{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 123/1910-09-12_02/p006","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"To understand this in relation to the spiritual evolution of our planet, we will remind ourselves that in very early times of its existence the Earth was still united with the Sun. In a remotely distant past the Sun separated from the Earth. Anthroposophists know that this was not merely a separation of Earth-substance and Sun-substance in the material sense, but a separation of divine-spiritual Beings who were connected with the Sun or with the other planets. After the separation of the Sun from the Earth, certain spiritual Beings remained united with the Earth, whereas others remained united with the Sun; these latter were Beings who, because their development had progressed beyond the stage attainable in earthly conditions, could not complete their further evolution on the Earth. Thus certain spiritual Beings remained even more closely connected with the Earth, whereas other Beings sent their influences and forces from the Sun into earthly existence. After the separation of the Sun there are, as it were, two arenas—the Earth with its Beings and the Sun with its Beings. The spiritual Beings who can be helpers of man from a higher sphere are those who transferred their arena of activity from the Earth to the Sun. And from thence—from the Sun-sphere—come the Beings who from time to time unite with earthly humanity in order to lead the evolution of the Earth and of Man to further stages.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture XII","site_heading":"Divine Beings Descending: Christ as the Greatest Avatar","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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Nach der Trennung der Erde von der Sonne blieben mit der Erde gewisse geistige Wesenheiten verbunden, während mit der Sonne andere geistige Wesenheiten verbunden blieben, die, weil sie über die Erdenverhältnisse hinausgewachsen waren, ihre weitere kosmische Entwickelung nicht auf der Erde vollenden konnten. So haben wir die Tatsache, daß eine Art von geistigen Wesenheiten mit der Erde enger verbunden blieb, während andere Wesenheiten von der Sonne herein ihre Wirkungen in das Erdendasein sandten. Wir haben also sozusagen nach der Sonnentrennung zwei Schauplätze: den Erdenschauplatz mit seinen Wesenheiten und den Sonnenschauplatz mit seinen Wesenheiten. Diejenigen geistigen Wesenheiten nun, die dem Menschen aus einer höheren Sphäre her dienen können, das sind eben die, welche mit der Sonne außerhalb der Erde ihren Schauplatz verlegt haben. Und aus dem Bereich der Wesenheiten, die zum Sonnenschauplatz gehören, kommen diejenigen Wesen, die sich von Zeit zu Zeit verbinden mit dem Menschentum der Erde, um die Erdenevolution und Menschheitsentwickelung weiterzuführen. In den Mythen der Völker finden wir immer wieder und wieder solche «Sonnenhelden», solche aus der geistigen Sphäre in die Evolution der Menschheit hereinwirkende Wesenheiten. Und ein Mensch, der durchsetzt, durchdrungen ist von einer solchen Sonnenwesenheit, ist in bezug auf das, als was er uns zunächst äußerlich entgegentritt, eine Wesenheit, die eigentlich viel mehr ist, als sie uns zeigt. 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