43. Consciousness – Life – Form

These three planetary stages of development were now repeated in the first three earth cycles. During these, the human body was to prepare itself to transform into experiences the images that had formed during the moon consciousness. It had to become capable not only of harboring a life and image body within itself, but also of inwardly reflecting its environment in its images. On the moon, he had progressed so far that his images could be contemplated by the angels. The moon body of man was the environment of the angels. And they had also progressed at the same time in the contemplation of the moon man; they had struggled through so that they could now create at a higher level what they had perceived on the moon. After all, in addition to the two realms that were below them, they still had the beings of their own kind in their environment. After the developments on the moon had come to an end, they were able to imprint their nature on the human body. The human being on earth could then see this in his physical surroundings while inhabiting his body, which the angels on the moon could only see when they ascended to a higher world: their own kind.