Esoteric Lesson

Once again, everything goes into the point, the seed is for the lunar state. There everything is further condensed into water. In many places, small globules form; these are independent, in perpetual motion, like mercury today, but not yet metallic. They are held back in their movement by sound (where this comes from will be explained later). Sound works in the same way as can be reconstructed today on Chladni's plate: the sound forms certain figures. And so the sound now acts on the watery globules [of the moon], so that a certain structure is created, with one first attaching itself to another, then two to two, and so on. This results in the greatest diversification of forms. (In the ice flowers forming on the window, the occultist sees the process that is repeated by the formative forces acting in the watery substance.) The grotesque moon beings arose through the action of the cosmic sound on the watery substance of the moon. The sound acted on the moon from outside—it feels like the feminine, receptive, formative. On earth, the feminine acts in such a way that through its forces the cells combine to form certain shapes, ears, noses, limbs of the emerging human body. The moon was a cosmic feminine. This existed before the masculine. The latter only arose in the earthly state.