448. In the consciousness of beings, all that which is known as "instinct" actually consists of the last vestiges of that "cosmic consciousness" which belongs in the final zones of the previous spiral. When those beings departed from the "kingdom of bliss", that form of consciousness left their day-consciousness. As these beings are deeply occupied with their concentration on, and powerful desire for, primitiveness by virtue of the energy of ecstasy which they have developed in the "kingdom of bliss", then their "cosmic consciousness" is pushed into the background. And therefore the beings at this stage have no element in them which is strong enough to be able to maintain that form of consciousness in the newly begun organisms in the initial zones of the new spiral. Only what has become basic "C knowledge", or has become an automatic function, survives the progression through the first zones of the spiral and is just able to achieve a little revival in the being's consciousness during the stages when they have advanced so far that they begin to take on the appearance of human beings, or in other words the stages in which they are beginning to be aware of themselves as something apart from their surroundings. With this discovery the I begins to recognize itself as a living being. Before this realization it really had no sense of its own existence. It is this form of consciousness in which realization of its own being is still lacking, that constitutes the consciousness of an "animal" pure and simple.