IV. The Apocalypse and Theosophical Cosmology I

GA 90b/1905-01-30/p014 ·1905-01-30 · English HighHigh alignmentThis translation's paragraph count matches the German original — the locus maps cleanly to the same paragraph in DE.
Record: listeners' notes. Written from listeners' notes, summaries, or memory rather than a shorthand transcript. The wording is the note-taker's as much as Steiner's: weigh a single striking phrase here far more cautiously than the same phrase in a stenographic volume, and do not rest an argument on one word. Evidence: «Frühe Vortragsreihen und Einzelvorträge für Mitglieder in Berlin 1905–1906 nach ausführlichen und z.T. fragmentarischen Mitschriften.» (Early lecture series and single lectures for members in Berlin 1905-1906, from detailed and in part fragmentary listeners' transcripts.). The publisher's description of the volume, as mirrored on AnthroWiki (GA 90b); the description calls them "Hörermitschriften", and the served text carries the note-taker's gap marker "[Lücke in der Mitschrift]". The translation is the maintainer's, not a published one.

These three stages of development are not the only ones that our earth goes through. This astral globe was preceded by another, and the plastic one will be followed by another. While here [on the astral globe] the entities we are dealing with – including human beings – are in a substance that is equivalent to our astral body, here [on the globe that preceded the astral one] the human being and all entities, in fact the whole earth, are in a matter that is equivalent to the mental aura, the thinking body of the human being. On this globe, everything is dependent on external stimuli. But that does not appear in our astral matter. What lives here can never be seen, not even with the senses of a clairvoyant. There is only sound, which the 'clairaudient' can perceive. Everything is spiritual sound. The spiritual sounds buzz around on this globe in confusion and are the same as the intermingling colors on the astral globe. It is a globe that is called the Rupa globe. This is the form that we know on our Earth in the physical state in the air waves. So is the infinitely fine matter of which our thoughts are formed. Only thought-matter was present on earth at that time when it was in that state. This globe gradually passed into the astral globe through condensation. 'Rupa' means form.

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