The Rudolf Steiner Archive

Fifth Lecture

[ 1 ] We have seen how the conditions on our Earth took shape in its development out of the cosmos. We have seen how, in the distant past, our Earth was connected to what today shines down from the sky as the Sun, and how, at a certain point in time, this Sun separated from the Earth. Later, from that cosmic entity—which, after the Sun’s separation, still contained within itself what is now the Moon—the Moon, too, broke away; and yesterday we considered how this separation of an original unity into three celestial bodies is most intimately connected, in a spiritual sense, with the entire evolution of humanity and our cosmos. For along with the forces of the Sun, certain beings also emerged from our Earth’s mass—beings who had previously acted within our Earth, so to speak, from within, but who, since this separation of the Sun and the Earth, have been acting upon the various beings, and thus also upon human beings, from the outside. Consequently, all the conditions of human life on Earth have naturally changed; and later they changed again as a result of the Moon’s separation. So what we knew for a time as the Earth plus the Moon then underwent a new change due to the Moon’s separation. And the purpose of the entire evolution was, as we have seen, that if human beings had remained exclusively under the influence of the Sun’s forces, they would have embarked on a pace of development that was too rapid; on the other hand, if the Sun had separated entirely from the Earth and withdrawn its forces, the Earth’s further development would have proceeded in such a way that Earth’s beings—particularly human beings—would have become stagnant under the influence of the Moon’s forces. Thus, a balance is maintained with regard to human development.

[ 2 ] I have already pointed out to you that those entities who initially beamed their own spiritual power onto the Earth through the Sun, thereby bringing about the evolution of humanity, are the spirits of form, or the powers. They are, so to speak, the closest to the Earth’s development. The leader of these “powers,” along with his host, we might say, separated himself; after the separation from the Sun, he dwelt on Earth and later separated from the Earth along with the Moon. Thus, we first have a lunar deity, the deity whom the biblical record designates as Jehovah. Those other solar forces, however, which radiate their light from without and act as form-spirits, are called the Elohim—the spirits of light—in the biblical record. Under the influence of the Elohim on the one hand and Jehovah on the other, balance is maintained in human development. We have seen, however, that it is not only human beings who undergo development, but that all beings in the cosmos undergo their own development. Even those exalted beings who send us their powers through the light—the spirits of form—have also undergone their own development; they were once at a lower stage and have only now risen to their present level. What we have now said about the Elohim and Jehovah also applies to the most mature of these spirits, who have made themselves fully capable of continuing their development—from the time of the Earth’s formation onward—either on the Sun or on the Moon. But everywhere there are such beings who have remained behind at some stage. As we saw yesterday, planets such as Venus or Mercury owe their existence to the fact that certain beings have remained in a state of transition between human beings on the one hand and the exalted solar spirits on the other; they needed a dwelling place more exalted than Earth, but they could not inhabit the Sun because they were not yet mature enough for it. These are exalted beings who far surpass human development but have not yet attained the state of the solar spirits. They constitute a very important class of beings with regard to the development of humanity on Earth. So while we have the mature beings on one side, standing between them and human beings are the beings just described, whom we refer to collectively as Luciferic beings; we name them after the one who is, so to speak, their leader—the figure we call Lucifer.

[ 3 ] Now we must understand how Jehovah and the Elohim, on the one hand, and the Luciferic entities, on the other, are connected to human evolution. Through the interaction of the sun gods and the moon god, a duality arises, and we will understand what arises there when we observe how human evolution was in the past. Let us recall once more that the Earth underwent an ancient state of incarnation, that of Saturn; that then, after a period of rest, the Sun, then the Moon, and only then our Earth emerged from it. In terms of its evolution, the human being is connected to all these incarnations of our Earth; the human being as we encounter them today is a very complex being. Today, they consist of a physical body, an etheric body, an astral body, and the I. These four aspects of the human being interact in a very complex manner. A being that had only a physical body in our physical world would be a stone, a mineral; our mineral kingdom, in fact, has only a physical body here on Earth. A being that has an etheric body in addition to the physical body is of a plant nature; our plant kingdom consists of such beings. A being with a physical, etheric, and astral body stands on the animal level, and only a being that also possesses an “I” stands on our level here on Earth—the level of human existence. But this is only a very rough outline when we say that human beings today have these four members of their being. And just how rough this outline is will become clear to us when we take a look at the long, long evolution of the human being.

