30. About the Zodiac and Man

Only after the Atma had moved into man in the sign of the Lamb or Aries, in the race of the personality, could man really stand on his own two feet in the sign of Pisces, the race of the free personality. The whole human being was now predisposed. In the first race, the Indian race, man lived in his feeling and in unity (Tao, Brahma and so on) - Atma (physical body). In the second race, the Persian race, he lived in duality (Ormuzd and Ahriman, good and evil and so on) - Atma (physical body) and Budhi (etheric body). In the third race, the Egyptian-Babylonian-Assyrian, the Chaldean, he lived in the Trinity (Isis, Osiris, Horus; Father, Son, Spirit, and so on) - Atma (physical body), Budhi (etheric body), Manas (astral body). In the fourth race (Romans, Greeks, Semites), he lived in the I, the tetrad - physical body, etheric body, astral body and the I. The sign of Aries signifies that there had been a descent that had to lead to an ascent, a turning point in the whole development of humanity, the beginning of a new epoch.