Esoteric Lesson

One image is that of the motherless human being. This is hinted at in the Bible as Adam, who had a father but no mother. The father forms him from the dust of the earth, that is, from forces contained in the earth. Thus, there is something in every human being that is not visible, a system of forces that belongs to the earth and is not directly given through the interaction of the sexes or through heredity, but is given by the divine Father through the detour of the paternal organism. Father and mother both give something supersensible; only that which comes through the mother is bound to the organism of her body, while that which comes through the father — indirectly through the paternal organism — is taken directly from the forces of the earth. Only the latter was in Adam; he was the motherless human being.