[ 4 ] We ask ourselves: Which of the four members of our human being is the oldest? — One might easily believe, since the human “I” initially appears to be the highest—that which makes a human being a human being in the first place—that this “I” is also the oldest member. But that is not the case. Neither the “I” nor the etheric or astral body, but rather the physical body is what human beings possessed first and foremost. This physical body was already formed in its earliest stage on ancient Saturn, but you must not imagine that it looked anything like it does today. If you consider the physical body of today, you first have solid limbs, a solid skeletal system—in short, components that we describe as solid; then there are also liquid components of all sorts of consistencies; furthermore, air-like and gaseous elements permeate the physical body in every direction; and finally, you find within it something that, from an occult perspective, is substantial warmth—inner warmth. Consider for a moment the human being in relation to his warmth and his surroundings. His warmth does not depend on his surroundings; he does not have to adapt to his environment like a mineral; in a cold environment, he does not become cold like a mineral, but carries within himself the source of his own warmth. Imagine removing from the human being everything that is solid, liquid, and gaseous; imagine the human physical body existing in space, formed from warmth—just as the warmth pulses in your blood—then you have what existed on ancient Saturn. Only it was not in the form it is today, but in its earliest embryonic stage. This was particularly the case in the middle of Saturn’s evolution. Saturn had an initial state, a middle state, and a final state. Describing the initial state would be very difficult, because few people have developed the ability to conceive of the properties Saturn possessed before it condensed to the point where it consisted of warmth. If you mentally transport yourselves back to those times of the distant past, you must not imagine that, had you been able to observe Saturn from somewhere in outer space, you would have seen anything of it. It had no light; Saturn did not shine. It was not until toward the end of its development that it began to glow. If you had been able to approach it in the middle of its development, you would have felt only that it was growing warm, like an oven—but one with no external boundaries, one that is self-contained: you would have entered a space of heat. You must not, however, imagine this body of heat as uniform. If you had a sense of differences in heat, you would find that there are lines of heat in all directions, on all sides; you would sense forms of heat. The whole of Saturn consisted of forms formed solely of heat, and these forms were the primordial blueprints of the physical human body. Saturn does not take this any further, even though it is fruitful for human development; later, as it wanes, it does take it further, but in a deeper sense, this is not fruitful for human development.

[ 5 ] Now let us turn to the evolution of the Sun. After a period of rest, Saturn transforms into the form of the Sun. Externally, in material terms, a condensation of matter has occurred at the midpoint of the Sun’s evolution. The Sun consists not only of heat, but also of gas and air—in the occult sense, therefore, heat and air. And once again, everything within the Sun undergoes its development within the conditions that can prevail in heat and air. First of all, the following occurs: the human being, who—when consisting solely of heat—could not yet take on an etheric body, is now permeated by an etheric body on the Sun, so that he consists of two members: the physical and the etheric body. But even on the Sun, this physical body is still quite different from what it is today. Let us try to form, even if only a rough, an idea of the physical body on the ancient Sun. Let us imagine that we have inhaled, that the inhaled air has entered us. So imagine the act of inhalation and its effect as a certain thermal effect. And now imagine everything else away except for the inhaled air, which, so to speak, replicates the entire human body in its effect—imagine everything else, both solid and liquid, away, and retain only the air and the warmth. So imagine that a form arises before you, such as the one that arises when you focus solely on the act of inhalation and its effect. Now follow the form of the inhaled air and the warmth contained within the human being; then you will have roughly the form that the human being had in the middle of the Sun’s evolution. You may now ask: If we have lines of warmth, and in addition gas currents that form this physical body, how does the clairvoyant perceive this gas in the Akashic Records? He perceives it as something quite definite. For when the heat condenses into air and no other conditions are present—unlike on Earth today, where the sun shines in from the outside—it begins to glow at the very moment the gas, the air, separates from the form of heat. Thus, you have fashioned the physical body on the Sun in such a way that it is a kind of embryonic form of heat and a form of gaseous air currents that glows in the most wondrous way and shines in the most varied colors. This entire solar sphere consists, first and foremost, of luminous bodies of heat, which are the primordial structure of our human physical body, and which are permeated by the etheric body. Humanity has ascended to a higher level; it has attained the etheric body in addition to the physical body. It is humanity itself that, as a part of the solar formation, radiates the luminosity of light out into the cosmos. The physical body has become a luminous body by incorporating the etheric body within itself. The physical body thus occupies the second stage of its perfection, while the etheric body—which has only just been imbued with light from the Sun—still remains at the first stage.

