In my last question, I’m not sure that I fully understand the last sentence that I quoted from the book – The Stairway To Freedom; Chapter 12:
“It is associated with the fulfillment of the drive within an animal to provide itself with food in order that the spirit within that animal should have an opportunity to express itself through that animal. The spirit being satisfied, the animal is satisfied.”

In the book they are on the subject of pleasure so, if I understand correctly, it is the spirit that is looking for pleasure and it does that by hunting.
Is that it?
I’m a bit confused.
Thank you
Jd

Guy’s answer:

That’s a good question.
I am not so sure that the spirit is looking for pleasure, more that the spirit wants to be the best representation of God in the form of a cat.
Meaning, that the cat is designed to be a hunter and to catch a mouse fulfills the purpose of a cat and therefore has served God in this instance by being the best representation of a cat.
So, the spirit will be satisfied that it has served God made manifest in that cat – meaning, the cat is God pretending to be a cat.

It is all an illusion but everything created by God wants to be the best representation of whatever it is.
A cat wants to be the best version of a cat created so it serves God.
The mouse wanted to be the best representation of a mouse.
A horse wants to, a bird, a flower, a human…

It is a very strange concept that all things with the spirit of God within it, making that thing alive, wants to be the best version of itself in order to best serve God, even though it may not realize that it is doing that just by trying to be the best at whatever it is.
God’s creation would not last very long if everything in it did not want to be the best that it could be.

Everything would just stop and creation would stop.

So, although our spiritual education teaches us to put others first and to be kind and see all others as ourselves, there is the underlying God force pushing us to be the best there is.
Does that help?

Guy