{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 106/1908-09-09/p017","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"When the moon withdrew from the earth, sexuality appeared. The centaur-man was still sexless. Sexuality appeared when the sun stood in the sign of the Scorpion, and this is why we always connect sex with this sign. The Scorpion is what in the animal kingdom corresponds to the stage of evolution at which man stood when he had developed sexuality. In his upper half, man was turned toward the cosmic forces, but in his lower half he was a bisexual being. He had become a sexual being. 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Als der Mensch so aussah, war der Mond noch nicht aus der Erde heraus, da war die Mondenkraft selbst noch in der Erde. Da war im Menschen noch vorhanden, was früher sich gebildet hatte während der Sonnenzeit: die leuchtende Zirbeldrüse, die er damals wie eine Art Laterne auf dem Kopfe trug. Als dann der Mond aus der Erde herausging, da trat die Geschlechtlichkeit ein. Der Kentaurmensch war noch ungeschlechtlich. Die Geschlechtlichkeit, die eintrat, die trat ein, als die Sonne stand im Zeichen des Skorpions, und man bringt daher die Sexualität im Menschen in Beziehung zu dem Zeichen des Skorpions. Der Skorpion ist das, was bei der Tierheit der Entwickelungshöhe entsprach, als der Mensch bis zur Sexualität entwickelt war. Der Mensch war in seiner oberen Hälfte den kosmischen Kräften zugewendet, in der unteren Hälfte aber war er als zweigeschlechtliches Wesen vorhanden. Der Mensch war Geschlechtsmensch geworden. 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