[ 6 ] Now let us continue to follow the human being. The Sun gradually transforms into the lunar body after having once again undergone a pause, a state of rest. Materially, this occurs as the airy form condenses into the aqueous: a liquid is formed. In fact, the ancient Moon was a liquid celestial body, and within it you would find, as malleable formations, the physical human bodies that now consist of flowing fluids, of aqueous constituents, within which—let us say—air currents circulate, just as respiration and heat currents do today. The physical body now consists of three elements: water, gas or air, and heat. And the former etheric body that he once had re-enters during this Lunar period, but now the human being is also capable of taking on the astral body, so that he consists of three parts: the physical, the etheric, and the astral bodies. Now, even during this Lunar period, it becomes impossible for all beings connected to the Moon to keep pace with one another in their development. Not only during our Earth’s evolution, but already in preparation during the Moon’s evolution, the Sun eventually emerges from the shared cosmic body; so that in the middle of the Moon’s evolution we have two bodies: the lunar body—Earth plus Moon—and the Sun, which has separated itself along with the most advanced beings, because these beings needed a more exalted setting for their further evolution. Consequently, as the finer forces and beings departed, the coarser ones remained on Earth, and this world body—Earth plus Moon—underwent, so to speak, a process of densification. We see, then, that even back then, during the ancient Lunar era, the Sun and its beings exerted an influence from the outside on the remaining lunar body for some time.

[ 7 ] Now it will be necessary to describe this remaining body to you in a little more detail, for we have, after all, undergone part of our evolution through it. On Saturn, there was only the physical body; human beings had the status of minerals. On the Sun, human beings rose to the status of a plant, for they possessed both a physical and an etheric body. However, certain beings remained behind, having failed to ascend to the human-plant existence on the ancient Sun but instead remaining at the Saturn stage. These are the precursors of certain animals found today. You see, in terms of their past, modern humans trace their origins back to the ancient Saturn, whereas it was not until the Sun that the precursors of some of our modern animals appeared as a second kingdom alongside humanity. For the same reason—the lagging behind of certain beings—humanity, which had worked its way up to a threefold being on the Moon, was surrounded by two other kingdoms: by a kingdom that had remained at the plant stage on the Moon—the precursors of our present-day animals—and by that which was still at the mineral stage on the Moon, the precursors of our present-day plants. What is a mineral today did not yet exist on the Moon; it arose at the very latest as a byproduct of the other kingdoms. Of course, anyone who asserts such things knows full well that it is nonsense to speak, in today’s sense, of plants arising without the foundation of a mineral kingdom; but conditions were quite different in the past. In fact, on the ancient Moon, human beings developed, so to speak, within the animal kingdom, animals within the plant kingdom, and plants within the mineral kingdom; and when the Moon separated from the Sun, all the kingdoms underwent a shift that took place in the following manner.

[ 8 ] When we think of the ancient Moon, the three realms mentioned above are present first and foremost:

1. the human kingdom—actually the animal kingdom, consisting of a physical, etheric, and astral body;
2. the animal kingdom—actually the plant kingdom, consisting of a physical and etheric body;
3. the plant kingdom—actually the mineral kingdom, because it has only a physical body.

