{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 102/1908-02-15/p015","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"You will all remember that at the very beginning of its evolution the Earth was still one body with sun and moon—and this you can easily combine with the theory of the original mist or nebula. If you were, therefore, to stir together the three heavenly bodies, earth, sun, moon, in a gigantic cosmic cauldron you would get a body which at one time existed. Then came the time when the sun drew out and left earth and moon, to be followed by a time when the moon too drew out and left our earth as it is today with the sun on one side and the moon on the other. We now ask our-selves how it came about that three bodies arose out of the one. You will easily see why that happened when you re-member that highly-evolved beings, standing two stages above man, were present in the primordial mist—unified with its external existence. They would have had nothing directly to do on such a cosmic body as our present day earth, they needed a dwelling place with quite different characteristics. On the other hand the human being would have been consumed in an existence united with the sun. He needed a weakened, milder existence. It was essential then that through the action of the Fire-Spirits the sun should be withdrawn from the earth and made into their scene of action. It was not a merely physical event: we must under-stand it as the deed of the Fire-Spirits themselves. They drew out their dwelling place and all they needed as sub-stances from the earth and made their theatre the sun. By virtue of their nature they can endure that immense velocity of development. If the human being were exposed to such a velocity, then scarcely were he young when he would at once become old. All evolution went on at a furious tempo. Only such beings as stood two stages higher than man could bear the sun-existence. They drew away together with the sun and left behind the earth with the moon.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture III","site_heading":"Spiritual Beings and Planetary Formation in Cosmic Evolution","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. 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Dann kam die Zeit, wo die Sonne sich herauszog und Erde plus Mond zurückließ, und dann kam eine Zeit, wo-auch der Mond sich herauszog und unsere Erde so wurde, wie sie heute ist, auf der einen Seite von der Sonne, auf der anderen Seite von dem Mond umgeben.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":114,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/102/1908-02-15/p014"},{"locus":"GA 102/1908-02-15/p015","passage_number":15,"text":"Nun fragen wir uns: Warum geschah denn das, daß da aus einem Körper drei Körper entstanden? Sie werden leicht einsehen, warum das geschah, wenn Sie bedenken, daß solche hoch entwickelten Wesenheiten in dem Urnebel vorhanden waren — mit dem äußeren Dasein des Urnebels verknüpft -, die zwei Stufen höher standen als der Mensch. Die hätten auf einem Weltkörper wie unsere heutige Erde unmittelbar nichts zu tun gehabt; sie brauchten einen Wohnplatz mit ganz anderen Eigenschaften. Dagegen hätte der Mensch in diesem Dasein sozusagen verzehrt werden müssen, wenn er mit der Sonne verbunden geblieben wäre. Er brauchte ein abgeschwächteres, abgemildertes Dasein. Es mußte also durch die Tat der Feuergeister die Sonne aus der Erde herausgehoben und zu ihrem Schauplatz gemacht werden. Das ist nicht ein bloßes physisches Ereignis; sondern das haben wir aufzufassen als die Tat der Feuergeister selber. Sie haben sich ihren Wohnplatz und alles, was sie brauchten an Substanzen, aus der-Erde herausgelöst und die Sonne zu ihrem Schauplatz gemacht. Sie können es vermöge ihres Wesens vertragen, jene riesenhafte Schnelligkeit in ihrer Entwickelung durchzumachen. Wenn der Mensch dieser riesenhaften Schnelligkeit in der Entwickelung ausgesetzt wäre, so würde er, kaum daß er jung war, schon gleich wieder alt sein. Alle Entwickelung ginge im Sturmschritt vorwärts. Nur solche Wesenheiten, die schon zwei Stufen höher stehen als der Mensch, können ein solches Dasein, wie es das Sonnendasein ist, vertragen. 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