LXV. On the Apocalypse V

In this next root race, a great and significant event will occur. It is already prepared by the knowledge of good and evil, and it will be prepared to a higher degree during the sixth sub-race; for something quite different will occur then, and we must understand this if we want to understand the apocalypse. We remember that the way in which present-day humanity lives is not an absolute one, that it arose once, that it became sexual in the middle of the Lemurian race. It was only in the middle of the Lemurian period that this type of reproduction began in humanity, and also this type of living together, as it is in humanity now. What we now call birth and death only came into humanity then. Before that, the way life was lived was quite different. With birth and death, that individual karma came into being, as did reincarnation or re-embodiment. Everything we are now describing and recognizing as re-embodiment and karma and as the course of the individual human life between birth and death, only started in the middle of the Lemurian period. It was only then that people took on the form in which they currently embody themselves. Before that, they had other forms. This form, which once began, this passing through birth and death and this repeated embodiment, all this will also come to an end. Just as it began in the middle of the Lemurian period, so it will come to an end in the middle of the sixth root race. Then, in a part of humanity that will have already reached the corresponding level of development, in those who are called the firstfruits of humanity in the Apocalypse, the state that existed at a lower level before the Lemurian time will occur again. Then man was still asexual and not yet entangled in birth and death. This will come again after man has gone through his apprenticeship through the reincarnations. For him the time will come when he will again have, at a higher level, the spirituality that had previously been his at a lower level, but liberated from the physical form, the form that is directly present in the here and now.