Steiner Predicts

The Seven Stages of Form will be followed by the Seven Conditions of Life. Bear in mind, we're talking far, far in the future. It's hard to see how R. Steiner could have seen that far ahead, but R. Seddon says he did, which I guess should be good enough for all of us.
 
Here are the Seven Conditions of Life, as R. Seddon says R. Steiner foresaw: 1st Elementary Kingdom (shapeless being [sic], physical body), 2nd Elementary Kingdom (shaping beings [sic], etheric body), 3rd Elementary Kingdom (sentient beings, astral body), Mineral Kingdom (created forms [not be be confused with Stages of Form]), 3-step pralaya, Planet Kingdom (living forms), Animal Kingdom (ensouled beings), and Human Kingdom (ego-beings [sic]). [1]
 
Did anyone spot the mathematical error I committed in "Matters of Form"? I just repeated it. If we count pralayas, there are eight, not seven, Stages and Kingdoms. I've included the pralayas because they appear on R. Seddon's chart [2], but pralayas should not be counted because they are just rest stations (or something).
 
A more interesting observation: In the days of the Seven Epochs, time periods may be designated as such: Epochs. In the Seven Stages of Form, however, Epochs will be replaced by Stages, some of which may seem to be locations (Higher Spiritland, and so forth). In the Seven Stages of Life, Stages will gave way to Kingdoms, which may or may not be locations. Now, "kings" are not necessarily despots, although here in the USA we tend to think poorly of them. A "king" (bad) has subjects, whereas a republic or democracy (good) has citizens. Citizens have rights, whereas subjects are just, well, subjects. So you can see that the future history will be headed in a somewhat sinister direction. But more on that later.
 
Let's look a little more closely at what is in store:
 
#1. 1st Elementary Kingdom. This will consist of intentions that become forces that remain unshaped, such as fire, air, fluids... Our physical bodies belong here because they fall apart and blow away. [3]

#2. 2nd Elementary Kingdom. Tricky. Proceeding, in a sense, from the 1st Elementary Kingdom, what we'll get here are sort of Goethe's ideas about ideas. Plus there will be gnomes, salamanders, and such. [Tenses get messy as we try to express these glorious future Kingdoms. They lie in the future but also, in a sense (Steiner's all-purpose weasel phrase), in the past. Stuff emerges from spirit realms into the physical and then back again. There's a lot of deja vu all over again. Gnomes, for instance, are found today in the depths of the earth because they were—or will be—thought up in the distant future, which is sitting out there in all its opulent transcendence, thus it has and always has been reflected in the past and present. Time and location and state, etc.—all are beyond the limitations of human categorization.] The way is, or will be, or was, paved in the 2nd Elementary Kingdom for the glands. [Ibid., p. 103.]
 
#3. 3rd Elementary Kingdom. Quick soul-stuff and -entities, shining out from within, real pretty and fast. Nerves. [Ibid., p. 103. Note: You may think I'm moving too fast, here, but R. Seddon crams all this and more onto a single page: p. 103.]
 
#4. Mineral Kingdom. Minerals and suchlike. [4. (Huzzah: Seddon has moved to a new page.)]
 
#x. Pralaya.  A millennium or so of not much. [5]
 
#5. Plant Kingdom. Living forms. (Aren't souls entities, and aren't gnomes, etc., living forms? Well might you ask.) [6]
 
#6 Animal Kingdom. Beings with soul (such as James Brown?). [9]
 
#7. Human Kingdom. The best of the best, flashing. [8]

In re. kings: When a "king" issues a command, that's that.
 

[1] TFOHATEAFBRS, p.132.

[2] Ibid., pp. 132-133.

[3] Ibid., p. 103.

[4] Ibid., p. 104.

[5] Ibid., still p.104.

[6] Ibid., pp. 104-107.

[7] Ibid., pp. 107-108.

[8] Ibid., pp. 109-111.