{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 106/1908-09-09/p010","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Let us recall what was said in the last lectures about how the earth, while still at the beginning of its evolution, consisted entirely of human germs, which formed the primeval earth-mist. The Indian clairvoyant, as well as the Egyptian, could see the entire subsequent human form sprout forth spiritually out of this spiritual human germ. All that later grew out of this human germ could be seen clairvoyantly at that time. But one could also look back on those parts of man that first arose out of the germ. The first that arose out of this germ, when the sun was still connected with the earth, was actually like a sort of plant, which opened its chalice upward. These forms filled, so to say, the whole earth as they shaped themselves out of the primeval mist. But in the earliest time in which this arose, like a sort of flower corolla opening itself into cosmic space, this corolla was scarcely visible; man would only have been able to perceive it by feeling its presence as a chalice-shaped warmth-body. This was present at first as a warmth-body. While the earth was still connected with the sun, the inner part of this human formation began to light up and to shine into cosmic space. If at that time one had been able to see with the eyes of today, on approaching such a light-form one would have seen a sparkling sphere, like a glittering sun, which cast its gleams into space in a regular form. Today, one can hardly form a clear picture of what existed at that time. This would only be possible if one could conceive of the pure atmosphere of our earth as completely filled with fire-flies raying their light out into cosmic space. Thus would the first beginnings of man have shone into cosmic space when the earth was still connected with the sun. But this was not all that existed. At about the same time a sort of gas-body took form, outside and around the chalice form. Many substances were present in this, in solution, just as today we find fluid and solid substances in the human and animal bodies. At that time, however, they were air-forms. Soon after all this had arisen, other germs came out of the common earth-mass, germs that were the first indications of our present animal kingdom. Thus the human kingdom came forth first; then came the germs that gave rise to the animal kingdom. The earth still consisted of an air-mass, of gleaming light-disseminating bodies, which shone into cosmic space. Within this air-mass emerged the first traces of sexless animals, which stood at the lowest stage of the present animal kingdom. We shall see that these animals, then arising in their first outlines, had a certain significance for man.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Seventh Lecture","site_heading":"Cosmic Evolution of Human Form Through Osiris-Isis","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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Das erste, was aus diesem Menschenkeim heraus entstand, als die Sonne noch lange mit der Erde verbunden war, das war in der Tat wie eine Art Pflanze, die den Kelch wie nach oben öffnete. Diese Formen erfüllten sozusagen die ganze Erde, indem sie sich aus jenem Urnebel heraus bildeten. Aber in der allerersten Zeit, in der das entstand, wie eine Blütenkrone sich in den Weltenraum eröffnend, in der allerersten Zeit war diese Krone kaum sichtbar; man hätte sie nur so wahrnehmen können, daß man ihre Nähe gespürt haben würde wie einen kelchartigen Wärmekörper. Es war also zunächst ein Wärmekörper da. Noch als die Erde mit der Sonne verbunden war, fing das Innere dieses Menschengebildes an aufzuleuchten, und es strahlte Lichtstrahlen in den Weltenraum.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":207,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/106/1908-09-09/p008"},{"locus":"GA 106/1908-09-09/p009","passage_number":9,"text":"Wenn man dazumal als ein mit heutigen Augen sehendes Wesen wahrgenommen hätte, und sich einer solchen Leuchtform genähert hätte, so würde man etwas wie eine funkelnde, leuchtende Kugel, wie eine glitzernde Sonne, welche in glimmernden Strahlen in den Weltenraum funkelte, in regelmäßiger Gestalt gesehen haben. Kaum wird jemand heute noch ein klares Bild sich machen können von dem, was dazumal war. Er würde das nur können, wenn er dächte, daß unsere Erde bei ganz reiner Luft von lauter Leuchtkäferchen erfüllt wäre und diese ihr Licht hinaussendeten in den Weltenraum. So etwa würde der erste Ansatz vom Menschen in den Weltenraum geleuchtet haben, als die Erde noch mit der Sonne verbunden war. Und nicht nur das war vorhanden, sondern in derselben Zeit ungefähr gliederte sich außen um dieses Kelchgebilde eine Art Gaskörper. Es waren darin viele Substanzen aufgelöst, so wie heute auch im Tier- und Menschenleibe sich flüssige und feste Substanzen finden, die damals aber luftförmig waren. Bald aber, nachdem dies entstanden war, kamen aus der gemeinschaftlichen Erdenmasse auch noch andere Keime heraus, Keime, welche die erste Anlage wurden zu unserem heutigen Tierreiche. Das Menschenreich war also das erste, dann kamen die Keime, die die Anlage zum Tierreich wurden. Natürlich bestand noch die ganze Erde aus einer Luftmasse, aus leuchtenden und Licht aussendenden Körpern, die in den Weltenraum hineinleuchteten. Innerhalb dieser Luftmasse kam auch die erste Anlage geschlechtsloser Tiere heraus, welche auf der untersten Stufe des heutigen Tierreiches dazumal standen, und wir werden sehen, daß diese Tiere, die jetzt in ihrer ersten Anlage entstehen, auch eine gewisse Bedeutung für den Menschen erhalten haben.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":262,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/106/1908-09-09/p009"}],"english":["GA 106/1908-09-09/p010"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":469,"en_words":469,"ratio":1.0,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","reader"],"reader_german":["GA 106/1908-09-09/p008","GA 106/1908-09-09/p009"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.01,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":3678,"original_word_count":3628,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Norman MacBeth","identified_edition":"AP1971","book_title":"Egyptian Myths and Mysteries","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA106/English/AP1971/19080909p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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