4. The Beings of the Astral World

At that time, when we humans began our development, the ability of sensation was woven into our physical organism. Consider what wisdom is added to the chemical constitution of the physical body by the weaving in of sensations and feelings. To purify these sensations and feelings, to refine them into moral sensations, into moral feelings - that is the task of our earthly life. Just as we on earth have the task to form moral sensations and feelings, so it was at that time on the cosmos of wisdom, which preceded ours, the highest task of the beings to create a wise structure of the sense organism. The beings had to devote themselves to the formation of sensuality. Through infinite wisdom the functions of the senses have come into being.