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The inventor has an idea in his head – for example, of the clock – then he searches for equipment. When the clock is ready, he knows how it is made, he has knowledge of the clock. The idea has preceded, [followed] by the execution in physical fact. The idea was drawn from the mental plan, then transferred to the physical plan. Let us assume that the watchmaker has died. Another, in order to imitate the clock, must take it piece by piece and then study the laws in order to form others. So first there is contemplation, then the idea is derived in order to form. So there are two ways of creating knowledge: where the idea originally lies or where it is derived from contemplation.

In the cosmic, everything is based on the idea. We call it 'Mahat', the universal spirit, after which all physical things are composed. The beings who are in place of the watchmaker cannot yet work on the physical plane. 'Dhyanis', they have the ideas for the physical plan, they would teach others, like the inventor, if he had not died immediately.

Two types of teaching: the original type of teaching, that the purely spiritual natures - dhyanis - immediately transfer the ideas into the mental, of the preceding race; a teaching by direct transmission of intuition. The first people were thus taught as one is taught by the creators; later as one is taught by those who have learned from objects of the physical plan. A remnant of this kind of direct influx is also contained in nature. The way beavers build their dams today, in such a way that an engineer could not build a better one with all his ingenuity. The beaver has this kind of receptivity in a degenerated state. There was a time when people also received wisdom and built their dams in this way. Lake Moeris, no longer in existence, but once artificially built in Egypt, with a sewage system that could not be invented today. Mankind was once more capable, but in a different way, in that they could not record it in mathematical forms in abstract, but in symbolic forms. An immediate flowing in of the Mahat; a drawing out of the physical plan Manas from Mahat.

Today, one has to carefully calculate how to lay beams; at that time, he could do more in terms of teaching; the direct telepathy from person to person - an influx of will into the pineal gland. Among ancient peoples, there are still similar institutions that seem senseless: [Couvade,] the husband's childbed. The opinion that this has a correspondingly favorable meaning for the child comes from the time when the psychic powers were still vividly active, so that the psychic processes on the part of the man worked just as the physical processes did on the part of the woman. [Couvade:] a resting, concentrating of the father's psychic powers for the good of the child.

There is a descent, a different kind of transmission of knowledge and will, and it must be reclaimed from below. No reception was needed from the senses at that time to receive Mahat; so the leader of the race does not need a refined organ of the mind, but the third eye. This is the organization of the human lion. He is more differentiated; spirituality on the one hand, animal nature on the other.

The teaching from below begins – spirituality has become coarser. It begins with the feeling; Mahat begins to penetrate from the outside. Through the senses, the world mind flows in. This makes the outer impression a reason for him to reflect. His mind is still very limited, a first stirring; the human being who then stands at the highest level, the leader, will read the writing of the world spirit everywhere, but he does not yet have memory. This dwarfish spirit, who looks up at the firmament - and deduces astrology from the impressions of his senses - is symbolized as an avatar, by the dwarf: the first looking at Mahat from the mind. One forgot immediately, but saw to the bottom, not pondering, thinking, but looking.

Astrology and alchemy, the refraining from the object, what it has for laws.

1. So first Mahat comes from outside through sensation, develops inside.

2. Through the imagination, where he holds on to the sensation through memory; man will only receive Mahat when he approaches it through the imagination.

This has two stages, namely the absorption of Mahat in the imagination.

The development of Rama: first the Rama of the center and secondly that of the developed imagination.

The next thing is that the person is already forming concepts.

For example, belladonna: the concept is formed on the basis of external experience. Belladonna is not edible; concept: where there is such a substance, the object is not edible.

Avatar – Krishna, who fills the world with ideas that apply to the physical plane, can be applied everywhere, are tailored for him, although they are far above him.

After man has grown to the point of forming ideas, wisdom reveals itself again, the source of the ideas from which the world flowed. He perceives the idea itself: the Buddha as a guide, suitable for a humanity that lives entirely on the physical plane, but is already ascending to spirituality.

Mythology, the starry sky viewed by the sage, populated, degenerates into idolatry and rises on the other side as a doctrine of ideas.

The purity of the Bhagavad Gita, imbued with ideas and leaving mythology, degenerates into mysticism on the one hand and rises to wisdom on the other – descending to complete materialism and mechanism, ascending to Christianity.

There is a tremendous difference between the mental structure of these three. We omit the first Rama, the Axe, who esoterically still belongs to the Atlantean race. This second Rama has a Buddha-mind, but it appears through Manas, wisdom.

Budhi is the source of wisdom, revelation, inspiration - no matter where it comes from. Let us imagine a drop of mercury in a beautiful geometric figure. Mercury is its figure; the way it is arranged is its form. So wisdom can be seen as a whole, but arranged in the different systems of the cosmos. One could know all one's knowledge in one sentence, then this synthetic knowledge would be Budhi and Manas (d/gap in the transcript).

Manas is Budhi in a certain arrangement.

Now, Christian esotericism calls the 'summary' 'the word' and the 'arrangement' the 'Holy Spirit'. Indian esotericism calls the Word 'Budhi' and the Holy Spirit 'Manas'.

