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A cosmic body has also an ether and an astral body. Our earth has its ether and astral vehicles. If our earth did not possess its own ether body, it would not be able to harbour the plants; if it did not possess its own individual astral body, it would not be able to shelter the animals. If we wish to visualize the earth's ether body, we must imagine its central point exactly at the center of the earth where the physical earth body also has its central point. This entire physical earth body is embedded in its own ether body and these two are again embedded in an astral body. If someone had observed clairvoyantly the astral body of the earth during the course of the earth's evolution, during the course of long epochs of time, he would have seen that, as a matter of fact, this astral body and ether body of the earth have not always remained the same, that they have changed. In order to represent the matter quite pictorially, let us in spirit transplant ourselves outside beyond the earth to some other star, and let us imagine a person with clairvoyant vision looking down upon the earth from this star. He would not only see the earth suspended there as a physical planet, but he would see an aura about it, he would see the earth surrounded by an aura of light, for he would be perceiving the earth's ether and astral bodies. If this clairvoyant person were to remain a long time on this distant star, long enough to have observed the pre-Christian periods of the earth pass by and the Event of Golgotha approaching, the following spectacle would have presented itself to him. Before the Event of Golgotha the aura of the earth, the astral and ether bodies offered a certain aspect of colour and form, but following a particular, definite moment of time, he would have seen the colour of the entire aura changing. What was this particular moment of time? It was the very moment when the blood flowed from the wounds of Christ-Jesus upon Golgotha. 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We have already reviewed the evolution of the human being and of the earth from various standpoints. We know that our Earth, before it became the Earth, passed through the three embodiments of Saturn, Sun and Moon. Therefore the embodiment just preceding that of our Earth was that of the ancient Moon. When a planet has attained the goal of its evolution, something happens to it similar to what happens to a human being who, in a certain incarnation, has attained his life's goal. The planet passes over into a different invisible existence, a state called a “Pralaya” and then after a time it embodies itself anew. Thus between the previous embodiment of our Earth, the Moon Evolution, and the Earth's present embodiment, there existed an intermediate state. Out of a sort of spiritual, self-animated, externally invisible existence, the Earth gleamed forth in its earliest state and out of this state developed those states which we described yesterday. At that time, in that early age when our Earth gleamed forth, it was still united with all that now belongs to our solar system. It was then so large, that it reached to the furthest planets of this solar system. All was unity, for only later individual planets became segregated. The present earth up to a certain point of time was united with our present sun and moon. Thus we see there was a time when sun, moon and earth were a single body. It was as though you were to take the present moon and sun and stir them together with the earth and thus make one large cosmic body. This was our Earth once upon a time when your astral body and your ego were floating about in a vapour-like form. Even earlier than this the sun, moon and earth were joined together. At that time the forces which are now in the sun—the spiritual and physical forces—were bound up with the earth. Then came a time when the sun separated from the earth; but not only did the physical sun with its physical light which can be seen with physical eyes depart, but with it all its spiritual and soul beings at whose head stood the Elohim, the real Spirits of Light, the denizens of the sun. What was left, was a mixture of the present moon and earth. Then for a time the earth, though separated from the sun, was still united with the moon. It was not until the Lemurian period that the moon separated from the earth, when, as a result, there arose that relationship between these three bodies, sun, moon and earth, that exists today. This relationship had to occur. The Elohim had to act from without. It was necessary for one of them to become Lord of the moon and from there reflect the powerful force of the other Elohim. We live at present upon our earth as though dwelling upon an island in cosmic space which has separated from the sun and moon. But the time will come when our earth will once more unite with the sun and again form one body with it. Then human beings will be so spiritualized that they will again be able to bear the stronger forces of the sun, able to receive them and unite them with themselves. 