43. Consciousness – Life – Form

The difference between the states of consciousness of the initiate and the states of consciousness of future human beings during the Jupiter, Venus and Vulcan developments lies in the fact that the former must rise to higher worlds in order to live in the corresponding consciousnesses, whereas future human beings will have them in the physical world. This is because the initiate of the present time forms corresponding organs of perception out of the forces of the higher worlds; in the future, equivalent ones will arise out of the physical environment in the physical body of man. Man can perceive as his environment precisely that world which provides the material for his organs. In the future, the physical environment will have formative forces that currently still belong to the higher worlds alone. Thus, the development of the world can be described as a succession of higher and higher physical embodiments. The earth is a fourth embodiment. Its physical structure enables it to impress the organs for clear day-consciousness on the human body. In the sense of esoteric science, it developed out of another physical state in which it could imprint on the body only the organs for dream consciousness. This state is designated by the name 'moon'. Thus the earth forms out of this 'moon' by acquiring a new faculty, namely, the development of the organs for waking consciousness. The 'moon' has come into being out of the 'sun'. That which has now become Earth was therefore then “Sun”. Secret science describes as the “solar state” the state in which the world body that is in a human body can only generate the organs for dreamless sleep consciousness. And before the Earth was “Sun” in this sense, it was at the stage of “Saturn”.