IV. The Apocalypse and Theosophical Cosmology I

GA 90b/1905-01-30/p026 ·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.

There are methods by which the clairvoyant can transport themselves back to the astral globe and also forward to the plastic globe, the globe “Three”. When you place yourself in the state of astral clairvoyance and direct your thoughts to the point where the astral globe must be found, then you can see what it was like when our animals, plants and minerals were in this position. You can see it clearly before you. When you place yourself in such a state, in the state of an astral clairvoyant, you are not only united with, not only in the astral world you have visited, but you are also in the astral worlds that are related to the one you have visited, that are therefore in the same state. One is present in all cosmic bodies that are in the same state. In this respect, clairvoyants perceive space and time in exactly the same way. They make no distinction at all. When one projects oneself back to the globe that preceded our Earth, when one is on the planet, one is also on all planets that resemble the state of the Earth at that time. The clairvoyant is then actually on those planets that today belong to the planets of our solar system and are in this state. Not all planets are in the same state. Mars is physically today, but it is only at the stage of development at which our Earth was at the time when it was going through the astral state. The Earth was then able to solidify, to become physical. Today's Mars is in this position. It is at the stage of the third globe, but not astral, but physical. Now one can perceive what is present in this state. If you place yourself in this state of Mars, then you are not only on our Earth, but also on Mars.

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