Elemental Beings and Human Evolution's Moral Consequences

We have learnt that beings who are today two stages higher than man, the Fire Spirits, went through their human stage on the old Sun, and we have further learnt that the Asuras went through the human stage on Old Saturn. Their qualities, good as well as evil, stand far above or below those of man. Thus in the course of time we have reviewed a whole series of beings who participate in the whole development of our life and nature. We have come to know beings to whom in a certain respect we must look up; and one who can observe clairvoyantly finds a significant distinction between them and man. You know that we differentiate various members of man's nature. We apportion to him a bodily nature—the physical body, etheric body, astral body—and, distinct from the body, a soul-nature—sentient soul, intellectual soul, consciousness soul—and thirdly, a spirit which is only in the initial stages of evolution. In the future phases of our planet man will bring it to a higher development.