circle the surface of the earth. The group spirits of the
plants are in that part of the Begion of Concrete Thought
which occupies the center of the earth, and the group
spirits of the minerals have not yet properly entered the
atmosphere of our earth. They are in the Region of Ab-
stract Thought.
The group spirits of the animals are very often seen in
the Desire World having human bodies and animal heads.
The illustrations upon the Egyptian temples represent in
a crude way the appearance of these group spirits. The
trained investigator finds no difficulty in conversing with
them and often he has cause to marvel at their erudition.