Self-Knowledge and God-Knowledge I

GA 90a — 1 January 1904, Berlin

IX. Pitris

The Pitris of the moon - Manvantara - had the task of developing the sentience in its most ideal form. They had attained the likeness of Yahweh and became seeds. The solar Pitris were those who had progressed in lunar development. The lunar Pitris had attained the likeness. Those who had trained as masters on the moon were intellectually higher than the moon deity. The earthly deity extends as far as earthly development.

Yahweh only advanced to the first person of the Trinity through an error.

People or lower Dhyanis are those who advance beyond the lunar epoch.

None of the lunar Pitris had developed the causal body.

1. Incarnation of the planetary chain: planetoid,
2. Mars,
3. Moon,
4. Earth.

The Pitris as empty bellows absorbed the elementary essence in order to gain physicality.

All this took place in the darkness, and now the first red sphere emerges from the universe. The highly developed cosmic beings now draw the essence towards themselves, and the formers, the planetary spirits, shape according to the archetypes, placing them within as seed-images. These have a task that transcends the individual planetary manvantaras. They do not stand within our development.

The highest thoughts are sunk in as germs, and now the next formers come and give shape; the archetype of man, of the animal, of the crystal, which at first were only points. As a third step, astral matter now comes in, like color in the ink. Sphere D formed in physical matter for the first time.

E.- F - G.: Evolution of life instead of form.

At first there were automatic human beings; now they begin to want to move, to stir from within.

First the point is animated, then the figure, then the matter, and the archetype turns into seed.

The Pitris were the souls - perfect sensation; the physicality from the elementary essence; the spirit is lowered from the Logos as a black point; and the earthly task is the perfect marriage between spirit and soul. The seed of the spirit is lowered into the soul.

First the souls must bring the forms to maturity, then inhabit them.

Segregation of the mineral kingdom: the minerals are present as archetypes and can reproduce themselves. – Etheric fire.

1. round,
2. round,
3. round: gelatinous, gigantic beings.

The solar Pitris now intervene to take control.