Esoteric Lesson

In the early Lemurian times, when humans began to form physical bodies, this oxygen, the air of life, was not gaseous but liquid under the pressure conditions of that time. At that time, people drank oxygen. This element of life, oxygen, the embodied ether or life principle, thus became the prototype of the second element, the liquid, “water,” as it is called in occultism. 🜄 is the symbol for the element “water,” the ether or life principle, and oxygen. If there were only oxygen in our atmosphere, life would consume itself, it would happen too quickly, and humans would not be able to gain enough experience. Consciousness and soul qualities could not develop in the right way. The same can be seen in the sun, where beings are caught up in an extremely rapid pace of development that we humans cannot cope with. Plants would also continue to grow further and further if they were exposed only to the etheric or life principle. Here too, the astral must intervene as an inhibiting element, in this case from outside.