Esoteric Lesson

In the previous esoteric lesson, we saw how the matter of Saturn consisted of fire, of heat. The Saturn fire was dark, black. On the sun, this fire differentiated into air and light. Through the burning of the air, the old sun shone forth into the world space. Thus, a process of combustion took place. The old moon consisted of water matter. There were many drops swirling back and forth, which is expressed in the mercurial principle. The drops were separated from each other and arranged in manifold ways by the sound that penetrated the moon from the universe. In this way, the female principle came into being. On Earth, the part of the Earth's matter that dissolved in water was called salt. This is a significant fact in world history. Only on Earth could the male principle arise from the essence of the Earth's matter. And only from this could human beings develop as the crowning glory.