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Had the Event of Golgotha not occurred, the earth and the sun would never be able to reunite. For through the Event of Golgotha, which bound the force of the Elohim in the sun to the earth—in other words the force of the Logos—the impulse was given which will again eventually impel one Logos-force toward the other, and finally once more unite them—sun and earth—in one body. Since the Event of Golgotha, the earth, spiritually observed, is possessed of the force to draw the sun again into a unity with it. Therefore it can be said that through this great Event, the force of the Logos, which formerly radiated down upon the earth from without, was now taken up into its spiritual being. The question may be asked, what existed previously within the body of the earth? It was that force which streamed down upon it from the sun. But since that time, what exists there within the earth? The Logos itself which through Golgotha has become the spirit of the earth.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":184,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/103/1908-05-26/p008","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1908-05-26","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 103/1908-05-26/p013","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/103/1908-05-26/p013"},{"locus":"GA 103/1908-05-26/p014","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/103/1908-05-26/p014"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","anchors","reader"],"reader_german":["GA 103/1908-05-26/p013","GA 103/1908-05-26/p014"],"length_check":{"de_words":154,"en_words":184,"ratio":1.19,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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That spirit which for a time now stands here before you in the flesh is also the spirit of the earth and will always continue as such.” He had occasion to point to the earth as to His real body and ask: “When you behold the cornfield and then eat the bread that nourishes you, what in reality is this bread which you are eating? You are eating My body. And when you drink of the plant sap, it is like the blood in your own body; it is the blood of the earth—My Blood!”—These were the very words that Christ- Jesus spoke to His most intimate disciples and we must take them very literally. 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And the sap that flows through the plants, which pulsates through the vine stalk, is like the blood pulsating through the human body. Pointing to this, the Christ says: “This is my blood!” That this truthful explanation of the Last Supper can cause some of the sanctity to be lost which has always been associated with it can only be imagined by someone possessing no understanding of it or who has neither desire nor capacity for such an understanding. But anyone who wishes to understand will acknowledge that this does not cause it to lose in holiness, but that through it the whole of the earth-planet becomes sanctified. 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Unsere Erde hat ihren Ätherleib, ihren astralischen Leib. Würde unsere Erde nicht ihren zu sich gehörigen Ätherleib haben, so würde sie nicht Pflanzen beherbergen können; würde unsere Erde nicht ihren zu sich gehörigen astralischen Leib haben, würde sie nicht Tiere beherbergen können. Wenn man sich den Ätherleib der Erde vorstellen will, so muß man sich dessen Mittelpunkt ebenso im Mittelpunkt der Erde denken, wie der physische Erdenleib seinen Mittelpunkt dort hat. Dieser ganze physische Erdenleib ist eingebettet in den Ätherleib der Erde und diese beiden zusammen wieder in einen astralischen Leib.