43. Consciousness – Life – Form

As long as the earth was connected to the sun, the sun's power was what regulated the other effects in the human body. The solar force contained what worked simultaneously as male and female in the human body. And under its influence, the absorption and release of heat emanating from Mars also acquired law and order. When the sun moved out, certain human bodies began to change in such a way that they became infertile. These were the forerunners of the later male natures. As long as the lunar forces were still connected to the earth, the other part retained the ability to self-fertilize. With the moon's withdrawal, it lost it. From now on, the sun was at work, and the beings who now inhabited it, the angels, worked on the ability to reproduce. The male etheric body came under the influence of these sun beings. The female etheric body, which is male, retained its relationship to the beings whose realm had become the moon. Accordingly, the woman's physical body came under the influence of the sun's forces. After all, it had developed the form corresponding to it when the sun was already shining on the earth from the outside. The male physical body, on the other hand, came under the influence of the moon because it had taken on its form, which is infertile in terms of reproduction, under the influence of the planet still united with the earth. Alongside all these processes, the senses are developing at the same time, bringing the world of images of the sentient body under the influence of the earthly environment and thus placing the human being under the influence of the descendants of the Saturn planetary body. Furthermore, the pulsating power of the blood is developed within, whereby the soul is formed and, with the sensory perceptions, an inner life, sympathy and antipathy with the environment can develop.