Legend: All esotericists knew that all “knowledge” could be summarized in a 'sun of knowledge'. The esotericist has the one word in which everything is compressed - he derives everything else from this word. The inspirer on whom a religious system is based goes - according to legend - into the temple to take possession of the word. Jesus entered the temple, cut himself, took the word, hid it in his body and now practiced the word. This is an example.

Let us imagine the image of mercury. The sphere is the same as the droplets, only in arrangement. You can separate them — Budhi distributed in Manas — and also bring them together. Let us imagine that the knowledge of the cosmos has been handed over to a being as astrological knowledge, so that he is able to gain a wise insight into the world. Such a being is Rama, who received this knowledge in its synthetic unity. He was, as it were, the general of knowledge.

Let us consider someone who does not receive knowledge as a unified whole, but rather knowledge already distributed throughout the world, no longer the word, but the Holy Spirit: Krishna. With regard to the individual, Krishna also speaks in the Bhagavad Gita. Rama is not the great conqueror of the world, gently leading by the hand. Krishna is already the teacher.

Let us go a little further. Summarizing what has been scattered. The unity from above summarized from the details.

Buddhism came about by pointing to a section of the world: This and that is applicable to it. Buddhism is tailored to the spirit of the Indian people. Rama knowledge is tailored to the whole world.

These were the avatars of the fifth race. We have characterized the Budhi knowledge. Buddha is thus the Budhi teacher for Manas, for the sacred spirit. The task now is to introduce this teaching into the physical plan. [Buddha] is the teacher sent by the deity. If a teaching is to be incorporated into the physical plan, it must arise from the feelings, perceptions and kama-manasic thinking of the people themselves; for example, Zoroaster and Hermes were sent, not grown out of. At some point, a people had to have their own inspirer, and that was only possible if a chela like Jesus of Nazareth [gap in the transcript]

So we tailored the knowledge to the individual personality, which in turn becomes international again. This is the cosmic significance of Christianity. He tried to give something to man as a human being. He was therefore not only the “way” like Krishna - instruction - and not “truth” like Buddha - summary - but “life”. He therefore did not write anything down. He lived the things, independently of the national coloring that is given in the language. Exemplary life, center and focus for the new confession, which is to be sought in belonging to Him. A gathering of the confessors around the personality is necessary. Not only must I understand what He teaches, but in life one must be united in Him. We have laid our hands in His wounds.

The disciples bear witness.

This explains the mystical union of Christ with Jesus. To be united in Christ is life.

In the case of Buddha, Budhi and Manas incarnated from the very beginning, and it did not depend on the personality. In the case of Christ Jesus, the personality came into its own in mystical union.

The Christian community of incarnated Christs is also a body of personalities. According to the Indian model, the figure of Christ, who incarnated for three years, is not found on the devachan plan. There is another plan.

Behind the ecclesiastical community lies the continuously incarnated Christ, our Maitreya, not in human form, but in us. He sanctifies Christianity without knowing anything about incarnation, not as a personal avatar but by living out his life in Christendom and in all that it achieves. Maitreya – the tenth avatar – is still awaited by the Indians, and revered by Christians as their mystical brother. That is why Buddhism kills off personality; the [Buddhist] becomes an ascetic. Christianity elevates personality, fulfills what the Greeks dreamed of, the earthly paradise.

Individual Christians are like cells, hence the balance through saints who atone for criminals. Therefore the church is the substance, the body for the Maitreya Jesus of Nazareth, who understood; always incarnated to accomplish the right thing. - The Christ - the soul.

It is only in the sixth race that the Christ will really take on his outer form; all so united that the individual does not separate his good from that of the whole.

When we now consider separateness and union, we must do so in contrast to the earlier unity. The present-day unions will represent something where the individual members are - the goal is the soul.

Christianity should strive for this brotherhood. The White Lodges are advanced posts, undertaking various tasks but working together. They are the cores around which individuals group themselves. At the end of our planetary development, there will be seven such lodges, with one goal, harmonious. These cores remain, go through a pralaya and appear as the seven leading spirits of future development. These are called by the Hebrew teaching 'Elohim', and one is Jahve - Lord of the Form.

Thus, in Christianity, not a national deity is embodied, but a unifying one that leads to the new development. It indicates the turning point, down into physical development and back up again - therefore has a cosmic significance -, contains the teachings of the others all, but can only be understood in its connection with the cosmos.

Nothing in the world is accidental. Every age, every people, every person has certain tasks. The present root race has the task of developing the human mind and everything connected with it: calculating, building machines.

The mind is essentially tied to the personality. In earlier root races, something else was important, even with the Egyptian pyramids, for the construction of which people sacrificed their entire lives. They were firmly convinced of reincarnation. And in this firm belief, the workers willingly did everything that was required of them. That was what remained from earlier times for the beginnings of the root race.

As long as individuality was not yet in the foreground, other forms of religion were needed, and other cultures were to be found. The present root race with the culture of the mind of the personality goes back ten thousand years.

The first sub-race was the one that had settled in the Indian peninsula. The second race in Persia spread over the earth. The third was the Egyptian. The fourth, the Roman, adopted Christianity. The fifth is the Germanic-Anglo-Saxon, the sixth will be the Slavic and the seventh will be the American. This will found an empire that will encompass the entire earth, but will be short-lived and, like the Chinese, will be followed by another, more powerful one.

The preceding Atlantean culture was quite different. The main center was on the floor of the present Atlantic Ocean, but extended over other areas.

