# 51. On Planetary Development

That which animates the human being remains united with the physical body even during sleep. But that which dwells in the body when we are awake, but is separated from it when we are asleep, must be called our spirit-like soul. Thus, the soul can be seen to consist of two parts: one that is always united with the etheric body, and the other that is only united with it when we are consciously awake. During sleep, the ego leaves the body with the latter.

During sleep, this ego now belongs to the universe; it is united with the beings from which the human planet was originally born. — The spiritual soul belongs to the world of the planets that it has lived through before uniting with the etheric body. So it belongs to: Sun Moon.

I and the spiritual soul are united with the body in waking consciousness through desire, feeling and thought.

On Saturn, the human physical body is in preparation. The beings that are now revealing themselves as the spiritual currents on Earth are human on Saturn. They attain a physical existence only in the element of fire. But before they reach this, they pass through three other stages. On the first, they merely permeate the planet with general life-substance. On the second, they permeate it with individual differentiated substances; on the third they illuminate it, on the fourth they thus warm it; on the fifth it becomes their airy body, on the sixth a kind of watery body, and on the seventh they first shape it into solid forms. Here they then gain a kind of external view of the planet. They look down on it as on their work, which they have completed in seven great periods of creation.

The elemental forces stand above these entities. They had already reached the stage of viewing their work from the outside before Saturn was formed. They give the elemental forces a higher soul. At the end of the Saturn period, they are ready to animate the physical bodies created by the elemental forces. They then give them form of life. The elemental forces, however, form the life body. This is the solar time.

On the moon the archangels give the astral body; they give the life body [end of sentence missing].

> Sun – human being: physical body + etheric body  
> besides: separate physical covers,  
> which are animated by the forces.
> Moon – human being: physical body + etheric body + astral body  
> besides a world with physical body + etheric body – animated by powers and  
> physical shells: animated by dominions.
> Earth-man.  
> Animal - physical body - ether + astral body -  
> animated by powers.
> Mars: the aggressive soul, bravery.  
> Mercury: the intelligence.  
> Venus: love.  
> Jupiter: reason.  
> Saturn: attachment to the sensual.
> Saturn –  
> Sun: Saturn.  
> Sun – Saturn – Moon –  
> Sun – Saturn, Moon, Earth
> Plant - physical body + etheric body - animated by dominions.  
> Minerals - animated by thrones.  
> In man ruling - In sleep: the powers.  
> In waking:
> Now that religion is so much more real, where it is reborn in the spirit of modern criticism and scientific knowledge, should it not be asked whether the formal expression of some doctrines we have inherited from the Middle Ages and even earlier times could not be appropriately and without offence modified?
> In a forced sense it may be said of every saying that it contains an element of truth; especially of a saying which embodies the belief of many generations. But when the element of truth is quite different from that which has been presupposed, and when the original assertion is interpreted in a tortured way, it may be time to consider whether it can be without harm to its nature to reconsider and restore it.
> Cherubine keepers of the mysteries  
> Jacob ~ cherubim
> Ephesians. III. - 2-5.  
> The Messiah of Enoch is the one of the orthodox Jews.
> 2nd chapter. 1st epistle to Timothy
> What a race: Adam  
> the splitting =  
> Man gets his essence with Abel  
> Man gets his essence stamped on him from the outside.
> Cain. Asuras  
> What is the mark of Cain?
> Study of religious phenomena as if one were dealing with scientific questions.
> Laplace to Napoleon: he could do without the hypothesis of a god.  
> French naturalists: feeling of compassion. Identifying with the other.