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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.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Esoteric Lesson","site_heading":"Divine Thoughts and Human Development: The Rosicrucian Cosmology","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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