[ 9 ] So our present mineral kingdom does not yet exist. When the Moon and the Sun separate, the entities and forces of the Sun are completely freed from the coarse substances of the Moon and can thus act with even greater intensity. As a result, all three kingdoms are raised to a higher level. What constitutes the human astral body is lifted out of its intimate connection with the physical and etheric bodies, so that when you imagine a human being with his physical, etheric, and astral bodies at the beginning of the Lunar era, you will later perceive a significant change: As the Sun emerges and begins to shine from the outside, the astral body and the etheric body are partially liberated. The result of this is that something comes into being that you must imagine something like this: Imagine for a moment that modern human beings consist of a physical body, an etheric body, and an astral body, and now an external force were to come along and drive out the astral body and the etheric body; then, to the clairvoyant, your astral body and your etheric body would be present outside of you. You yourself, however, would be raised half a step higher by the fact that these two bodies are freed from the weight of the physical body. And something like this happened back then as well. Human beings were also raised; they became beings situated right in the middle between modern humans and modern animals, but who were spiritually guided and directed by the sublime solar powers. Likewise, the other two kingdoms were raised a little, so that in the middle of the Moon’s evolution we do not have our present-day kingdoms, but rather intermediate kingdoms: a human-animal kingdom, a kingdom situated between animal and plant, and a plant-mineral kingdom. And just as our minerals form the solid ground on which we walk, so the beings of the ancient Moon walked upon what was the lowest realm of the Moon—the plant-mineral realm. This fundamental substance of the Moon was not, as on Earth today, a mineral substance, but a kind of semi-living being. If you were to imagine something today like a peat bog, or like boiled lettuce or cooked spinach—a kind of pulp, but alive and bubbling—then you would have roughly an idea of what the fundamental substance was back then. And it was not rocks that protruded from this mass, but formations such as wood, compacted plant matter, and horn-like structures; these were the equivalents of today’s rocks at that time. And to the clairvoyant eye, it appears as though one was walking on a plant-mineral foundation that had undergone a process of densification—and these are the rocks. From this, more or less firmly rooted, grew the animal-plants, much more mobile than they are today; they grew out of the viscous element, and they possessed a kind of sensation when touched. And from the finest substances emerged the animal-man, who by no means extended down into the coarsest substances, but whose physical body was composed of the finest substances. And this physical body, which was in a state of constant transformation, looked quite strange; a human head such as humans have today—the clairvoyant cannot discern such a thing on the ancient Moon. In the physical body—no matter how soft and fluid it may be—the clairvoyant perceives only animal-like head shapes, and what protrudes from this animal-like head shape is the etheric and astral bodies. To the physical eye, therefore, all animal-men had the most diverse forms, reminiscent of animals—but only reminiscent—and only when one ascends from physical sight to astral vision does one perceive the higher nature of this lunar animal-man. Such is the population of the ancient Moon.

[ 10 ] When we look into the depths of human cultural development—insofar as it is of a spiritual nature—we find in many places that the myths and legends handed down to us are, in many respects, wiser than our modern science. And when humanity once again recognizes the spiritual foundation of the world, it will discern in many myths, legends, and fairy tales a profound wisdom—deeper than that of our seemingly so advanced science. Let us once again imagine the ancient Moon, where only the ancient animal-plant can thrive, and turn our gaze away for a moment from the Moon’s further evolution. Let us be clear that all these lunar beings were the precursors of our present-day human beings. From the mineral-plants, through a descent, our present-day mineral kingdom arose; from the animal-plants, our present-day plants; and from the animal-humans who remained behind—those who did not advance—for the most part, our present-day animals. Thus we see how our present-day minerals, plants, animals, and human beings are truly descendants of those ancient lunar beings. Now, there are very peculiar plants today that do not thrive in mineral soil—for example, mistletoe. It is so peculiar because, to the clairvoyant eye, it appears very different from other plants. It reveals, in fact, something of an astral body which, as with the animal body, penetrates into the mistletoe. Although it has no sensation, it reveals something of the outer form of the animal being. This stems from the fact that it belongs to those plant-animals of the Moon that have been left behind; they are now unable to develop plants and therefore cannot thrive in mineral soil. They were unable to progress that far, and so they require other plants into which they can sink. Mistletoe has remained true to the ancient lunar custom. The ancient ancestors of the European peoples knew this, and they initially embodied it in a wondrous mythological construct. These ancient Germanic and Nordic peoples saw in Loki a force that still belonged to those ancient lunar powers which had found their way from the ancient lunar realm to our Earth. When the Earth became Earth, it came under the influence of those forces that these ancient peoples symbolized in the god Baldur. He represents all the forces that acted upon the mature Earth beings. However, those entities on our Earth that remained behind at the lunar stage feel a deep kinship with the one who belongs to the god of the Moon, Loki. This is the origin of the wondrous legend that once, when the gods were playing, all beings swore an oath that they would not harm Baldur—only the mistletoe did not take this oath. Why? Because it is not related to the earthly forces embodied in Baldur; it is degenerate, a backward creature of the Moon. It can harm the fundamental force of the Earth, Baldur. Loki must make use of a being that belongs to him. This legend arose from the depths of the secret interconnections of the worlds. And when we realize that, in many respects, that which resists healthy development must serve precisely unhealthy development, then we understand that it was a great, wise intuition on the part of our ancestors that led them to seek particularly healing powers and sap in the mistletoe. They knew what we have just discussed; hence the esteem in which the mistletoe has always been held. This is an example through which we can see how the wisdom of world development is hidden in legends and myths.

