Leadbeater, Charles W.: Man Visible and Invisible: Examples of different types of men as seen by means of trained clairvoyance (London, 1902)

THE ANIMAL GROUP-SOTJL. 45

the time that we reach the really higher animals
a comparatively small number of bodies is
attached to each group-soul. It is found that
the individualization which lifts an entity
definitely from the animal kingdom into the
human, can take place only from certain types
of animals. Only among domesticated creatures,
and by no means among all classes of even those,
does this individualization occur. It must of
course be remembered that we are very little
more than half through the evolution of this
chain of worlds, and it is only at the end of this
evolution that the animal kingdom is expected
to attain humanity. Naturally, therefore, any
animal which is now attaining or even approach-
ing individualization must be very remarkably
in advance of the others, and the number of such
cases is consequently very small. Still they do
occasionally occur, and they are of extreme
interest to us as indicating the manner in which
we ourselves came in existence in the remote
past. The lunar animal kingdom, but of which
we were individualized, was at a somewhat lower
level than the animal kingdom of the present
day; but the principle adopted seems to have
been almost precisely the same.