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":166,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/103/1908-05-26/p006"},{"locus":"GA 103/1908-05-26/p007","passage_number":7,"text":"Wenn nun jemand hellseherisch den astralischen Leib der Erde beobachtet hätte im Laufe der Erdentwickelung, im Laufe langer Zeiträume, so würde er gesehen haben, wie tatsächlich dieser astralische Leib und dieser Ätherleib der Erde nicht immer dieselben geblieben sind, daß sie sich veränderten.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":43,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/103/1908-05-26/p007"},{"locus":"GA 103/1908-05-26/p008","passage_number":8,"text":"Um uns die Sache recht bildlich vorzustellen, wollen wir uns einmal im Geiste versetzen außerhalb der Erde auf irgendeinen anderen Stern, wollen denken, ein hellseherischer Mensch sehe von einem anderen Stern auf unsere Erde hinab. Ein solcher Mensch würde nicht nur die Erde schweben sehen als einen physischen Planeten, sondern er würde eine Aura sehen, er würde die Erde von einer Lichtaura umgeben sehen, weil er wahrnehmen würde Ätherleib und astralischen Leib der Erde. Würde nun ein solcher hellseherischer Mensch auf diesem fernen Stern lange weilen, so lange, daß er die vorchristlichen Zeiten für die Erde vorübergehen und das Ereignis von Golgatha hätte eintreten schen, so würde sich ihm folgender Anblick darbieten: Die Aura der Erde, Astralleib und Ätherleib bieten einen gewissen Anblick von Farben und Formen vor dem Ereignis von Golgatha; dann aber würde er sehen, wie die ganze Aura ihre Farben ändert von einem bestimmten Zeitpunkte an. Welcher Zeitpunkt ist das? Das ist derselbe Zeitpunkt, wo auf Golgatha das Blut aus den Wunden des Christus Jesus floß. Alle geistigen Verhältnisse der Erde als solche veränderten sich in diesem Augenblicke.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":181,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/103/1908-05-26/p008"},{"locus":"GA 103/1908-05-26/p009","passage_number":9,"text":"Wir haben gesagt: Dasjenige, was wir den Logos nennen, das ist die Summe der sechs Elohim, die mit der Sonne vereinigt sind, die also die Erde mit ihren Gaben geistig beschenken, während äußerlich das Sonnenlicht auf die Erde niederfällt. So erschien uns das Licht der Sonne als der äußere physische Leib für Geist und Seele der Elohim oder des Logos. In dem Moment, da das Ereignis von Golgatha geschah, hat die Kraft, der Impuls, der früher nur von der Sonne der Erde zuströmen konnte im Lichte, angefangen, sich mit der Erde selbst zu vereinigen; und dadurch, daß der Logos angefangen hat, mit der Erde sich zu vereinigen, dadurch ist die Aura der Erde eine andere geworden.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":116,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/103/1908-05-26/p009"},{"locus":"GA 103/1908-05-26/p010","passage_number":10,"text":"Wir wollen das Ereignis von Golgatha noch von einem anderen Gesichtspunkte aus betrachten. Wir haben ja jetzt schon von den verschiedensten Standpunkten aus zurückgeblickt auf das Menschenwerden und auf das Erdenwerden. Wir wissen, daß unsere Erde durchgemacht hat, bevor sie Erde wurde, die drei Verkörperungen des Saturn, der Sonne und des Mondes, so daß also die vorhergehende Verkörperung unserer Erde der alte Mond war. Wenn solch ein Planet das Ziel seiner Entwickelung erreicht hat, geht es ihm ähnlich wie einem Menschen, der in einer Inkarnation sein Lebensziel erreicht hat: der Planet geht über in ein anderes, unsichtbares Dasein, das man das Pralaya-Dasein nennt, und dann verkörpert er sich von neuem. So lag auch ein Zwischenzustand zwischen der ehemaligen Verkörperung unserer Erde, wie es der alte Mond war, und der heutigen Verkörperung. Sozusagen aus einem geistigen, in sich belebten Dasein, das aber äußerlich unsichtbar war, glänzte die Erde in dem ersten Zustand auf, aus dem dann diejenigen Zustände wurden, die wir gestern beschrieben haben. Damals, als unsere Erde also aufglänzte in jener alten Zeit, war sie noch verbunden mit allem, was zu unserem Sonnensystem gehört. Da war sie noch so groß, daß sie hinüberreichte bis zu den fernsten Planeten unseres Sonnensystems. Alles war noch eins, und die einzelnen Planeten zweigten sich erst später ab. Die Erde war verbunden bis zu einem gewissen Zeitpunkte mit unserer heutigen Sonne und mit unserem heutigen Monde. Es gab also eine Zeit, da waren Sonne, Mond und Erde ein Körper, so, wie wenn Sie den heutigen Mond und die heutige Sonne nehmen und mit der Erde zusammenrühren und einen großen Weltkörper daraus machen würden. So war einst unsere Erde; so war sie damals, als Ihr Astralleib und Ich noch in einem wasserdunstartigen Gebilde schwebten, und noch früher. Sonne, Mond und Erde waren vereinigt. Damals waren also die Kräfte, die heute in der Sonne sind, die geistigen und die physischen Kräfte, mit der Erde verbunden.