Do you see how the desires press forward toward their creator who has called them all here?” Sol asked the sister quietly.

“Here in the immediate vicinity of their father, so mighty today, they behave better than at the time, when their creator did not yet have the power that he is executing today.

“The mighty shepherd once had a strong emotional relation - be it love or hate, or just some kind of personal sympathy or antipathy - to all of these creatures and things.

Maybe some long, long time ago he highly esteemed, in some manner, every little thing that appears here - maybe because he wanted to have it or hear or see it, or touch or smell or taste it.
But also when he did rather not want to smell or taste it it appears here today because he has called it like all the others in order to give them now complete satisfaction like to an age-old enemy.

“If for example the wise herdsman once looked full of joy and excitement at a pearl to buy it but could not do it because of certain obstacles, it will come here today just as well as the knight he abhorred because he had stolen his beloved horse.

And the horse he once loved so much appears too for deep within himself he has never forgotten the horse, nor the knight nor the pearl - how else could he summon them here today so unerringly?

Forever the herdsman had carried the personal confidence within him: one day we shall come together again, and everything will be compensated that is not settled yet.

“When he once indulged in ambition or had despised it in someone else: today that ambition appears in the same vigour and expects satisfaction for his appreciation or contempt.
The same goes for all the other features that you see coming near in great number.

Now the day has come when all desires receive wholesome nourishment in such quantity that they are satisfied for all time to come and thus become independent from their creator - like the children of a father getting so much from him that they can from now on lead a completely independent life.”