43. Consciousness – Life – Form

This is how esoteric science presents the development of the world in which man passes through his successive stages. And it designates these stages of development by names, which have then been transferred to the planets surrounding the earth as designations. The stage of development at which man stood with the most dull consciousness is called Saturn development; the second, in which man lived with the consciousness of dreamless sleep, as solar development; the third, in which dream consciousness appeared, as lunar stage; the fourth, the present one, in which man has struggled to the point of clear day consciousness, as earth development. And the stages of the future, on which the levels of consciousness that are currently attained by initiates in higher worlds will find their physical expression, are successively called the Jupiter, Venus and Vulcan developments.