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":318,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/103/1908-05-26/p010"},{"locus":"GA 103/1908-05-26/p011","passage_number":11,"text":"Dann kam eine Zeit, da trennte sich die Sonne heraus von der Erde. Aber nicht nur die physische Sonne mit ihrem physischen Lichte, sondern diese physische Sonne, die das physische Menschenauge sieht, trennte sich heraus mit ihren geistig-seelischen Wesenheiten, an deren Spitze die Elohim, die eigentlichen Lichtgeister, die Bewohner der Sonne, stehen; und da blieb zurück dasjenige, was man erhalten würde, wenn man den heutigen Mond mit. der Erde zusammenmischte. Denn eine Zeitlang war die Erde von der Sonne getrennt, aber mit dem Mond noch vereinigt. Erst in der lemurischen Zeit trennte sich der Mond von der Erde, und da entstanden die Beziehungen zwischen den drei Körpern Sonne, Mond und Erde, wie sie heute sind. Diese Beziehungen mußten so entstehen. Es mußten die Elohim zunächst von außen wirken. Einer von ihnen mußte sich dann zum Herrn des Mondes machen und von da zurückstrahlen die gewaltige Kraft der anderen Elohim.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":149,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/103/1908-05-26/p011"},{"locus":"GA 103/1908-05-26/p012","passage_number":12,"text":"Wir leben heute auf unserer Erde wie auf einer Insel im Weltenraume, die sich herausgegliedert hat aus Sonne und Mond. Aber es wird eine Zeit kommen, da wird unsere Erde sich wieder vereinigen mit der Sonne und eisen Körper mit ihr bilden. Da werden die Menschen dann so weit vergeistigt sein, daß sie die stärkeren Kräfte der Sonne wieder ertragen, in sich aufnehmen und mit sich vereinigen können. Dann werden die Menschen und die Elohim auf eines Schauplatz wohnen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":79,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/103/1908-05-26/p012"},{"locus":"GA 103/1908-05-26/p013","passage_number":13,"text":"Welche Kraft wird dies bewirken?","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":5,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/103/1908-05-26/p013"},{"locus":"GA 103/1908-05-26/p014","passage_number":14,"text":"Wäre das Ereignis von Golgatha nicht vor sich gegangen, so würde niemals eintreten können, daß Erde und Sonne sich vereinigen. Denn durch das Ereignis von Golgatha, durch das die Kraft der Elohim in der Sonne oder die Kraft des Logos sich mit der Erde verband, wurde der Impuls gegeben, der Logoskraft zu Logoskraft wiederum hintreibt und die beiden - Sonne und Erde — zuletzt wieder zusammenbringen wird, Seit dem Ereignis von Golgatha hat die Erde, geistig betrachtet, die Kraft wieder in sich, die sie mit der Sonne wieder zusammenführen wird. Deshalb sagen wir: In das geistige Dasein der Erde wurde aufgenommen, was ihr vorher von außen zuströmte, die Kraft des Logos, durch das Ereignis von Golgatha. Was lebte vorher in der Erde? Die Kraft, die von der Sonne auf die Erde niederstrahlt. Was lebt seither in der Erde? Der Logos selber, der durch Golgatha der Geist der Erde wurde.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":149,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/103/1908-05-26/p014"},{"locus":"GA 103/1908-05-26/p015","passage_number":15,"text":"So wahr in Ihrem Leibe wohnt Ihr Seelisch-Geistiges, so wahr wohnt in dem Erdenleib, in jenem Erdenleib, der aus Steinen, Pflanzen und Tieren besteht und auf dem Sie herumwandeln, das Seelisch-Geistige der Erde; und dieses Seelisch-Geistige, dieser Erdengeist, das ist der Christus. Der Christus ist der Geist der Erde. Wenn also der Christus spricht zu denen, die seine intimsten Schüler sind, und bei einer Gelegenheit spricht, die zu den intimsten Gelegenheiten zwischen ihm und seinen Schülern zählt, was darf er ihnen da sagen? Welches Geheimnis darf er ihnen da anvertrauen?","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":90,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/103/1908-05-26/p015"},{"locus":"GA 103/1908-05-26/p016","passage_number":16,"text":"Er darf sagen: Es ist, wie wenn ihr von eurem Leibe in eure Seele blickt. Drinnen