Thirteenth Lecture

Let us then make one thing clear to ourselves when we allow what we have learned about ancient Atlantis to pass before our souls: what is it like when we look at what lives around us today as the animal world, as the human world? All this was very different in the time of ancient Atlantis! Let us remember what we know in this regard. We know that it was only during ancient Atlantis that human beings descended as souls from the journey they had undergone in the star world. They first sought out human bodies again, which were formed for them from the material, the substance of the earthly world . And we know from the description that has been given how different these human bodies were in the Atlantean era. I have repeatedly pointed out — and you can also read about it in my writings — that the human body at that time was still soft, flexible, and malleable, so that the souls coming down from the heavenly worlds could still shape the bodies.