IV. The Apocalypse and Theosophical Cosmology I

Above all, you will see the difference when you look at people. People are present on all three globes. On the first globe, people were in such a state that they were completely dependent on the external forces acting on them. People in our time, on our physical earth, have their hands, their legs, they can walk, can move, can move their mouths - today, all of this is at their own discretion. This was not yet present to the same extent on the astral globe; at that time, man was still much more of an automaton. He reproduced what external forces stimulated in him. He moved his hands because external stimuli affected him. He was at the mercy of external stimuli. This has changed, man has become more independent on the globe we call our earth. And that will be even more different when we will be on the third, the plastic globe. The physical body has disappeared, the earth is in dissolution, darkness has fallen. Then the human being will not only be able to move his limbs, but he will be able to shape his own form at will, so that the human being – while he has a permanent physiognomy today – will not be able to hide his feelings through his physiognomy. In his outer appearance, he will give an immediate impression of what lives within him. We will be able to extend our hands, not just move them. Man will be able to form himself plastically from within. His form will be the result of what lives within him. Life will express itself more in form.