[ 11 ] Because, so to speak, a part of the etheric and astral bodies was drawn out of the animal-man on the Moon, this already gave rise to the necessity for a shift in consciousness on the ancient Moon. And now we must speak of another development that is taking place in parallel with this one. Each of these stages of development on Saturn, the Sun, the Moon, and the Earth is at the same time a stage in the development of consciousness. On Saturn, consciousness was very dull; it was the first stage. Our consciousness during dreamless sleep—the kind possessed by the eternally sleeping plant world—is already clearer than what humans had on Saturn, which can be compared to the consciousness of minerals. It was not until the Sun that humanity rose to a level of consciousness akin to that of plants, and because humanity received the astral body on the Moon, its consciousness rose yet another degree higher, to what we call image consciousness. We can compare it to today’s dream consciousness only in a certain sense, for our dreams have meaning only in exceptional cases. But on the Moon it was different. The rising and falling images that appeared to human beings there had meaning. When another being approached him, he could not perceive its outer form or color, but he felt something welling up within him, just as a person does today in a dream; an image of the being’s inner nature arose within him, and depending on the color and character of this image, he knew whether the being was friendly or hostile toward him, and whether he should stay or flee.

[ 12 ] But, as I said, there was already a shift in consciousness on the Moon during the time when the Sun was outside; there were times when consciousness was more vivid, and times when it was more subdued. Today, day and night alternate. Today, in the morning, a person enters their physical and etheric bodies; through this, the world of external objects and beings appears before them. It becomes light and bright around them as they make use of their senses. But then, when he goes out in the evening with his I and his astral body, he initially has no means of perception; it grows dark around him. Thus, the dreamless sleep consciousness—which was first bestowed upon humankind on the Sun—alternates with waking consciousness, with earthly consciousness. This had already been prepared on the ancient Moon. Even then, the etheric body and the astral body were not constantly separated from the physical body; rather, there were times when they sank into the physical body. For the ancient Moon was already orbiting the Sun, and this revolution caused human beings to be illuminated by the Sun at times and not at others. This caused the etheric body and the astral body to move in and out of the physical body. Of course, the contrast between these states was not as pronounced as it is today. When a human being on the ancient Moon moved outward—when he was illuminated by the forces of the Sun—he was in a state of bright consciousness, a spiritual consciousness; he perceived the spiritual intensely. And when his etheric and astral bodies sank into the physical body, his consciousness darkened—you see, it was the opposite of today. Thus, on the Moon, over much, much longer periods of time, states of light and dark consciousness alternated, and it was during these states of dark consciousness that, without the human being’s knowledge, the process known as fertilization took place. In order to develop the capacity for reproduction, to bring about fertilization, and to give birth, the human being’s higher being descended into his physical body, and when the process was complete, it ascended again into the higher world. What has fully developed on Earth was prepared step by step. And because the Sun had separated itself—and because it had endowed its beings with greater power—human beings, and all other beings, were able to develop to a higher level. For if the solar forces had continued to be hindered by the old Moon, they would not have been able to act with such power. Now they themselves were freed from the hindrance of the lunar substances, and as a result, the Moon, with all its beings, advanced so rapidly that after a certain time it had attained the maturity to be reabsorbed by the Sun. A state arose in which all the separated celestial bodies could be reabsorbed, in which they together entered a spiritual, restful state that we call Pralaya. And then, after this pause, what we might call the first etheric germ of the Earth’s body emerged once more, from which everything later separated again.

[ 13 ] And now let us ask ourselves: Where does the physical body on Saturn come from, where does the etheric body on the Sun come from, and where does the astral body on the Moon come from? — The student of spiritual science does not ask such philosophically clumsy questions, unlike many who believe they are asking philosophical questions. There are people who ask: Where does this or that come from? — and when you answer, they keep asking, over and over, without end. One does this only as long as one has not yet risen to a spiritual contemplation of the world. Reasonably speaking, one must eventually reach a point with one’s questioning where the meaning of the question comes to an end. Imagine you find ruts in the road surface. You ask: “Where did these come from?”—The answer is: “A car drove through them.”—Now you can ask further: “Where did the car come from?”—One might answer: “It was used by a person who had a specific business.” - Now, of course, you might ask: “Where did that business come from?” — But eventually you will reach a point where the questions come to an end, where you stray so far from the subject that you enter an entirely different realm. If the meaning of the questioning begins with an idea, then—as long as one remains in the abstract—one arrives only at endless questions. But in concrete observation, one ultimately arrives at spiritual entities, and then one no longer asks: Why do they do that? — but rather: What do they do? — To do this, one must first train oneself to recognize the limits of questioning.

