XVII. What is seen on looking back into Man's previous Lives between Death and the new Birth (I)

What had before resulted—a kind of Pre-Man, on Saturn, Sun and Moon—had no uniform shape. There were some pre-men of this kind with whom the organization tended more towards a limb-system—with others again, more towards a breast system—with others again, more towards the head. These were real men, nevertheless; they are only called pre-men here, to distinguish them from the alter stage, in which all the systems are seen blended together in the human form. The differentiation in these pre-men goes even further; one might speak of ‘heart-men,’ ‘lung-men,’ and so one.