We have to imagine the Atlanteans as being totally different from us.

The first Atlanteans, about a million years ago, had no minds at all, but they had very developed memories. When one ability comes to the fore, others recede. Because, as development progressed, the combining mental activity had to come to the fore, memory receded.

He had no rule, but the image that emerged in his mind was the decisive one. They told people important things that could be encountered in characteristic images, not rules. That is why they were very conservative. A young person could not have reached a high position because one had to have a lot of experience behind one. Everything we have similar to an Areopagus still comes from Atlantis.

All the forces that were closer to nature, as with undeveloped people. They could use, for example, life force or plant seed power. Coals contain stored heat, which is used to heat locomotives. Just as steam heat is converted into motive power, so the energy can be extracted from piles of cereal grains. The Atlanteans had a small type of airship that used the converted vril power as motive power.

This institution benefited from the fact that the waters were thinner and the air thicker. Plants were planted as coal mines are laid out today to serve traffic. Humans and animals that feed on thinner water have very different organ natures. He could increase his power through his arbitrariness. Water was more related to his willpower. He had the organism more in his hands.

They did not make plans for the cities, they had no combining intellect. They sowed trees in an ellipse; they grew faster. Fruits outside - apartments inside. That was the first Atlantic period until six hundred thousand years ago.

The first race of the Rmoahals were like that; then they approached the present race. But the second race of the Tlavatli and the third of the Toltecs were similar. In the third race, the seeds of intellectual activity began to take hold. The peoples were very obedient, which decreased among the Turanians. They were the infamous black magicians of Atlantis. They were also great technicians, did not make big plans, but had a firm grip on things; they knew how much rock could be carried when they cut it out. Everything was based on personal skill. They then recorded this in symbolic drawings. Many secrets were revealed, morality fell, and doom was invoked. Only saved by the Ursemites, who were the fifth sub-race. They were a calculating and trading people, from whom the whole present root race has grown. They were the basic combiners.

Then sixth, the Akkadians, the actual colonizing people. They went, for example, to Ireland, where this highly developed Akkadian culture had flourished before the Celtic one. Seventh, the Mongols, who of course survived.

Then we come back to catastrophes. The Atlanteans were flooded by water. The destruction by fire preceded the Rmoahals, that is, the Lemurians – Australia and neighboring areas. We must distinguish precisely between the first Lemurians and the second; in total, also a million years. It is only from the middle of the Lemurian race that there are two sexes. The Urlehre calls the sexless Adam Kadmon. They had no memory, but imagination. The Lemurian could not yet retain the image, it soon vanished. That is why decadent Lemurians in Australia have no memory. But the imagination was much more vivid. For example, the difference between warmth and cold.

In those days the elements were not so differentiated as they are now. The sea was filled as if with drifting mists. There were denser and thinner mists, but water and air were not yet separated.

The green parts = remains of the Lemurian continent. On Earth, everything is in development. We would encounter a very different configuration of the Earth in Lemuria; a much higher temperature. Everything that is solid today would then be found in a liquid state. Metals would flow. We assume that this temperature would not harm their beings. The Lemurian continental parts were of a completely different nature, not emerging from the liquid element, but rather slightly liquid parts in a sea of fire, and only when it cooled down did this fire become dangerous to the more solid parts. The destruction happened because the remaining fire became dangerous to the cooled parts. The fire was what the Lemurians used to form everything; a fine etheric fabric was around the fiery-liquid mass in which the continents floated; the people were cloud-like fiery-flooding figures.

As differentiation occurred, fire was banished into fire basins, humans were able to work with firepower, came to black magic and perished in the fire. About a million years ago there was more differentiation.

The red was soft masses, more waxy continents; the air was much denser than it is today; the water was much thinner, still related to what we call the element from which life with form originated [...] . Even more related to the watery in plants, so that people were more related to what surrounded them. They could not yet easily penetrate the air; the water much thinner, like today's fog, was more related to them. There was more life force in this rarefied water than in today's denser, more differentiated water. People felt much more akin to the elements because of this kinship. The result was that they could use the power contained within them. Example of a locomotive with mineral steam propulsion. Grains have a similar stored energy to coal. Today's man cannot convert it into motive power; the Atlanteans were able to supply their engines with seed power.

He crossed the few plant species in order to use the power, and through skillful crossbreeding experiments, he produced the many varieties of plants and animals. This is where the difference to the Darwinian theory lies. No scientist wants to deny that these many species have emerged from a few; it is just that all hypotheses have been shattered, such as “(struggle for existence, ”sexual breeding choice, because science is faced with the fact that man himself is the breeder.

The Atlanteans were equipped with the power of seed, vril. The fourth root race had the plan of life at its disposal and ruled over everything with the power of seed; the fifth root race can only use mineral power. The Atlanteans had small airships that they heated with the power of seed. These moved in the dense air, close to the ground, and steered over the mountains. The water was thinner and was therefore used for the fine arts, especially in the city of golden gates.

Within the root race are seven sub-races that underwent migrations. First, the original people.

Rmoahals, people who still resembled the last Lemurians, with a fairly physical organization, living in nature itself. Their descendants, the Tlavatli peoples, organized themselves up to develop the dominant element of the Atlanteans, memory, which found its first peak in the third race, among the Toltecs. They had cities that were built entirely according to the principle of intuitive architecture - as it is degenerated today in beaver dams.