[ 14 ] Thus, occult observation tells us that once, when ancient Saturn began to form, certain spiritual beings radiated the fundamental substance of Saturn—heat—from their own substance as a sacrifice. They had reached such a state of maturity that not only did they no longer need to take in anything as nourishment, but they were even capable of sacrificing their own substance, of pouring it out. These are the Thrones. These Thrones poured out their substance during the ancient Saturn era, and it is they who, through their sacrifice, form the foundation of the physical human body. Anyone who observes this physical body on Saturn from an occult perspective says: It has flowed forth from the substance of the Thrones. We see that this physical body has been transformed from stage to stage, having developed to a higher level, but what we have within us is always the transformed substance of the Thrones. Then we move on to the ancient Sun. There, the etheric body joined the physical body. Here, too, it is spiritual beings standing below the Thrones whom we call the Spirits of Wisdom, the Kyriotetes. On Saturn, they had not yet reached the stage where they could radiate their own essence; on the Sun, however, they had reached that stage, and the substance of the etheric body flowed from their bodies. Since the time of the Sun, we have carried within our etheric body the substance of the Spirits of Wisdom. On the Moon, the astral body was added. Once again, it is spiritual beings who sacrifice their substance: the Spirits of Movement, the Dynameis, or Powers. And finally, we pass from the Moon to the Earth; there, another being pours its power into us, and we attain the “I”; the “I” is added to the three other bodies. This “I” is bestowed upon us by the spirits who guide cosmic evolution—the spirits of form, the Powers or Exusiai. We encounter these Spirits of Form again here: they are the Elohim, who radiate their sunlight upon us, and Jehovah, who shapes the human spirit from the lunar side. Here we see them working together—the Spirits of Form—who, coming from outside, gave humanity the predisposition for its “I.”

[ 15 ] Thus, we see certain spiritual beings becoming integrated into human evolution step by step: on Saturn, the Thrones; on the Sun, the Spirits of Wisdom; on the Moon, the Spirits of Movement, or Dynameis; and on Earth, the Spirits of Form: Jehovah and the Elohim. It is all these beings who have given human beings their present shape and form, who have allowed their own essence to flow into them. The biblical text clearly points out how the essence of one of the Spirits of Form flowed into the essence of the human being. A profound mystery lies behind what is written in the Torah. Imagine that one of the spirits of the Elohim, as Jehovah, united with the moon, and that from there, as a spirit of form, he worked to make humanity what the divine form bestows upon it: God formed humanity in his image; he gave it the form of the gods. — It is the spirits of form who gave humanity its human form—that is, the divine form. The Elohim pour the power of the sun down upon the earth in the light. The God Jehovah has renounced the outer garment, the outer form of light; as a dark God, he flows into the earth, confining himself to the time between birth and death. Through the air, which the light permeates, the spirits of the air join him. Thus, when we seek to form a picture of what flows from the sun to the earth—both spiritually and physically—we see how the sun’s rays are absorbed by the earth and reach humanity, and how these rays also bring with them what flows to us from the spirit of Jehovah: to this is added that which lives in the air as the spiritual. And this moment—when Jehovah allows His power-filled presence, a fragment of the divinity of Jehovah, to flow into human beings—is referred to in the words of the Bible: “And Jehovah breathed into the man the breath of life, and he became a living soul.”

[ 16 ] We must realize that we have to take such words quite literally, that we must read what is actually written there. And shivers of awe run through us when we begin to understand such a word; when we grasp the meaning of this statement, which proclaims to us that, after the thrones, the spirits of wisdom, and the spirits of motion had infused their essences into human beings on Saturn, the Sun, and the Moon, now the spirits of form, too, have, as it were, entered into them on Earth. It is this great, momentous moment that is expressed in the biblical words.

[ 17 ] And now we will continue to see how these Elohim and Jehovah worked together with the Luciferian entities throughout the Atlantean period and up to the present day.