43. Consciousness – Life – Form

What is the state of the human body at this point in time? It has developed its fourfold nature. It is organized in such a way that it can be the carrier of an etheric or life body, that it can house an image body. And in addition, its sense organs allow the earthly environment to be reflected in these images. The physical human body has now reached a completely new level. It reflects inward, just as it reflected outward the essence of the Saturn planet spirit on Saturn. As a result, that part of this spirit, which was then the lowest link of the same, can now live in him. This part therefore disconnects from the Saturn planet spirit; it loses the ability to receive the revelations of the upper realms and becomes the carrier of human self-awareness. Man learns to perceive himself as an 'I'. From now on, he bears within himself the nature that on Saturn the planetary spirit revealed like a circumference of the planet.