A rock, a natural garden, was continued in the buildings, as it were. In complete harmony with nature, they created fabulously beautiful dwellings; the canalization system was magnificent, cleanliness even greater.

Gradually, these peoples had developed an ever more highly cultured way of life. The sons of the fire mist had grown into adepts with schools of adepts; the rulers were taken from among the adepts themselves. It was impossible for them to be unworthy, because people knew how to regulate inheritance by choosing the appropriate parents. This secret, the secret of birth, was almost completely lost. Everything was based on memory, which extended beyond what they experienced between birth and death. It was taken for granted that a son had a shared memory with his father, grandfather, and so on, so that they mastered the knowledge and arts of their fathers through intuition. Thus, breeding was more important than education. All knowledge was therefore more a matter of trial and error than of study. Hence there were also other schools: more workshops where people learned how to do things. There was no counting involved; instead, people memorized and remembered. [No one was educated; no one could have described what their family tree would have looked like.] The temples were ancestral temples; the later cult of ancestors is a degeneration of this culture of ancestors, which was based on memory. History was recorded in symbols. Until the middle of the third race, mastery of the vril force was strictly held by the adepts, who understood the symbols that had to be learned first.

The fourth race, the original Turanians, were the first to have degenerated. They stole the secret of the vril force and became black magicians.

In the fifth race, the first announcement of thought and combination: the Ur-Israelites. They remained mixed between the sixth and seventh races; they were the progenitors of today's Aryan root race, bringing over the power of memory and adding combination.

The sixth race was that of the Akkadians, more towards Asia. It was the people who already understood the combining, calculating activity in the sense of practical enterprise. They were a trading people. They are the ones who brought something that did not exist before: primal jurisprudence, that is, rules for the mutual relations of people. The seventh sub-race, the Mongols, realized the Atmic principle of unity in religious matters. The others looked up at the starry sky and saw the divine in the power of the stars. The Toltecs had felt the power of Vril as divine, then worked it out intellectually until it was worshipped by the Mongols as “Tao”.

The Greeks in their tradition have expressed many things. Three types in the images of the gods:

- the Zeus type, that of the fifth root race,

- the satyr, faun circle, related to the primeval Egyptian mummies in the face, represents the memory of the Atlantean type. Satyr – eastward = faun: bringing the memory of peoples living to the west.

- Hermes: god of merchants, bearing everything that set the tone for the Atlanteans: the snake as a symbol of the healing vril force, god of doctors. Wings indicated an intimate relationship with nature; winged god who survived the flood. So that the three types are truly historical documents.

Greek mythology, related to Greek esotericism: the

Egyptian Hermes, in Egypt the adepts had retreated – and related to the great artists of the Atlanteans; under the

name of Hermes they summarized their adepts' knowledge. Hence

the relationship between the esoteric Hermes and the god of trade.

Now the time came, similar to the Lemurian one. The continents condensed, the Turanians used the vril force to draw water, so that the continents were shaken by its own power. Due to the condensation of the water, it was not possible to hold the water at its points; the evil arts, evil were the ferment of progress. Due to the proliferation of mischief, the sea condensed. The extracted life force, which pushed the molecules apart, caused the opposite pole, the power over the condensed sea was lost. They themselves extracted the power that held the sea together.

The life force in the plants of the Atlantians was still connected to the life force of the Atlantians themselves; when he made changes to himself, he could cause the plants to grow slower or faster.

So we have to change our ideas to have the concept of development.

The origin of the Lemurian race is in principle different from that of what is today called man. These people are influenced by a completely different side than is the case at the end. They were beings who were unable to perceive light and color, only able to perceive temperature differences. These beings did not have skin, like beings that swim in a water reservoir and have a somewhat denser source; feel denser and thinner parts, cooler and warmer. Pitri-like spiritual being that forms its body out of the surrounding foggy, watery mass - the Pitris, who used to be astral, become physical in this fiery nebula - . Swellingly, jelly-like, changing in temperature, a self-born. These Pitris have the creative, the materializing, and the material, the fire mist; the light that radiates from within and the dark that is drawn in from without: Sons of the twilight.

These nebulous masses are constantly changing like clouds, tearing away, increasing. The Pitri tends to give his matter ever clearer and sharper outlines. Before, he was indifferent to form, now he loves it, maintains it, and when it dissolves, he recreates it.

1. The Arupic
2. The Rupic Mist-born – Sweat-born
3. The second state differs from the second in that Pitri forms the matter, the previously obtained form, even more densely, and by severing it, another emerges from it: the egg-born.

The third sub-race of man-woman: Adam Kadmon.

Now for the first time something occurs in man from within; a center has been created within himself. The first rudiments of the nervous system. We now have a definite form. Now, for the first time, there is a human individual; the human principle has entered into matter. Now the Sons of Light and Fire Mist come and take possession of these still very delicate bodies and radiate the bright light of the spirit for the first time: Arhats, the first great teachers of mankind.

There were those that could not be inhabited by adepts, but developed. The brain is developed to such an extent that it can already reflect the spiritual, but not recognize it; it remains dull in them; people with dream-like consciousness, to whom the highest is offered.

