Inner and Outer Evolution

GA 91 — 21 August 1904, Graal

5. Helpful Concepts for Understanding the Days of the Week

First we show how ancient are the findings - usually facts still reaching into ancient times - which surround us daily. Example of the days of the week written out of the "face" and on the other hand taken out of the cosmos.

Man consists of seven principles, four of which are already formed, three are in the process of becoming. When he is conscious of his temporal development, he must think of the number 7, of the ratio of 3 and 4. Man should keep this in mind every day, this is what the occultists wanted. From this ratio of 4 to 7 the days of the week are brought down from heaven. The ancients thought of the cosmos this way: earth, moon, Mercury, Venus, sun, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn.

With the Copernican [system], however, it is not true. It behaves with it as follows: It depends on where you stand. Copernicus assumed: How do the celestial bodies move if you take the sun as the center? The ancients: How, if one assumes the earth as center? It depends only on the perspective.

The ancient occult astrologers have said: every day has four main times of the day. These are to remind man of his four lower principles. Now they have taken the ratio of 4 to 7 and written it down seven times. We start from the morning and go from the sun, consecrate the first day to the sun; [the ancients] went around and around the cycle until the 7 was over. Now they named each of these days after its morning: from the morning consecrated to each planet is taken the day of the week. This gives:

[Morning - Moon = Monday
Afternoon - Mercury
Morning night - Venus
Afternoon night - Sun Morning - Mars = Tuesday - Tin
Afternoon - Jupiter
Morning night - Saturn
Afternoon night - Moon Morning - Mercury = Wednesday, Mercury Day, Wednesday - Wotan
Afternoon - Venus
Morning night - Sun
Afternoon night - Mars Morning - Jupiter = Thursday - Donar -, Jupiter day afternoon - Saturn mid-morning night - Moon mid-night - Mercury Morning - Venus = Friday, Venus day
Afternoon - Sun
Morning night - Mars
Afternoon night - Jupiter Morning - Saturn = Saturday, Saturn day, Saturday
Afternoon - Moon
Morning night - Mercury
Afternoon night - Venus Morning - Sun = Sunday
Afternoon - Mars
Morning night - Jupiter
Afternoon night - Saturn]

The division of time should have a meaning, not erwas indefinite remain. He should not live an hour without inserting himself into the whole universe, because man is born of the universe and is connected with it through each of his organs.

When a shot is fired somewhere and the wave vibrations are created, they come to the generation of consciousness through the ear. It is set up to perceive vibrating air, and would have no purpose if there were no vibrating air. Therefore, the occultist said: It is clear that there were no such organs before there was air. Therefore, the element of air is related to the sensory tool of the ear. Therefore, he researched the connection between element and sense. To every element belongs a sense. The perception of sound belongs earlier than the ear - because man could perceive earlier with the ether-ear. In the ether-ear there has been a much infinitely finer sound; and another tool, another organ of perception existed in the first race, which transformed itself in the second race to the present ear. Likewise it has gone with other organs.

The first element that is present around us is the earth, the solid. The second element is water, which in physics is called the liquid. The third element is fire, the fourth is air, the fifth is ether. To these five elements the human sense tools stand in a quite certain relationship. To the earth the sense of the smell. Before there was a solid, there could be no sense of smell. The sons of fire mist and water did not have it. Only what evaporates as a solid can be smelled.

The water is mystically related to the sense of taste. Fire to the face. Air to feeling, the ether to hearing. As the first root race was, the ether passed into air, and there the finer sense of hearing, which the people had in the beginning, changed into the physical sense, and at the same time the sense of feeling, which was perceptible only as temperature - sense of warmth, arose. As the sense of warmth was then, there is no organ today, it has atrophied. Out of the opening in the skull stood a funnel-shaped organ - now pineal gland, which he stretched out. Gradually, the sense of warmth becomes more physical and - the fire mist time comes - transforms into an organ that can perceive not only warm and cold, but light and dark, and also color differences: an eye, sense of sight.

When the water time begins, this one sense of sight is still present - Cyclops. Then gradually a new one had joined the sense of sight: the sense of taste; and at the same time, how the water condenses, how it becomes . As long as man lived in the air, there was no possibility of seeing distances. Only with the solidification of the earth the necessity to perceive distances begins. You can perceive distances only if you have two eyes, they behave like a stereoscope, make things physical, round them. - With one eye you would see things as if painted on a wall. - This is caused by the intersection of the eye axes. Two eyes are formed instead of the one frontal eye. Approximately in the last Lemurian time.

Through this also the ability is formed to adapt the sense of feeling to what is perceived as distance. And last of all, the sense of smell is formed in the Atlantean period.

So we have an ever-increasing solidification in the development of the earth and with it a formation of the corresponding five senses.

Even earlier, before man had the sense of hearing of the ether, he had another. In truth, we have seven elements, two even higher and finer elements than ether: the divine fire - and still higher = Akasha.

In the future, the senses will change in the same way. And as now the sense of hearing is the highest, still higher ones will arise. The sense of hearing is already in development. During the Atlantean time language has developed; in the very last Lemurian subrace it began. The first speaking was only an expression of desire and displeasure. The sensation sound gradually connects itself with the being that evokes a feeling, and thus the designation language gradually emerges.

First feelings, objects, then mental images, and lastly only (so rightly with the Ursemites) abstract thoughts were designated.

Similarly, the sense of feeling will continue to change and acquire a new ability to perceive the astral, which will perceive the "divine flame". It will have a very definite relationship with the human heart. It will receive an immediate impression of the sensation of the fellow being.

Similarly, the spiritual sense - the pineal gland, which is in the process of regression - will develop and perceive in the Akasha in a completely different form. As a luminous crown of rays it will be seen; this organ is called: the Kundalini light. - The man moving in the ether could perceive the word moving in the clay, which later solidified to the earth; he heard the harmony of the spheres.

This consciousness that man is not a single special being was expressed by the ancient teachers in such a way that they continually reminded him of his connection with the whole starry world.