XVIII. Occultism and Esotericism

GA 111/1908-03-06/p007 ·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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Even earlier, the Earth was embodied in the ancient Saturn, which again has nothing to do with the planet currently called Saturn. This planet is related to the ancient Saturn in a certain sense, like a ten-year-old child to a forty-year-old person, who may well have been ten years old, but has not grown out of that age. We speak of Saturn in occultism in the same way that we always speak comparatively.

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