For the first three degrees of sleep, the inner life has not yet been released from the material body and the nervous system is still responding to internal and external stimuli. This is the half-waking consciousness. True deep sleep requires the transition to the fourth degree. Only here can feeling consciousness be withdrawn from the material body. Feeling then passes into the spirit body.
The inner life has to process the day’s consciousness during sleep. And when that does not happen you are dead tired in the morning.
If this happens structurally the nervous system becomes overloaded and this can then manifest itself in all kinds of ailments. In children, it sometimes happens that they sleep too fast in the fourth degree of sleep. They then do not feel the body’s signals that they need to urinate, resulting in bedwetting.
-The inner life must deal with the day-conscious during sleep; and when that does not happen you are extremely tired in the morning. Now the soul life has not been able to let off steam. In this state, the soul is still too active. This letting off steam is a physical law, which science also does not know anything about and which you will not understand either.
-If the human being cannot let off steam in his sleep, then the physical material system succumbs, that clock then runs unrelentingly fast. It now gets too much to deal with and that is not possible!
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-Anyone who is not in the fourth grade of sleep cannot let off steam and the soul therefore holds onto all its burdens of the day, stim- ulating the already exhausted nervous system, which the material disturbances let you know.
– Your subconscious already takes care of the overload and because of this the soul is completely freed from its own burden, or succumbing will be close-by. This is why your neurol- ogists cannot establish the most common disturbances, however learned they act. They must descend into that subconscious if they wish to make a clear diagnosis and determine where the actual pressure lies. The soul has this in its hands.
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-In the first three grades, the soul life still dominates the material systems. Children who could experience the third grade would not wet the bed, for them the fourth grade is too deep and the inner life does not feel the material pressure of the water on the sphincter or nerve and the water escapes, the third grade now wakes the soul. The person- ality must react and this prevents bed- wetting. Yet, many children wake up and this depends on the sensitivity of the nervous system and of the inner life, the personality.
Spiritual Gifts p.396 (SP.9755.9758)
Source: Quotations from the books of Jozef Rulof