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It is taught that man lived on earth before any of the other kingdoms existed, at a time when there were no plants to dissolve the carbon in the human body. And since we know that man cannot exist without life-giving oxygen, there seems to be a contradiction here. However, at that time there was no atmosphere as we know it today; humans moved, so to speak, in a sea of flowing life, because oxygen was liquid at that time, as indicated by the second symbol, “water.” If only the element “earth” had existed, the human body would have hardened and could not have developed further. But when the second element, “water,” entered the body through external pressure, progress became possible.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Esoteric Lesson","site_heading":"Rosicrucian Symbols and the Evolution of Human Consciousness","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. 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