{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 100/1907-06-24/p021","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"You must imagine that in the beginning the present Earth and the present Moon formed one body with the Sun. Only when the Sun began to shine forth again, one part of the Beings separated from it with their own environment, so that two celestial bodies arose. One of these bodies, the Sun, begins to develop into a fixed star, and the body which separates from it begins to circle around it. The ancient Sun thus divided itself into two parts; the more highly developed substance remained behind upon the Sun, and the less perfect substance was eliminated. Consequently, that which once pursued the same course, because there was only one body, now followed two separate course: the Sun path and the Moon path. The Sun path was the one which developed upon the Sun-body, whereas the Moon developed its own world. You could reconstruct the ancient Moon by mixing together the present earth and the present Moon; this would enable you to form a conception of the way in which the ancient Moon was constituted. Both physically and spiritually the present Moon is far below the Earth in regard to its quality, and the Earth separated from the Moon just because it needed better conditions of life for Beings who lived upon it. The Earth developed beyond the stage it had reached during the Moon existence; but its best part remained behind upon the Sun.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"IX. The Earth's Passage Through Its Former Planetary Conditions","site_heading":null,"date":"1907-06-24","location":null,"word_count":236,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/100/1907-06-24/p021","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"ANS1942","book_title":"Theosophy and Rosicrucianism","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA100/English/ANS1942/19070624p02.html","evidence":null,"reason":"source_says_translator_unknown","note":"The source page itself says the translator is unknown. No translator is established for this lecture: nothing at the level of the lecture names one. Do not attribute this English to a translator, and do not borrow a credit from another lecture of the volume. 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Es teilte sich also die alte Sonne in zwei Glieder; höher gearbeitetes Stoffliches blieb auf der Sonne zurück, und das - weniger Vollkommene wurde ausgeschieden, so daß, was früher einen Weg ging, weil nur ein Körper da war, nun zwei Wege ging: den Sonnenweg und den Mondenweg. Der Sonnenweg war derjenige, der sich da auf dem Sonnenkörper ausbildete; der Mond bildete seine eigene Welt aus. Den alten Mond würden Sie bekommen, wenn Sie die heutige Erde mit dem Mond zusammenrühren würden; daraus können Sie sich schon einen Schluß bilden auf die Art der Beschaffenheit des Mondes. Der heutige Mond ist in seiner ganzen Qualität physisch und geistig weit unter der Erde stehend, und die Erde trennte sich gerade deshalb vom Mond, um für ihre Wesen bessere Daseinsbedingungen zu haben. Die Erde hat sich schon wieder weiter gebildet als sie dazumal war in ihrem Mondenzustand. 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