XVIII. Occultism and Esotericism

GA 111/1908-03-06/p006 ·1908-03-06 · English MediumMedium alignmentSome paragraph re-numbering between this translation and the German original — the locus may slip by a paragraph or two.
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Our earth emerged from what we call the old moon in occultism. This was the predecessor of our earth. We can go back even further, and we then find the [previous] stage of development of our earth evolution embodied in what we call the sun in occultism: a very different entity from our present fixed star, the sun. A fixed star also emerges from an evolutionary process; every fixed star was once a planet. At that time, our earth was within [the sun] and formed a whole with it.

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