Supplements to Member Lectures

GA 246 — 10 January 1909, Munich

16. Earthquakes

Man would have been mummified if the forces of fire in the earth had not been subdued. Not the lignification, but the layers of the earth would have caused this.

Influence on fire and earth was withdrawn from man after Lemuria.

Atlantic time: solar forces, influence on water and air, which is still [possible] today; through the higher forces of man [also] on fire, this was withdrawn from him. The abuse of the powers of the sun and growth brought forth the Atlantean flood, as a result of evil influences, through Ahriman's powers.

Ahriman brought back to man influence over fire and earth, which after Lucifer's influence [gap in the textual basis]

The absorption of spiritual life into the human soul is the only remedy against these disasters.

Answer to the question: Christ only begotten son?

Father-Power works from Saturn to Vulcan. Christ-Sun to Venus. Holy Spirit: Moon to Jupiter.

The Son born of the One is said in the Gospel.

Archangels: Sun; [Spirits of] Personality: Saturn; Spirits of Form: higher already with Saturn; Forces; Dynamis.

Father-Spirit will still be active in Vulcan.

Ahriman = insulator of man for the spiritual world.

Humans would gradually fall out of evolution without the influence of Christ.