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These happenings add details to what you can read in Occult Science. Man in truth belongs to the Cosmos, and it is he who prepares his earthly environment by casting off from himself the kingdoms of Nature and despatching them into the domain of the Earth where they form part of his environment. By sending these products of separation down to the Earth man was gradually able to equip himself with the faculties of thinking, feeling and willing. It was only in the course of time that he evolved into what he is today, an organic-physical being and able during his existence on Earth between birth and death to think and feel and will. He is connected with entities who, in order to further the evolution of humanity, have in the course of time separated from the human realm and in this separation have been metamorphosed into their present forms.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"5. Mineral, Plant And Animal Creation","site_heading":null,"date":"1923-12-01","location":null,"word_count":285,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/232/1923-12-01/p033","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"E. H. Goddard and Dorothy S. Osmond","identified_edition":"RSP1972","book_title":"Mystery Knowledge & Mystery Centres","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA232/English/RSP1972/19231201p01.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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Denn jedesmal, wenn so etwas abgesondert war, konnte die Menschheit nicht bei der Erde bleiben, mußte weggehen, um gewissermaßen die inneren Kräfte, die jetzt viel feinerer, seelischer Natur waren, erst zu verstärken. Dann kam sie wiederum herunter. Und so sind diese Vorgänge dasjenige, was eben genauer noch beschreibt das, was Sie in meiner «Geheimwissenschaft» lesen können. Diese Vorgänge sind also so, daß der Mensch, die Menschheit eigentlich dem Weltenall angehört und sich selbst die Erdenumgebung zubereitet, indem sie ihre Ausscheidungen, die die anderen Naturreiche sind, in den Erdenbereich hereinschickt. Da sind sie nun im Erdenbereich, da umgeben sie den Menschen. Und da kann der Mensch sagen: Indem er diese Ausscheidungen in den Erdenbereich hereingeschickt hat, hat er in sich allmählich dasjenige entwikkelt, was ihn als Erdenmenschen ausstattet mit Wollen, Fühlen, Denken. 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