43. Consciousness – Life – Form

In occult science, this humanity is called the third main Earth race. Actually, one can only speak of race formation from this point in time onwards. For only now did human reproduction occur, and with it differences within humanity, which were brought about by the interaction of human beings themselves. That which can be called inheritance and kinship arose. But now the earth, the fourth planetary form of development, had no influence yet. The perceptions of the surroundings had only taken hold of the images of the sentient body. The etheric body was not yet influenced by the earth's environment. The fourth planet had no influence on the inheritance conditions. Only the first three. Therefore, the race in which this was the case is called the third.