‘Come, we will make a start, André. While on our way, I will continue telling you what you still have to know. I am going to connect you with the past and with my own life on earth. What I want to explain to you bears relation to what I told you just now. We shall go to my studio.’
‘Do you know where your friend is at this moment?’
‘Yes, my boy, I know and later on I’ll connect you with him.’
André looked at his leader and asked: ‘Was he a scholar, Alcar?’
‘Yes, but he neglected his studies. He tried his hand at art on earth, but he lacked the feeling. He lived between two worlds – the material and the spiritual world – but he was conscious of nothing. He remained a searching soul until his end on earth. There were many feelings in him. He sought and wanted to possess, but he went on seeking, as I said before; and in that condition, he unconsciously entered this life. His attunement was that of thousands of others. They are willing, but achieve nothing. Whatever they absorb does not come to perfection. They are trying to create a condition on earth, but whatever they do and establish it gives them no satisfaction. That is the very last transitory stage towards spiritual consciousness. Do you feel, André, what I mean?’
‘Yes, Alcar.’
‘Well then, once it has attained this heightened condition, the soul establishes something, however small this achievement may be. Man knows then what he wants and cannot be stopped at anything. He is aware of his doings and goes on, always further, not minding anything. These beings live on earth. Those others, who are as he was, are neither good nor bad, as there is no consciousness in them. They are living dead. All this I must explain to you now.
‘On our previous journey I spoke about pre-animal-like, animal-like, coarse-material, and material consciousness. In every situation the soul is conscious and can acquire this consciousness. The soul lives to see and shall relive. Whatever it establishes, even though it may be animallike and terrible, the being lives and is conscious of what it does. One will give himself for the destruction of others, another will go for material possessions, but all will perish. But one day the human being will reach a condition of consciousness and will not know how to act. That is the condition of half-awakened consciousness.
That is searching for a great many things, for love and happiness; but they do not descend in anything, because they do not know what they really would like. And so life on earth passes by and they enter here. This was his condition. That is why he lived at the boundary between two spheres. He did wrong things in his life on earth. He caused a young life, about which he spoke, to suffer the greatest misery. By his actions, she perished. He knew this happened through his actions and that is how she entered this life.
I knew where she was, but I could not tell him because that was only possible at a later stage. So I let him talk and remained silent. Others had done what he did, he said, but it was he who left her by herself. He did not know, however, that the child was his. While still on earth I discussed these things with him, but he turned a deaf ear; it could not be possible, he said. And yet, I knew quite definitely that the child born was his.
This was the sorrow he caused her. By his doing she landed in this awful condition and her life on earth became a hell. Then I heard about her death. Later, much later, he began to feel remorse and tried to make it up. He gave away the money he possessed. In that condition he awoke and gave himself entirely. Then he, too, passed away. All this belongs to his life.
I told you already, we met again at this side and he had not changed in anything. That feeling of remorse was consciously present in him. Also, in this life he could not free himself of it. How could he possibly have freed himself of it?
Do you understand what I mean, André? That this was blocking his spiritual progress and that what happened on earth must dissolve and be made up? One time he will be able to live and see that, but only God can help him. No spirit, however high, commands those forces. At this side it is known how it is possible, and this law is understood. While on earth, one is not aware of this, but at this side one is faced with all those earthly problems. One cause brought him in this condition.
Others cannot make it up for him. He himself will have to alleviate that sorrow. There should be nothing of this kind in us or it will call us to a halt at this side. It stops us, because it has to be made up first. I know how he will accomplish that, but will refer to that later; then I will explain everything to you.

The Origin of the Universe, page 30-32