{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 102/1908-02-15/p017","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Thus there were beings at the very beginning of our Earth who were scarcely fitted to take part in further development, who were still so young in their whole evolution that any further step would have destroyed them. They had to receive a sphere of action, so to speak, on which they could preserve their complete youthfulness. All other fields of action existed to give dwelling-places to those who were al-ready more advanced. For the beings who arose last of all during the Moon existence, and who therefore had stayed behind at a very early evolutionary stage, a field of action had to be separated out. This scene of action was the cosmic body which we call “Uranus,” and which therefore has but slight connection with our earthly existence. Uranus has become the theatre for beings which had to remain at a very backward stage.","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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Wenn der Mond mit der Erde verbunden geblieben wäre, dann hätte der Mensch auf der Erde sein Dasein auch wieder nicht vollziehen können. Der Mond mußte ausgestoßen werden; denn er hätte die ganze Entwickelung der Menschen mumifiziert. Die Menschen hätten nicht eine so rasche Entwickelung durchgemacht, wie wenn die Sonne dageblieben wäre. Sie würden nicht so rasch alt werden, aber sie wären verholzt, zu Mumien vertrocknet, ihre Entwickelung wäre eine so langsame geworden, daß sie mumifiziert worden wären. Damit gerade das für den Menschen dienliche Maß der Entwickelung herauskam, mußte der Mond mit seinen Kräften und seinen untergeordneten Wesenheiten herausexpediert werden. Daher sind auch mit dem Mond jene Wesenheiten verbunden, welche von mir beschrieben worden sind als solche, die zeitlebens auf einer Stufe stehen bleiben, die heute auf der Erde etwa ein siebenjähriges Kind erreicht. Da sie nur ein Dasein durchmachen wie der Mensch in der Zeit bis zum siebenten Lebensjahr, wo nur der physische Leib sich entwickelt, so brauchten sie einen Schauplatz, wie der Mond es ist. Wenn Sie dazu die Tatsache nehmen, daß nicht nur diese verschiedenen Wesenheiten mit dem Urnebel verbunden waren, sondern noch eine ganze Reihe von Wesenheiten, die auf den verschiedensten Stufen der Entwickelung stehen, dann werden Sie begreifen, daß sich aus dem Urnebel nicht nur diese Weltkörper, wie Erde, Sonne und Mond, herausballten, sondern auch noch die anderen Weltkörper; und zwar ballten sich alle heraus, weil Schauplätze entstehen mußten für die entsprechenden Entwickelungsstufen der verschiedenen Wesenheiten. So waren Wesenheiten da, die im Anfange, als unsere Erdentwickelung begann, kaum geeignet waren, die weitere Entwickelung mitzumachen, die noch so jung waren in ihrer ganzen Entwickelung, daß jeder weitere Schritt ihnen Verderben gebracht hätte. Sie mußten sozusagen einen Schauplatz erhalten, auf dem sie sich ihre vollständige Jugendlichkeit bewahren konnten. Alle anderen Schauplätze sind dazu da, denen Wohnstätten zu geben, die schon weiter sind. Für die Wesenheiten, die zuallerletzt während des Monddaseins entstanden, und die deshalb auf einer sehr frühen Entwickelungsstufe stehengeblieben waren, mußte ein Schauplatz abgeballt werden, der deshalb auch nur geringen Zusammenhang mit unserem Erdendasein hat: es ballte sich derjenige Weltkörper ab, den wir als den Uranus bezeichnen. 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