A third type does not even get that far. These are called amanasic. The human Pitris are there, waiting to embody themselves. - The shadows, human templates, elemental beings described above were macrocosmic Pitris. - Into which the solaric /unleserlich] go. “We do not embody ourselves in the amanasic people,” say the Pitris.

Because a center has been created, the jerk into the denser matter has gone, the unravelling can no longer take place. The dull-witted and dreamers must become more perfect; there is no reproduction. These are already the three lower realms, animals that were already developed:

The root race of adepts,
dreamers
- dull-witted
- animals.

Now the brain is to develop in such a way that the Pitris can enter it. Then the amanasic human being mixes with the animal and defiles human nature. He takes in something that he gets from the animal, which does not belong to the human. The guilt.

This is how the two sexes came into being. Differentiation arises and reproduction. On the one hand, the human bisexual splits off, on the other hand, the animal bisexual. This is how humans developed the brain and absorbed the animalistic that became sexual. If the Pitris had incarnated in the dream-conscious, each would have had the ability to absorb Pitri in his entire nature. But there would be no free self-determination.

Now there is one who cannot absorb all of Pitri; the power of Pitri extends far beyond the human being, only a part can be expressed. Pitri wants to live out brightly, not dreamlike, but it can only do so in many incarnations. The condensed body, which had become sinful, could not suddenly merge with Pitri. We are approaching the end of the Lemurian race. Pitri is embodied, unable to find complete satisfaction in space and time.

Now there was a bubble in the body - a respiratory organ - so that man could connect with the air that had now been created. The water vapor had become increasingly dense and had finally separated as water from the now thinner air. Lung people appear, and a lot of animals that used to live only in the water are now air dwellers: birds. Because they need warmth inside, humans draw the power of fire into themselves, and the circulatory system is created; organ heat arises, and by developing the heart internally, they create fire externally, which consumes them and in which the Lemurian continent is submerged. The fire, used by humans, ignited the finer air.

We know that the matter of our globe has gradually condensed and that the substances we have today are not the real ones. The conditions that have arisen over time through differentiation are different from the earlier ones. During the first race there was a state of matter that was much thinner than our present-day air and which is called ether in the occult language; during the second race we get a state that already corresponds to our present-day earth in that it is similar to what we call steam; during the third race, a state arises that lies somewhere between the solid and the liquid; it resembles coagulated egg white; it is a swelling matter, as we find it today in lower animal forms. The substance during the fourth root race is somewhat denser and more difficult to describe because it has since undergone a much greater condensation. However, everything else is latent in every condensed substance. During this time, the seed power, with which the Atlanteans could do everything, and which they called “Tao”, was such a latent power. But with the degree of condensation achieved during the fifth root race, another force came into play that could not have been harnessed before, namely fire. Therefore, for the fifth race, the most important invention is that of fire, and that is why the Prometheus saga says that Prometheus stole fire from the gods, that he revealed the occult fire. This is the light that is shed upon the fundamental structure of the civilization of the Fifth Race. The captured natural fire was regarded as more effective and more sacred than the fire drawn from the mineral world. This view led to the Fire Service of Zarathustra, to the Vestal Service. This fire, as is well known, was never allowed to go out once it had been lit. The secret of the fourth race, the application of the power of the seed, also called vril power, was lost with the ended culture of the Atlanteans. The surviving initiates chose a particular sex from the fifth sub-race, the ancient Hebrews, and, under the leadership of the Manu, brought them to the Gobi Desert. They initially worked on the refinement of the body, which had to become capable of absorbing the mental. But in order for the thought to have the character of the spiritual, pure bodies had to be cultivated by eradicating everything from the kamic power that was directly connected with the life force. Nothing that was related to sexuality could be consumed as food. All those substances were selected that were only living nutrients and that did not produce any waste products. Only those nutrients were taken that did not produce any excretion: in the animal kingdom, nothing at all; in the plant kingdom, only that which had a building effect.

Only an external primitive culture was created at that time, since it only had to produce the little that people enjoyed. Today, unspeakable mental, soul and physical strength is used to nourish people. As slag and a used-up product, it is thrown off into what is called the eighth sphere. The strongest mental power is put into the service of the slags. The urge of the tribal race was directed towards developing the spiritual. To supply the physical means: to draw power from the spiritual. But so much power was accumulated for spiritual life, and it still flowed completely in the Indo-Aryan sub-race. It was not yet necessary for it to draw fire from the densified matter, and it revered the spirit spiritually. Now, in such a state, man has a particularly high regard for the power of vril and knows that he should, at least psychically, generate the forces associated with the power of vril.

It is now an important occult law: You withdraw as much vril power from yourself as you destroy vril power. With every being killed, no matter whether it is the most miserable insect, man deprives himself of as much vril power as he kills. Therefore, in the fifth race, the destruction of life is just as much a means of attaining black magic as the cultivation of vril power is in the Turanian. Pain increases the vital force in others and dulls it in oneself. Therefore, the black magician kills the life vril force in himself: he withdraws so much from the Tao that the opposite is awakened in him. By withdrawing the light vril force, I relate myself to the lower power of fire that slumbers in dense matter. This is an occult process in the fifth root race, that by killing - as with the hunting peoples - it makes itself lower and awakens the power of fire. For this occult fact, religions have created a symbol, the animal sacrifice; a symbol of the truth that the fire that is kindled on the altar burns what was the prevailing force in the fourth race, namely life. The black magician will use the still deeper forces of fire to carry out his arts. From this we can understand why a certain kind of ceremonial magic tempts people to commit suicide.

