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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.","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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