43. Consciousness – Life – Form

It was followed by the fourth, within which the earth environment itself had an effect on the ether body. This could only happen when beings gained influence over humans who had reached such a level in their development that they lacked the creative ability to influence the etheric body in the sense of fertilization, but who were nevertheless beyond merely receiving sensory impressions from the physical environment, just like humans. Those beings who had not ascended to the level of creative beings on the moon, that is, during the previous embodiment of the earth, were those who could populate the sun, but who had nevertheless reached the stage beyond which one can merely lead an inner life through the images of the human body. Within the evolution of the earth, they have the ability to perceive through the senses of man, but not to create these senses. These beings can... [breaks off]