Because all this was known to the original Manu, he strictly forbade the first sub-race all killing, as they were destined to live the spiritual life. Later on, it was only possible to achieve the sanctification of the whole race by some abstaining and leaving the physical life to others. This underlies the division into castes.

The Indian race is therefore the religious one, and Brahmanism is the main religion of the fifth root race - the rest are variations.

The second sub-race had to begin to conquer the physical plane, had to live where cultivation of the soil was necessary, and branches migrate to the areas between the Euphrates and Tigris and to Egypt, where they establish the Egyptian culture of the fifth race and the Babylonian-Medes-Persian culture. To conquer the material plane, fire becomes the external means of culture. The Indian did not yet need it. But it was necessary to make disappear the art which fire could inwardly bring forth out of direct nature. Wherever something in its reverse aspect can lead to evil arts, it becomes necessary to banish it into religion. Fire was placed at the center of religious cult. The fire service means: “Fire is given to you, but the moment you do not worship it, you will not get into the right relationship with it.” Therefore, the first Zoroaster introduced the fire service, the Ahura Mazdao service. If man needs the week for his service, he must worship kneeling on one day: hence the Sabbath day. For the Persians, fire was the object of direct worship; for the Jews, God appeared in a pillar of fire; Christianity calls God a consuming fire.

The word “magician” is used for all those who worship fire, whether right or left. All magism leads its origin to fire. With it, the soil was given from which the culture of the fifth race could spring.

The Gobi race originated from the Ursemites, and now the time had come to use the original Semitic foundation of culture. The idea could be expressed, and the next sub-race was chosen for this purpose.

The thought, directly expressed on the physical plane, is the commandment. The commandment, the conceptualization of life in thoughts, is the mission of the Israelite people. Before that, life was habit; now it appears in mental form, as a commandment. Hammurabi is a proclaimer of the commandment, then Moses. It is the mission of the Semitic tribe, of which the Israelite people is the main expression. Before that, the psychic was more developed; now they began to regulate life mentally. Hence the peculiar characteristic of the Jewish people.

In the Indo-Aryan race, thought was present, but initially in a spiritual form. The Vedas are spiritual and intuitive.

In the Persian-Chaldean peoples, we encounter thought as a feeling, as a nature service. The third is thought in its most direct form, as a commandment. Thus, we distinguish three things:

The Indians worship thought as a spirit.
The Persians worship it as a force of nature.
The Jews worship thought itself.

But thought on the physical plane must be ascribed to a being, must have a vehicle. The Indian recognizes it as spirit; the Jew does not know the cosmic thought, but only the human thought, and therefore must anthropomorphize his God, Yahweh.

Everything that is temporal passes over to a humanization of the divine principle, as do the Greeks and other peoples. Thus we see, as everywhere in the third sub-race, spiritualistic pantheism and naturalistic pantheism pass over into anthropomorphic religion.

Now it is also a matter of getting to know the other type of civilization. The state appears as a theocracy among the Jews, with God as king. Hence the ethical character of the Jewish state organism. The principle of sin permeates life; everything is punished.

Gradually, man becomes so at home on the physical plane that he gains the same great understanding that we see in the Greek, for example, who works out the artistic. The existence between birth and death now becomes the essential for him. Achill, for example, says: “Better a beggar in the upper world than a king in the realm of shadows.” Man now respects what is beyond the physical plane, as a land of shadows. For the Greek, the real lies in the spiritual beautiful form: in art.

Now we come to the fact that this physical plan must be sanctified. The Indian has looked up to the spiritual plane. The Persian has recognized it as a sensation. The Jew has already permeated it with Kama; he has a passionate God. The Greek gods are full of passions. What has not yet been deified is the immediate physical plane. The biblical word tells us: Three begat on earth: the Spirit, the Water and the Blood.

We know that in biblical language, water refers to the astral, the kamic, and blood to the earthly, the carnal. All passions had already been given divine expression: Kama was deified. Now the flesh, the expression of the physical, was to be conquered. In Christianity, which is the responsibility of the fourth, the Latin race, the truth becomes the purification of the flesh. The Word is embodied in the flesh; the body is transfigured; in the transfigured body the Divine then walks.

The new element is the sanctification of the flesh, which sees its task in the resurrection of the flesh. If material life is to be purified in order to begin the ascending line, the flesh must be sanctified.

To worship God incarnate in the flesh was the task of the Latin race, as to worship God incarnate in the passions was the task of the Jewish race.

When thought was poured out into the material, the original form was increasingly lost. The Christian worships the personalized God; a personal affiliation develops in him. He adheres to the blood. Through this affiliation, thought itself had to be lost. But the Jewish people, who had first brought thought into the physical plane, had to revive it once more, and in the principle that besides the One there can be no other God; others are only His prophets. From the cognate Moresque people, as a Semitic replenishment, the principle of abstract science arises and is propagated into the Germanic race.

In the Copernican-Galilean era, it becomes real. The mighty flowering of the Germanic-English races occurs within the abstract science.

Now thought, having conquered the physical plane, can move up again to the spiritual.

