43. Consciousness – Life – Form

When the third cycle of the earth reaches beyond its center, where the earth has become physical for the third time, there are initially no conditions for the existence of the form of the physical human body, which can receive external perceptions. The physical element decays. The consequence of this is that the omission sin of the remaining angels is no longer felt so painfully by the beings that have ascended to the sun. The moon is therefore re-incarnated into the earth body. And when the cycle continues, when the whole earth has ascended to a higher world through the existence of images, it also reunites with the sun. In this way, the forces in the human body that were only able to see the animated body in their environment in the third cycle acquire creative ability. This enables them to enter the fourth cycle. At first, they are still in a world that can only be perceived by spiritual consciousness, but they gradually descend to ever deeper worlds. Finally, the human body is ready to develop organs of perception for its own kind in a fine ethereal form. The physical body thus acquires the abilities of its earthly form. This is also the point in time when the earth can no longer be a place of activity for the perfected angels; the sun emerges with them from the earth and shines on it from the outside. The physical body continues to develop. The images of the image body acquire a vividness that was previously not their own; the organs of the physical body feed them in the mirror images of external objects. The time has come when the outer earthly environment snatches these images from the remaining angels. These have to draw the part of the earth that can be their dwelling place out of the earth. The moon separates again from the earth and orbits it as its satellite planet.