Elemental Beings and European Cultural Development

Let us assume that here - where the Baltic Sea is now - there would be land and that here - where Russia is - would be sea. Only peninsular formations like Italy and so on would stretch out. The Gulfs of Bothnia, Finland and Riga would extend as far as the Caspian Sea, instead of us having Russian land here. Then we would have a seafaring people here, sailing these seas. But then the bodies would not be able to form here as they should. The being that stretches its tentacles over here would breathe out what these seafarers would receive, and they would develop their abilities prematurely, that is, at too early a time. They would develop too early that which should have waited for a later time. The spirit self must wait a certain time and must not be developed too soon. Therefore, there must not be a sea here, but the land must emerge to such an extent that the spirit self is not developed too early, but that there is still the possibility of receiving the inspirations of this great being. There must not be high mountains like the Alps, nor flat lands, only such elevations that the spiritual self is not received too early. There must be just enough land to produce the spiritual self: extensive, more flat land areas. If there were a seafaring people here, they would have developed the spiritual self long ago. But that would be immature, and development would occur at the wrong time.