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89. Theosophic/Esoteric Cosmology: Esoteric Cosmology II 09 Jun 1904, Berlin
Translated by Frank Thomas Smith

Rudolf Steiner
Now I ask you to consider the difference between the esoteric and the usual understanding of Darwinism. We have the human being present in the indicated stage of the earth, as well as the vegetable kingdom.
But a time will come when people will learn to understand the images preserved for us in religious documents, fairy tales and fables. Thus we have the seven Rounds as the seven days of creation in the Bible.
When we see the Bible's message in this way, a meaning of these documents suddenly arises which we could not have previously understood. Humanity will finally see that there is such a profound meaning there that one would almost have to become a different person in order to understand it.
90a. Self-Knowledge and God-Knowledge I: World Wisdom and Human Wisdom 28 Sep 1903, Berlin

Rudolf Steiner
It is different when the being is capable of uniting all special interests under the law. Budhi is subject to the law. If there were only animal kama natures, there would be no sin in the world.
This also has to do with what we have come to know under the Brothers of Shadow and their influence.
90a. Self-Knowledge and God-Knowledge I: About Sinnet's “Esoteric Buddhism” 17 Nov 1903, Berlin

Rudolf Steiner
This book has acquired many members, who are now well-known, for the society. The book was written under the influence of a master. The master wanted to make these teachings accessible to the West. It was also partly inspired by questions that Sinnett himself addressed to the master.
This is due to the fact that they could not be understood in their full depth at the beginning. The work in detail always depends on the personality of the editor concerned.
What has been given as a sacrifice is given again as a sacrifice. On the whole, the world can only be understood as an act of love, as freedom and as sacrifice. One should not criticize the world process on one's own initiative.
90a. Self-Knowledge and God-Knowledge I: On the Process of Becoming of the Human Races 01 Dec 1903, Berlin

Rudolf Steiner
Parts of Africa still belong to it, at certain times also Egypt - although Egypt has repeatedly been under water - and Greenland. This race was preceded by the Lemurian race. In this race, man received the Manas from Kama.
90a. Self-Knowledge and God-Knowledge I: Cosmology and Planets 22 Dec 1903, Berlin

Rudolf Steiner
By the physical the medieval astronomer, who was not really an astronomer but a theosophist, understood only a sensualization of the spiritual connection. He did not understand the same, did not give the rough facts as the modern astronomer gives them, but he wanted to understand them as a sensualization of the spiritual connection of the world.
The manasic principle of the devas is quite different, has quite different characteristics, although it is allied with us and we are able to understand it. These indications are to be observed under certain conditions. But much has come to our knowledge only through tradition.
These were only available in ancient records, accessible only under special conditions.
90a. Self-Knowledge and God-Knowledge I: The Formation of the Aura I 12 Jan 1904, Berlin

Rudolf Steiner
We understand the cosmos best if I say something about the human aura first, and this will enable us to better present the development of the rounds and races with regard to the influence of the so-called Pitris.
If we go back to the beginning of our development on earth, we would have what underlies development. When we look at these natures, these astral spheres, they are the descendants of what we call the Pitris.
The Pitri seeds and their entire auric atmosphere; they undergo the Pralaya there. However, they would not be able to develop further in earthly evolution if they did not now encounter something that is present everywhere in the universe, but which can only be suitable for them in a certain form, namely that which can later become physical matter and which is present everywhere in the universe as cosmic dust.
90a. Self-Knowledge and God-Knowledge I: The Formation of the Aura II 19 Jan 1904, Berlin

Rudolf Steiner
This is also a reason why, at the beginning of the theosophical development or movement, the adepts, who are our adepts, could hardly be understood; why they themselves felt that they could hardly be understood. This was because the adepts, who belonged to the earliest population, had a much more spiritual life that had not yet descended into mere rationality. The Westerner wants to understand. Therefore, if you read the “Secret Doctrine,” you will find the passage where the Master says, “You with your Western judgment understand it only with difficulty!
The effectiveness of the Pitri is therefore to be understood as something similar, in which sense the earlier can participate in the construction of the new world body.
90a. Self-Knowledge and God-Knowledge I: The Formation of the Cosmos According to Annie Besant's “Ancient Wisdom” 26 Jan 1904, Berlin

Rudolf Steiner
Therefore, it must be realized that the Master is, under certain circumstances, much higher than the Deva. Yahweh only became the first person of the Trinity through an error.
The red sphere emerging from the archetype, developing out of the darkness. The archetypal world. The archetype of all understanding. The mind must be shaped. It must be formed into the body. There was only a solar plexus, no nerve plexus that emanated from the head.
The more you get to know Genesis, the more you will have to understand it literally. When you are ready to take the meaning of Genesis literally, then you have really understood it.
90a. Self-Knowledge and God-Knowledge I: The Second Logos 02 Feb 1904, Berlin

Rudolf Steiner
[I am speaking to you today] to show how one can understand the difficult subject of the rounds according to [the book] “Ancient Wisdom” by Annie Besant. First of all, I want to warn against speaking too abstractly about the Logos.
90a. Self-Knowledge and God-Knowledge I: On Devachan 18 Feb 1904, Berlin

Rudolf Steiner
In this case the aura is only a faint glow of light that spreads around the body, but it grows larger and larger the more incarnations the person has undergone and the higher and later the person's stage of development. Then this aura shows the most diverse light and color phenomena.
This indicates that the causal body is still underdeveloped, that the real self still has a long way to go before it develops. These are the people who show nothing but a few greenish or dirty indigo stripes in their brown ovals.
In it is written the law of karma. This law can only be fully understood if one knows how all evil and imperfection dissolves into good, how even evil only contributes to the increase of good.

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