RUDOLF STEINER ASSURES THAT SUN AND MOON EMERGED FROM EARTH

In the lecture given by Rudolf Steiner on August 25, 1910, he said the following about the earth:

« Those of you who have heard some of my earlier lectures, and also those who have studied the description of earth evolution in my book “Occult Science” will remember what great importance I attached to two significant moments in this evolution.

1) The first was the separation of the sun from the earth. This was a very important event. It had to take place at some time, for had the two cosmic bodies remained united, as in the first stage of earth existence, the course of human evolution could not have given to man his true earthly meaning.

All that we include in the word “sun” (thus not only the elementary or physical constituents in the body of the sun, but also the spiritual Beings who belong to it) had to withdraw from the earth, because had those Beings remained united with it, their forces would have worked too strongly for man's welfare. They had to mitigate their forces by removing themselves from the terrestrial scene and working upon it from without.

We are therefore concerned with a point of time when a number of Beings transfer the scene of their operations to a distance, so as to moderate their influence on the development of both man and animal. From a certain point of time the earth is left to itself, and, because its finer, more spiritual forces have withdrawn with the sun, undergoes a certain coarsening.

But man, such as he has become through the Saturn, Sun and Moon evolutions, still remained for a time with the earth. It was only very exalted Beings who withdrew with the sun and found their scene of activity outside.

After this separation, the earth still had within it all the substances and forces which go to make up the present moon. Man therefore was exposed to conditions which were much grosser than earth conditions proper later became, for the substance of the moon is very crass, as it were.

One result was that, after the separation of the sun from the earth, the earth forces became ever more moonlike, ever denser. Another, that man himself was now exposed to the danger of wilting away, of becoming mummified, or at any rate of becoming mummified astrally.

While, so long as the sun remained with the earth, conditions had been too fine, they now became too coarse. Consequently, as the development of the earth proceeded, man could thrive less and less by maintaining his connection with it. This is described in detail in my book “Occult Science”.

We know from yesterday's lecture that men were still psycho-spiritual beings at this time, but that they were unable to unite with the earth on account of the density of the matter which streamed from the earth into its periphery so long as the moon remained with it.

So it came about that the great majority of human souls had to relinquish their union with the earth. Here we come to something of great importance in the relationship between man and earth, something which happened during the time between the separation of the sun and that of the moon.

During this interval human soul-spirits, except for a very small number, abandoned earthly conditions, and pressing upward into higher regions, continued their evolution upon the several planets belonging to our solar system, each according to the stage of his development.

Some souls were fitted to pursue their evolution on Saturn, others on Mars, others again on Mercury, and so on. Only a very small number of the strongest soul-spirits remained in union with the earth.

During this time the rest dwelt upon the earth's planetary neighbors. This came about at a time preceeding (to use our own terminology) the Lemurian age.

2) Then came that other important event, which took place as we know during the Lemurian time, whereby the moon with all its matter and all its forces was itself withdrawn from the earth.

This brought about great changes in the earth, which now for the first time came into a condition in which the human being could thrive. Whereas the earth's forces would have been too spiritual had it remained united with the sun, they would have become too coarse had it remained with the moon.

Hence the moon too withdrew, and both sun and moon Beings then worked upon the earth from without, thereby bringing it into a state of balance. And in this way the earth prepared itself to become the bearer of human existence. This all happened during the Lemurian age.

Evolution now makes a further advance, and little by little the human soul-spirits who had escaped to the planets begin to return again. That went on far into the Atlantean epoch. What had crystallized out as man during the latter part of Lemuria and during Atlantis was gradually endowed with soul-spirits of differing characteristics, according to whether they came from Mars, or Mercury, or Jupiter and so on.

This brought about great variety in earthly incarnations. Those of you who are familiar with the lectures I gave recently in Christiania know that this division of men into Mars-men, Saturn-men and so on was the origin of what later became racial differentiation. It is still possible today for the seer to recognize whether a man's soul has descended from this or that planet.

But it has also been emphasized (and it has been fully discussed in my book “Occult Science”) that by no means all human souls abandoned the earth. What we might describe as the toughest souls were able to go on using earthly matter, and to remain with the earth.

I have even mentioned the startling circumstance that there was an outstanding pair of humans who survived the densification of the earth. And spiritual investigation impels us to accept what to begin with seems incredible that there was such a couple as Adam and Eve. »

OBSERVATIONS

What Rudolf Steiner narrated here is a set of aberrant nonsense as I have rarely read.

His affirmation that the Sun left the Earth is completely absurd!!!

It is totally false that the Moon has been separated from the Earth during the Lemurian civilization because that would have caused a cataclysm so immense that it would have destroyed ALL life on the planet. And not even some human survivors would have stayed as Steiner intended.

His story that most earth humans went to live on Jupiter, Saturn, Mercury and Mars is completely delirious. And this surely Rudolf Steiner copied it to Leadbeater, who claimed that the other planets were physically inhabited as is the Earth.

And it is also false that there are beings inhabiting the Moon and that they are working on Earth from the outside, because in reality the Moon is a dead satellite where life has long since gone.

And this is an example of how delirious Rudolf Steiner’s Anthroposophy can be, and I am really stunned that there are people who still believe that this guy was a great clairvoyant when he says such aberrant things.