re of darker colour shadings appeared.
If he made it reversely, if he came from a colder air layer to a warmer
one, then there was a yellowish or a yellowish-reddish colour picture.
Thus those human beings had colour pictures which did not combine, however,
with the surface of the bodies, but lived as uncertain colour pictures
in the soul. This combined then with the surroundings of the human being.
But at that time the human
being had something else. He had a fine sensitivity for that what took
place emotionally in his surroundings. If we are here in a room, you
do not sit there only as physical bodies, but also as souls. In each
of you feelings and sensations live. These are also something real like
the physical body is something real. What today the human soul has as
sentient ability can no longer penetrate these forces of the feelings
and sensation because just due to the further development of humankind
the human being became clearer in his consciousness because he has developed
his reason, his everyday view. But he has temporarily lost what existed
in his soul. He will regain this ability maintaining his present reasonability
and his clear waking consciousness. Once the whole humankind attains
a state which today only the practical mystic, the clairvoyant has.
In order to attain this state the human being had to go through a merely
physical view, through a merely bodily percipience. In one respect humankind
gets to a higher level, and in another respect it descends to a lower
level in certain way.
At that time, the human
being came from a vague, dim percipience. But this was at the same time
mental-clairvoyant percipience. If now in the nearness of the human
being any likeable feeling, anything emotional lived which you allow
the expression emitted sympathy, then the human being received those
bright colour pictures in himself. Bad feelings let arise darker colour
pictures tending to blue, brownish, reddish colours. This was the interrelation
of the inner soul-life with the external mental reality at that time.
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 