{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 112/1909-06-26/p010","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The modern doctrine of the origin of the world grew out of purely materialistic conceptions, and what it teaches is nothing but a materialistic fantasy; nor does it matter whether it is called the Kant-Laplace theory or, in the case of a later one, something else. For comprehending the outer structure of our world system these materialistic flights are undoubtedly useful, but they are of no avail in helping us understand anything higher than what the outer eye sees. Spiritual research shows that just as the human being passes from incarnation to incarnation, so a cosmic body like our earth has experienced other formations, other planetary conditions, in the remote past. Before our earth came into being it was in a different planetary state, the spiritual state science calls the “old *Moon*”.[^2] This does not refer to our present moon but to an ancestor of our earth as a planetary being; and just as the human being has developed from an earlier form of embodiment into what he is today, so our earth has developed from old *Moon* to *Earth*: the old *Moon* is a sort of previous incarnation of the *Earth*. Going still farther back: a previous incorporation of the old *Moon* was the *Sun*—again not the present sun but an ancestor of our present earth; and finally, the precursor of this old *Sun* was the old *Saturn*. Those are the states our *Earth* passed through: a *Saturn* state, a *Sun* state, and a *Moon* state, and now it has reached its earth state.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"3. The Metamorphoses of the Earth","site_heading":null,"date":"1909-06-26","location":null,"word_count":255,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/112/1909-06-26/p010","alignment_confidence":"low","alignment_reason":"count_diverges","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Samuel and Loni Lockwood","identified_edition":"AP1948","book_title":"The Gospel of St. John","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA112/English/AP1948/19090626p02.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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Um das äußere Gefüge unseres Weltsystems zu begreifen, dazu sind diese materialistischen Phantasien allerdings von Nutzen, aber sie taugen nicht, wenn wir das, was höher ist als die äußeren Augenbilder, begreifen wollen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":71,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/112/1909-06-26/p014"},{"locus":"GA 112/1909-06-26/p015","passage_number":15,"text":"Die geistige Forschung zeigt uns, daß ebenso, wie der Mensch von Verkörperung zu Verkörperung geht, auch ein Weltkörper wie unsere Erde früher in uralten Zeiten andere Gestaltungen, andere planetarische Zustände durchgemacht hat. Ehe unsere Erde geworden ist, war sie in einem anderen planetarischen Zustand. Sie war das, was man in der Geistesforschung den «alten Mond» nennt. Das ist nicht der heutige Mond, sondern ein Vorfahr unserer Erde als planetarische Wesenheit. Und ebenso, wie sich der Mensch von einer früheren Verkörperung in die heutige hineinentwickelt hat, so hat unsere Erde sich von dem alten Mond zur Erde entwickelt. Der alte Mond ist gleichsam eine vorhergehende Verkörperung der Erde. Wiederum eine vorhergehende Verkörperung des alten Mondes ist die Sonne, nicht die heutige Sonne, sondern auch wieder ein Vorfahr unserer heutigen Erde. Und endlich ein Vorfahr dieser alten Sonne ist der alte Saturn. Diese früheren Zustände hat unsere Erde durchgemacht: einen Saturnzustand, einen Sonnenzustand, einen Mondenzustand. 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