hat he got down there, not the external heat. Thus the human being
had to get down all remaining abilities from the heaven, too.
I would like to lead you
still to a point that is also very important for the earth development.
This is the moment when the human being takes up in him what we have
once got to know as the inside of the soul. We have seen that pictures
have risen up in the human being which he associated with the objects.
The human being possessed this ability to develop light in him in the
first time. He acquired that sooner as well as he acquired the ability
later to develop warmth. The human being developed the ability to sense
light around him or still more properly speaking to sense the objects
around him in the light. This took place on a planet which the theosophical
world view calls “Moon.” However, this was not our physical
moon. When the soul had acquired the ability of the inner light, the
connection was there, and who knows the circumstances of the past, knows
that it evoked the soul ability of seeing colours, the inner luminescence.
We have to realise once how this abilities are connected. The development
of warmth is connected with all life on our earth, with the present
kind of reproduction, with the way the human being can bring something
into real existence. Everything else is combining; only the reproduction
is a real creating, and this is connected with warmth. We have a similar
level of development when the inner luminescence appeared. The human
being developed the luminescence on a previous planet. This was a luminescence
from within like it is warmth from within today. It was luminescence.
With it we have come to the most excellent characteristic of the human
being in his pre-physical state on another heavenly body. Everything
that went out from the human being was luminous as his aura shines today.
The human being was a luminous being, and the perception of the human
being was the perception of his luminescence. At that time, luminescence
developed down to the physical. It was a physical luminescence of the
How do we get our most significant
ideas of the environment? Just by means of the visual percepts. You
would nearly lose nine tenths of that what you know if you cancel the
visual percepts. Because we have visual ideas today, wisdom can pour
somewhat in us. With our lunar ancestors this was different. From them
the light was emitted. The same was emitted from them that pours in
us as light effects today. One calls our earth the universe of love
in the mystic mythology because it is connected with forces of love.
The universe of wisdom on which the light played the same role as today
the warmth preceded this universe of love. The earth followed as a universe
of love the universe of wisdom. The inner light is connected with the
human will. The human being, who has certain desires, passions, sensations,
and emotions, provides his aura, his astral body with particular colour
shapes. These are subjected to the will in a broader sense. In those
days, in the lunar period, the whole human being was an expression of
will. The will flowed outwardly and came to the fore as that which shines.
Hence, our ancestors are
the sons of will if we call these human beings of the universe of wisdom
human beings. The children of love descended from the sons of will.
The light played a similar role in those days as today the heat on the
earth. One calls these luminous human beings within the luminous environment
also the sons of the twilight. It was an especially luminous human being
within the surrounding luminosity, an exchange of light took place as
we have an exchange of warmth today. As we have a feeling of cold if
it is cold one approximately had a feeling if it was darker all around
than in the own inside. The will was the basis of that because the will
basically found its expression in the whole surroundings. As today the
human being is creative by love, he was creative in those days using
his will. His will had an immediate influence on all surroundings. As
powerless the creating human being is befo