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dear tiff,
if you feel like reading more, to perhaps gain a larger backdrop, you may want to read steiner's karmic relationships series. they sat on my shelf for long time! maybe they'd offer you more educative value. you could read bobby matherne's individual reviews of the multi-volume series (just change the numeral in the link, 1-8, for the respective volume).
please see - i know what you mean - nina
http://www.doyletics.com/arj/kr1rvw.htm

"in this metaphor, a crude one, because not all things exactly fit, i have laid out for you the karmic plan for your present life. here's steiner's table from page 40, with a column added for the building task force metaphor:
hierarchy spiritual beings functions house metaphor
3 angels, archangels, archai well-being (comfort, discomfort) interior decorators
2 powers, mights, dominions sympathies, antipathies contractors
1 seraphim, cherubim, thrones events, experiences architects

you might ask where is the owner in this set of hierarchies? the owner is you, me, our individual 'i' which is "in our ego-organization, and lives over from an earlier earth life." (page 40). once we have moved into our new house for awhile, we tend to forget about the architects, the contractors, and decorators and just say it's my house, i built it, and we take personal credit for all the good stuff in it and blame the other stuff on lack of time or money, up until now. from now on we can give credit to the first, second, and third hierarchies for faithfully executing the requirements that we gave them. where did those requirements come from? from the way we lived our previous lifetime. "