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37. Sadness of the animalia and the jealousy of the lower kingdoms.

It should be said in preface to this, that the lower kingdoms enjoy their lot and a saddened reflection is not characteristic of their evolutionary status - in most respects. Yet divorced from Man as they are, there is a certain pain at the necessary separation.

Furthermore, as time has passed and many of the elementals have developed, there has been more than a growing interest or need from the group-souls and the fey folk, as to what humanhood does and could mean to them. 

Whether articulated or not, there is a feeling lying in these realms which is both cautionary, anticipatory and at times a little jealous. The individual once again who is at the threshold of becoming self-conscious in his imaginative cognition will sense this disgruntlement as a pain and protest within his own being from time to time.

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