Inner and Outer Evolution

GA 91 — 3 September 1904, Berlin

10. Manas as Light and Love

Let us once again visualize the sequence of stages of the three kingdoms of nature. The mineral kingdom merely takes the form for the particularity. The plant takes the life from the general nature and transfers it to a single being. Thus it seeks in universal nature a perpetual source of life. This is the difference between plant and animal, where life depends on the ancestor. Hence this intimate being of the plant interwoven with universal nature, more chaste life.

Man has already passed through these three realms on three previous spheres. He was realized in the mineral, plant and animal kingdom. The shape was admittedly different. It resembled an automaton in the mineral; human plants looked radiate; human animal forms were egg-shaped. The human being reaches a kind of completion on the three first plans, so to speak. In the order of the kingdoms he could not have perfected himself further - only as an animal. Perfection of animality there can be much greater.

We only have to be clear that as long as an animal remains animal, manas in animality does not work on the physical plan, but on a higher one. Think of an animal: it will differ from man under the condition that its manas does not remain in the animal, but on a higher plan, so that if one wanted to imagine it sensually, one would have to think of the animal as pulled on strings.

The mind lies on the higher plan and acts into the lower. So with lower organs of the human being. A thigh, for example, is so artfully constructed that the thing could not be made more ingenious by the sharpest engineering.

To train the animal means: manas cannot do anything if the animal has no organ to do it; if the brain cannot be used to count, manas cannot count. If you prepare the brain of the animal, you give Manas opportunity to work from the higher plan down to an animal. Therefore, only occultists and mystics should do it. Otherwise, you can do something that is harmful in the universe.

In the Atlantean race, animals were artificially formed and trained into new species by crossbreeding; to this our animals now owe their higher qualities. Thus we must not be surprised that certain animals rival man in the skill of their ability. A bone can do even more than man. The Moeris lake was created with perfect art. The ancient Egyptians still knew how to drain the Nile waters into an artificial lake that irrigated the land through canals. It was still a kind of higher instinct, manas worked into it from the higher plan.

Man differs from the animal in that Manas works within him, not from above. Manas has descended to the physical plan. That is why an animal can progress further than a man, yet it is qualitatively below man. - What shows me the time is spirit of the clock inventor; he works from another sphere. Thus manas in the higher sense. That can also be called highest at the same time, what man achieves in the three former spheres: Being into which Manas works from outside. The task of earthly development is to transform the body so that Manas can work from within. And now you will also become clear about the difference of the human being standing on the fourth stage of development from the one standing on the third: that that which formerly acted upon him from the outside, bursts forth from within.

Now everything must be properly prepared. Let us think the lunar period completed. Now everything had to be repeated briefly, and for this purpose previous stages were necessary. Only the Lemurian period was so far that Manas could make the transformations. Also the Lemurian race has seven sub-stages. In the fourth, Manas bursts forth from within the human being. Let us imagine the great contrast: the certainty with which Manas works from outside in the animal; fallibility is unthinkable. Therefore, free will is also unthinkable. Only when Manas moves into the inside, fallibility is conceivable.

Now that the spheres are closed and Manas is within, he is, as it were, locked in prison and dependent on meeting his fellow Manases. Fallibility occurs only when Manas shines forth from within. Throughout the evolution of mankind, the possibility of freedom occurred, the ability to choose between good and evil. In the whole early macrocosmic nature there can be no question of freedom. Until that time, animals lived with absolute security. All animals with warm blood and fighting instincts arose only after the middle of the Lemurian period, with sexuality at the same time.

Before there were single beings, directed by Manas; now single beings with freedom of choice arose. Now something new must arise, which harmonizes the beings. The drive cannot now come from Manas, for it has lost its security. A new element appears. This is the element of love. Love has not been necessary before, because before the security of instinct has worked. From the lowest to the highest, what is called love has now arisen. Even the most subordinate form, sexual love, appeared only now, up to the forms of the most spiritual love. As in an atmosphere our whole earthly macrocosm was wrapped up in love at that time. This love in the organic was connected with the development of the warm blood. It is the physical vehicle for love.

Those entities that were powerful, great entities before could not remain; these were the fishes, they withered away. Cold-blooded beings of today are the last remains of great, mighty fishes of the Lemurian time. Only warm-blooded animals feel well now.

And now we see what the earthly development has become since that time. The animal spreads its beingness like a cover over something, which reveals itself from the outside in: "The animal is gone.

Man reveals himself. Higher development is that he reverses the matter, that he sends the threads of his mana outside. He gives the threads of his being as love. So on the one hand revelation - to the animal, then intermediate realm of egoism, then realm of love.

Exusiai - coming forth of a higher entity into a lower one. Revelation. Light is the physical expression for this shining in; this revelation. Occult light is the revelation of a higher element by a lower being. Love is the surrender of one's higher element through a lower appearing being. In this struggle humanity still stands. Earthly development is the struggle between light and love.

What resides in man himself? A drop of manas, the inner glow itself. Love is the inducement for Manas to push outward. - Two principles.

The manasic entity that works in infinite facets as human souls is called Lucifer. Occult name for that which acts as light on man. The power that lets it flow out, that pushes outward, is Jehovah. The love entity that pushes the manasic entity outward is Jehovah. "God is love." It came in to the world in the middle of the Lemurian period.

What will fully express itself as love when the human way of life is at its goal, will express itself as divine wrath while it is still in an imperfect state.