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with anything we know today. Thus we come back to quite different circumstances.
One can still follow up this if one wants to get to know the origin
of the earth. This origin is intimately connected with the whole development
of the human being. If we go back, we find the human being in company
of much lower animals which belong to the lower classes of our present-day
animal realm which had, however, other figures in those days, were different
from their present-day descendants. Because the earth became more solid
and denser, they took on other shapes and characteristics. We have,
if we observe what takes place in us with the bare rational eye, no
idea how it looked at that time. An animal world, nevertheless, lived
round the human being. As the human being takes up food from the physical
world today, he also took up it in those days in similar way.
We have now to realise that
what I tell now is something quite fantastic and strange for those who
are not used to such ideas. The time has come to pronounce it once again.
We stand on the point of evolution where again an idealistic world view
will replace the purely materialistic one. Going back to these times,
the whole materiality of our earth becomes different. At that time,
the mass of the earth I ask you to not be too much astonished about
what I say was still in connection with other heavenly bodies than it
is the case today. Already somebody who thinks the present physical
ideas without clairvoyance to an end understands that what I say is
not completely inconsistent.
You need only to go back
according to the Kant-Laplace theory to the time when the single planets
do not yet circle the sun, have not yet developed from the primal nebula,
and then you have a valiant, but correct hypothesis. We can also come
back from the standpoint of the physicist to a time when the earthly
materiality still was in contact with the materiality of the whole solar
system. At that time, the human being was much more related with everything
than he is today. In the Akasha Chronicle we find in this time that
the earth was in a material connection of much more intimate kind with
another heavenly body which circles the earth today, with the moon.
It was a certain material interrelation between earth and moon.
If I may express myself
roughly: what we have today as earth mass formed only because the crude
materiality that we have in the moon was extruded as it were. Both bodies
have differentiated from each other. You can imagine which immense shocks
must have occurred there in the whole materiality! This cosmic shock
is the counter pole, the correlative of what I have told, the correlative
of the big living being with whose separation and change is connected
that the human being went over from hermaphroditism to uni-sexuality.
The whole separation did not take place in one go. Unfortunately, the
reading of the theosophical literature offers so much opportunity to
assume as if a heavenly body hurries out of the other. However, it is
not a violent development. Slowly and gradually everything took place,
in millions and millions of years. However, it is difficult to speak
about figures because one must get to know the methods which the secret
If we go back even farther,
we find another interrelation that is harder to imagine and more intimate
than that interrelation which today exists between sun and earth. But
it existed in an older time. We want to take an idea in hand which makes
it somewhat easier to us to illustrate this interrelation a little figuratively.
If you see the sun and then imagine the sun limited within space is
it really limited that way? Already a quite usual reflection can teach
us that a real demarcation of the sun is basically not possible.
Does the sun really stop
being where one sees its border? It does not stop there, its effect
spreads through the whole planetary system. On our earth the sun has
an effect. Does not belong that to the sun body what the sun makes on
our earth, do not the etheric forces belong to it which spread on the
earth and make life possible? Are t