cle 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 these etheric forces not only the
continuation of the etheric forces of the sun? Or their force of attraction?
Does it not belong to the sun? There we see that if we understand the
existence in an unrestricted way, we can realise that such an arbitrary
limitation does not take place if we speak of a heavenly body like the
sun. The effects which come from the sun were in the former times still
quite different on the earth than they were later, and than they are
today. They were in such a way that, if anybody could sit down on a
chair and could have looked at the whole world edifice basically the
physicist imagines this in such a way if he illustrates it to the children
, he would not have perceived the sun and the earth as separate bodies,
but he would have over-viewed the whole filled with perceptible contents;
he would have seen that the earth is crystallised from the whole sun
ball in later times.
If we go back to the times
of the most distant earth past, we come to a point where that what has
deposited in the lunar matter today was still connected with the earthly
matter where the forces, which are pulled out today, were still efficient
on the matter. These had effects on our physical bodies. They formed
it in such a way that it reacted in quite different way to the forces
and that in quite different way the effects on the bodily expressed
themselves. In even earlier times the solar effect on the earth was
there in an even more different way than today, also concerning growth.
When the lunar body and the earth body were still united, we have all
earth beings in a state which we only find with the animals which have
the temperature of their surroundings approximately. The warm blood
starts to develop to the same extent as the lunar matter withdraws from
If we go back farther to
the times in which the solar body was still connected with the earth,
we find within the human ancestors the effects which are preserved today
in quite decadent forms of the lowest animals. The human being reproduced
in those days by a ki