Esoteric Lesson

Over a long period of time, an ever greater diversity developed from this point. In humans, all the characteristic properties of minerals, the physical “dead” world, are present, as are all those of plants—the world of life or the etheric world—and all those of animals, the astral world. If, for example, individual senses are perhaps more developed in animals, this is only due to a one-sided development of the animal at the expense of the versatility that we find in humans. This development toward versatility from the point is expressed by the first figure in the second row. The second figure, which is the same as the first, begins again with the point at the point of greatest development of the first. It is a general phenomenon of the life and developmental stream that, once full development has been achieved, something new begins to develop, starting again with a point (like the embryo of a child in the “mature” mother). Here, the beginning of spiritual development, the conscious unfolding of the I, is symbolized by the occult sign in Rosicrucianism. In the middle of the Atlantean epoch, the ego began to become conscious of itself in physically developed (and prepared) human beings; only a small, point-like light, on whose unfolding we must work more and more consciously.