ime.
But at that time this external mental reality could just be perceived.
Only bit by bit the senses
developed as they are today. With it the reason, the object consciousness
came into being. The original gift of clairvoyance withdrew. At the
same time, we come to a time where another development goes hand in
hand with this development, the development of the so-called uni-sexuality.
The human being was not always in such a condition as he is today concerning
his reproduction. The bigger force which the soul had over the physical
caused that the human being could produce a being of the same kind without
resorting to another physical human being because he combined both sexes
in himself. Hence, the transition was at the same time that of the mutual
perception and that from hermaphroditism to uni-sexuality. At that time,
the human brain was not yet developed in the same way as it is today.
The human being was not yet such a cerebral being as he is today; at
that time he also did not have such a perception as he has today. This
is the time of which we have already spoken which is simultaneously
the time of the creation of the human brain.
I have indicated last time
that we do not sign Darwinism completely. We sign it in this respect
that it shows the relationship of the physical human being with all
other physical living beings on earth. But I have also indicated that
we do not regard the imperfect animal living beings as ancestors of
the present human beings, not even of the psycho-physical human beings.
We have to regard these animal beings rather as branches of a common
ancestor which resemble neither the modern human being nor the imperfect
living beings, the animals of today.
In the time of which I have
spoken, the higher mammals did not yet exist. The higher mammals have,
just as the human being, only more imperfectly, a brain and a perception
similar to the human one. Beings which have developed such a perception
did not yet exist in this time. There were on the earth only beings
with pictorial ideas, with a pictorial kind of soul formation, and basically
everything was united in one single being, like in a common nodal point,
that is today the human being and the higher animal realm. The human
being was, in so far as it is a psycho-physical being, in a certain
respect on the level of animality. But no present animal and also not
the present human being resembles the human being of that time. However,
the human being has developed so far that a part, a branch of the previous
type has further-developed up to the present-day human beings. Other
members of the beings of that time remained behind because of certain
circumstances which I will especially show another time. They went back
in their development, became decadent. These decadent beings are the
I want to make this point
clear to you and use the following for it: you know that there are regions
in which Catholicism has degenerated to a kind of fetish service where
it appears like adoring lifeless objects or pictures of saints. Nobody
is able to state that this point of view, in proportion to the more
perfect to which humankind has developed, is the same one. This fetish
Christianity is a decayed Christianity. Thus it is also from the theosophical
point of view considering different “savage” tribes. The
materialistic history of civilisation regards them as ancestors of the
civilised people. We regard them as decayed, decadent descendants of
once advanced peoples. The same applies to the higher animals if we
go back in time even farther. Once they were more perfect, they decayed.
We come to a formation of the human realm which is different which shows
the human being still undifferentiated from the other higher animal
species, indeed, at a time which lies millions of years behind us.
How has it come to pass
that the human being stopped in those days on the course of his development?
Concerning his soul development the human being is completely the result
of that which takes place round him. Simply imagine the room in which
we are with a temperature higher than hu