ist eure Seele. Und so ist es auch, wenn ihr blickt auf das ganze Erdenrund, Was jetzt zeitweilig im Fleische hier vor euch steht, das ist derselbe Geist, der nicht nur in diesem Fleische zeitweilig ist, sondern der der Geist der ganzen Erde ist, und es immer mehr werden wird. — Er durfte hinweisen auf die Erde als auf seinen wahren Leib: Wenn ihr die Halme seht und das Brot esset, das euch nährt, was eßt ihr in Wahrheit in den Ähren des Feldes? Meinen Leib eßt ihr! Und wenn ihr die Säfte der Pflanzen trinkt, was ist das? Das Blut der Erde ist es, mein Blut! — Das sagte der Christus Jesus zu seinen intimsten Jüngern wörtlich, und wir müssen die Worte nur wirklich buchstäblich nehmen. Da, wo er sie zusammenruft und wo er ihnen die christliche Einweihung, wie wir sie nennen werden, symbolisch darlegt, da spricht er zu ihnen ein merkwürdiges Wort, als er ankündigt, daß einer ihn verraten wird. Er sagt im 18. Vers des 13. Kapitels des Johannes-Evangeliums:","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":188,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/103/1908-05-26/p016"},{"locus":"GA 103/1908-05-26/p017","passage_number":17,"text":"> «Der mein Brot isset, der tritt mich mit Füßen.»","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":10,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/103/1908-05-26/p017"},{"locus":"GA 103/1908-05-26/p018","passage_number":18,"text":"Dieses Wort muß wörtlich genommen werden. Der Mensch ißt das Brot der Erde und wandelt mit seinen Füßen hier auf dieser Erde herum. Ist die Erde der Leib des Erdengeistes, das heißt des Christus, dann ist der Mensch derjenige, der mit den Füßen herumwandelt auf dem Erdenleib, der also den Leib dessen, dessen Brot er ißt, mit Füßen tritt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":59,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/103/1908-05-26/p018"},{"locus":"GA 103/1908-05-26/p019","passage_number":19,"text":"Eine unendliche Vertiefung der Abendmahlsidee wird uns im Sinne des Johannes-Evangeliums zuteil, wenn wir also wissen vom Christus, dem Erdengeist, und von dem Brot, das dem Leib der Erde entnommen ist. Christus weist darauf hin und sagt: «Dies ist mein Leib.» (Markus 14, 22) Wie das Muskelfleisch des Menschen zum Leib der menschlichen Seele gehört, so gehört das Brot zum Leibe der Erde, das heißt zum Leibe des Christus. Und die Säfte, die durch die Pflanzen ziehen, durch die Weinrebe pulsieren, sie sind dem Blute gleich, das durch den Menschenleib pulst. Und der Christus darf hinweisen darauf und sagen: «Dies ist mein Blut!» (Markus 14, 24). Nur wer nicht verstehen oder keine Anlage haben will zum Verstehen, der kann glauben, daß durch diese wahrhaftige Erklärung das Abendmahl etwas verlöre von der Heiligkeit, die mit dem Abendmahl verbunden ist. Wer aber verstehen will, wird sich sagen: Nichts verliert es hierdurch an Heiligkeit, aber der ganze Erdenplanet wird durch diese Auslegung geheiligt! Und welche gewaltigen Gefühle sind es, die durch unsere Seele ziehen können, wenn wir soin dem Abendmahl das größte Mysterium der Erde erblicken können: die Verbindung des Ereignisses von Golgatha mit der ganzen Evolution der Erde; wenn wir so lernen im Abendmahl zu fühlen, daß das Herausfließen des Blutes aus den Wunden des Erlösers nicht bloß eine menschliche, sondern eine kosmische Bedeutung hat, daß es nämlich der Erde die Kraft gibt, ihre Evolution weiterzubringen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":234,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/103/1908-05-26/p019"},{"locus":"GA 103/1908-05-26/p020","passage_number":20,"text":"So soll derjenige, der diesen tieferen Sinn des Johannes-Evangeliums versteht, fühlen, wie er nicht nur durch seinen physischen Leib mit dem physischen Leibe der Erde verbunden ist, sondern wie er als geistig-seelisches Wesen verbunden ist mit dem geistig-seelischen Wesen der Erde, das der Christus selber ist; wie der Christus als der Geist der Erde diese als seinen Leib durchflutet.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":59,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/103/1908-05-26/p020"},{"locus":"GA 103/1908-05-26/p021","passage_number":21,"text":"Wenn wir dies empfinden, dann können wir sagen: Was leuchtete denn dem Schreiber des Johannes-Evangeliums auf in dem Moment, wo er die tiefen Geheimnisse schauen konnte, die mit dem Christus Jesus verbunden waren? 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