To fully understand the evolution of our planet, we need to take another evolution into account. The purpose of development is to bring the Pitri host forward by a certain step. From Kama to the Manasic, through Kama-Manas. The purpose is to do everything that helps the Pitris to develop their consciousness. They had a dull consciousness, quite without M. similar [gap in the transcript]

The intellectual consciousness is now to be developed throughout all 7 x 7 races. So that the earthly [gap in the transcript]

We have become acquainted with the 7x7 levels to a certain extent. Many levels of evolution were needed to bring man to this point. This level of consciousness is also not simply there, but is subject to a certain development.

...higher animal - divine man...

So we have come to know people from the level of consciousness of Pitris - animal man - to that of Mahatma - God man. Three levels precede the consciousness of the animal man, three follow that of the God man. The first in relation to the last is in some respects lower, in others higher.

1.-2.- 3. - 4. our level of consciousness
5.-6.-7. the coming.

The first is one in which they know everything, but with tremendous dullness. Nothing could happen that they did not know, but dull. Dull omniscience, deepest trance. When the yogi no longer perceives with the brain, but with the bone system. Everything in him is still except for the chemical processes; it is a dull all-consciousness, a stage long since overcome; when it is evoked atavistically, it produces a kind of face of our entire universe. In female individuals, it is even more possible to evoke mineral consciousness through intoxication, pathological means and the like.

The second state of consciousness, where only euthanization is practiced or is not yet developed, is animal consciousness, where only the consciousness associated with the digestive and respiratory systems is developed. It was that of the second Pitris; only the gastric organs perceive; it is plant consciousness, not so omniscient and not so dull, perceiving with the organs of life.

The carbon content within stimulates vegetative life, while oxygen stimulates animal life. By impregnating the body with carbon, the yogi acquires knowledge of all life on earth.

The third level of consciousness is the animal level, which the Pitris go through until they are delivered to us in earthly evolution. Dream trance is the animal consciousness. The animal has a similar one, artificially achieved through / gap in the transcript]

So we have now gone through three levels of consciousness. The fourth is our earthly one. So must

Seven rounds with seven races to develop mineral consciousness,
seven rounds with seven races to develop plant consciousness,
seven rounds with seven races to develop animal dream consciousness,
seven rounds with seven races to develop intellectual consciousness.

Now come the future stages:

7 rounds with 7 races to psychic consciousness - a repetition of the animalistic at a higher level. The medium is

transferred back, the clairvoyant is brought out. Clair consciousness with dream perception. This is why Theosophy frowns upon mediumship.

7 rounds with 7 races in hyperpsychic consciousness, where the

human perceives all life directly, but with an alert

consciousness.

7 rounds with 7 races in spiritual consciousness. The mind

remains, but is expanded to see everything.

These are the seven planetary chains, and when the ancient scriptures speak of seven planets, this is what is meant. The fourth is the earth, esoterically and, of course, exoterically as well. The third was the moon, where the Pitris developed. We have to look at it esoterically, from the point of view of the old mysticism.

The fifth is Mercury, esoterically.

Then we have the two esoteric planets; the Sun, not understood as the Sun, but as an esoteric planet.

Then the sixth esoteric planet, Venus, hyperpsychic, where everything is connected with love, Budhi.

The first esoteric planet is Mars, the seventh is Jupiter. Names for the 7x7 rounds in question. We now know what the astrologers are talking about, seven different levels of consciousness corresponding to seven different cosmological states.

This is the solar system to which our Earth belongs. Each time such a planetary round development takes place, it enters the physical state seven times. The second planet, the Sun, the third, the Moon, and so on, always entered a physical state once.

Always arupa, rupa, astral, physical and upward first.

As a human being on Earth, looking up at the sky, we see the stars that are currently in the physical state in their round development. In addition, countless others are visible to those who are at a different level of consciousness. The present Mars is at the /unreadable] stage of 7x7 round development.

So we have to distinguish between the sevenfold Pitri development – at sevenfold levels of consciousness. This Pitri in this series of development is called the esoteric microcosm. If we imagine it at its first level of consciousness, everything else passes through it. On each planet, all the kingdoms of nature are brought to the Pitri. We call these kingdoms of nature the macrocosm.

So that we can say:

Occult sentence: Our present development consists in the macrocosm meeting the microcosm for the fourth time. In our present development, the macrocosm has been married to the microcosm for the fourth time.

Now we must be clear about what is happening: the cosmos has now united for the fourth time, and this awakens the manas. This alone awakens evil. Manas had to descend into the special being, to awaken the intellectual. When the macrocosm meets the microcosm for the fourth time, four is married to five.

Postscript: Now that Manas is in the particular, he can work on matter out of himself and throw a part out of evolution. The third occult sentence follows from this:

When the macrocosm meets the microcosm for the fourth time, four is married to five and as a result, some of the matter is hurled into space, so that it accompanies the planet as a satellite. This satellite is called the 'Eighth Sphere', and everything that makes it related to it here, parts ways with earthly development.

