Fire and Earth Gates: Luciferic Evolution of Human Senses

GA 266I — 11 January 1909, Munich

Esoteric Lesson

Not all senses are equal. They have opened up the physical plane to us, but the sense of touch is not limited to this plane. It shows us or allows us to perceive not only the surface (soft, hard, rough, sharp) but also warmth. Man was originally a “warm body” = warmth, fire, has remained within him. In the early Lemurian period, there was no surface; the human soul permeated things. Through the influence of Lucifer, these closed themselves off behind a surface. The “earth gate” was closed. Even in the early Lemurian period, when humans, or rather the human soul, felt warmth, they also saw the astral light behind it. The “fire gate” was open. It closed when the “earth gate” was formed. Earth and fire are in an occult relationship to each other like air and water. The forces of the relationship between air and water are related to the germ forces that the Atlanteans mastered. We tap into these forces again through the relationships that fire has with air and earth with water. The former through breathing exercises. The latter through certain meditations (contemplation?) that have an effect on the earth-brain sand. Through the Luciferic influence, human beings closed themselves off in the earthly-physical shell earlier than would have happened if only the other forces had acted upon them. Fire (including physical and mineral fire) should have been taken away from him; Lucifer gave it to man, a fact that the Greeks and the ancient Norse peoples understood and expressed in the legends of Prometheus and Loki. Man will only learn to control “fire” on Vulcan and thereby become creative.