43. Consciousness – Life – Form

In the fifth cycle, the planetary spirit of Saturn could not function as a soul in the way characterized if it remained within the body of Saturn. For the nature of the latter does not permit such a thing. The Saturn spirit must therefore step out of the body of Saturn and act upon it from the outside. Thus, in this cycle, a separation of Saturn into two celestial bodies takes place. Of these, however, the one that has emerged can be described as the soul of Saturn. It is, as it were, the prophetic prefiguration of the next planetary embodiment: the sun. Thus, during its fifth, sixth and seventh cycles, Saturn is orbited by a kind of sun, just as the Earth is currently orbited by its moon.