43. Consciousness – Life – Form

But this was preceded by another important process. When the human body changed from an airy to a liquid consistency, the ability to absorb airy matter in a special organ was created at the same time. This marked the beginning of separate breathing. One must only realize that at that time the earth did not yet have a separate atmosphere. The substances that later formed the liquid and solid masses out of the common mass were still air-like themselves at that time, enclosed in the air. And when the liquefaction began, the human body did not live on solid ground, but in the liquid element. A kind of floating suspension was its locomotion. And the air above the liquid element was much denser than the later air. It contained not only all the later water, but many other substances in dissolution. Accordingly, the entire respiratory system of the human body was different.