Thirteenth Lecture

This transformability was already less pronounced in animals, but it was still present; their physical bodies were much more solidified than those of humans, and transformation took place only very gradually. Animals were particularly transformable in terms of species, not in the sense that they inherited characteristics as stereotypically as they do today. So everything has become more and more solidified for the physical human body, I would say, cast into fixed forms since the Atlantean period. Today, humans still have the ability to move their hands and to display a certain range of facial expressions, but in a certain sense the form of their bodies has become fixed. And the forms of animals are completely solidified, which is why they show us rigidity in their physiognomy. This was not yet the case with animals to the same extent in the ancient Atlantean era.