The more one moves up to the present in the consideration of evolution, one must take into account that time is an element of deception and the source of numerous errors in history. One must distinguish between what always goes through evolution, what is always there, is a total dying or death: and that is the development of the levels of consciousness of the Pitris. All that matters in the end is this development. No matter how much may have happened on the first planet: the moment the Pitris had the first state of consciousness, everything the Pitris had within them was dissolved. Only the result was transferred. All the work that was used is concentrated in one point. Everything winds around it like a spiral around the node, in which the Pitri has contracted like the snake around the Hermes staff. This is how we do it in earthly evolution. We discard the detail. Pitri has hereby achieved an elevation of consciousness. The stages are determined, the snake remains subject to a certain arbitrariness, its coils are what the illusions bring about in time.

We can predict the stages of consciousness of a Pitri. The paths of the snake are manifold and can be seen by the seer in their outcome – not in the future. So one can say for the future: it will be so and so, but not whether in two hundred or three hundred years. We do not know how much the stages of evolution will be drawn out. A can be reached in five years, C in a hundred years, or vice versa. Therefore, it is possible to determine the path, but not the length of time. Hence the deception, and one cannot say in advance in terms of time, because time belongs to macrocosmic development, the microcosmic is timeless.

This must be considered when following events in relation to the present and the future, because the microcosmic development is correct, but the macrocosmic development is subject to freedom, in that it can use external circumstances in different ways.

From this follows an occult sentence: the arbitrariness or freedom of the human microcosm expresses itself in its inclination towards the snake.

The rod is he himself, and therefore the snake symbol as the symbol of freedom. So, although the path is strictly prescribed, it would be futile to want to try to foresee what freedom of man, of external events, can be foreseen. Although external events can be foreseen, but the leaders and leaders use the external events at their discretion.

The Pitri has not yet awakened to freedom, and his future actions are mostly prescribed for him by the macrocosm.

Let us take this into account when considering the present, the Latin races. What the Pitris do can only be perceived through inner vision; what takes place in the macrocosm from the outside.

Therefore, the consideration of world history falls into events that we see from the outside and into the essential stages of development that we have to consider from the inside. We call the former noumenon and the latter all external phenomena.

All phenomena also have an inner side, and are phenomena insofar as we do not yet see their noumenon. Now, the Teutonic race has the task, the noumenal, of applying intelligence, the manasic, to external processes. Therefore, for centuries all science was transferred to the external physical plane. In his poem, Dante describes the three-tiered world. He did not, of course, believe that these were locas in space, but took them as symbols for spiritual processes. At that time, little importance was attached to the description of external events, but rather to the essence of spiritual matters.

In the Heliand saga, Christ is made the German military leader; the poet said to himself: It does not matter whether it is described through Palestinian or Saxon events, but rather it is used arbitrarily for inner events, because the temporal is Maya.

The actual mission of the Germanic race was to take the external and the temporal really seriously. In the past, the world system was used from a different point of view. From Copernicus onwards, the aim was to describe the world independently of man and according to material processes. The external is taken so seriously that the human will becomes the decisive factor. In the past, intentions for the social life of man were still taken from above, and the leaders were mediators. Now personal freedom becomes the decisive factor. Reason and self-will of the individual, freedom, equality and fraternity will [gap in the transcript]

Therefore, the French Revolution could only have been staged under the leadership of masters [gap in the transcript]

Voltaire, Rousseau, d'Alembert did not simply have an external historical [gap in the transcript] but were masters [gap in the transcript] and therefore executed it as a noumenon.

Everything that is snake is the abomination..., everything that is progress is the rod. The externally leading masters had to relinquish the leadership to the snake. In particular, Rosicrucianism withdrew.

Materialism at its highest in the forty years; it blossoms in the will.

Limitation to the external phenomenal principle of knowledge; we can only [gap in the transcript]

Kant introduced and Spencer expressed.

Ignorabimus.

The will had to be directed in such a way that it is forced down completely onto the physical plane, compressed, concentrated into a personality. To state what impression it makes, what the ultimate consequence / gap in the transcript]

Infallibility of the Pope. One does not have to investigate the counsel of God, but on the physical plane, [gap in the transcript]

The authority wants to be concentrated in one personality.

Agnosticism from one side, infallibility from the other.

Unity on the physical plane would only be possible if one ruled over all; on higher planes, unity is self-evident.

The task of the next race will be to create a culture with elementary force, renouncing the entire culture of the fifth race and starting from the original human nature.

The blessings of Western civilization will be used by the Slavic race to bring about a renewal of civilization; it will become the sixth sub-race. It will give its content to the American race, which will play a similar role to the Mongols for the future main race.

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Let us take the standpoint of the universe and look at the world from the point of view of consciousness, life and being, or vice versa. Here, too, we have to distinguish between body, soul and spirit. Body would correspond to being, soul to life, spirit to consciousness. This also gives us a trinity.

If we take the body in a cosmic sense, Indian philosophy calls this Adi-Buddha = All-Body. Christian esotericism refers to the same thing as Kyriotetes - Empire. Indian philosophy refers to the All-Soul as Adi-Atma. Christian esotericism calls the same Dynamis-Power. Then All-Spirit: Indian AdiDeva, Christian esoteric: Exusiai - Revelation or Violence. So that from the standpoint of the microcosm we have to distinguish:

The gods circle the axis/staff 7x7 times, and the seven circles are the seven realms. However, each time the gods circle around, they move up one step, so that in the present mineral realm man is ruled by the light gods, but in the mineral realm of the next round he is already ruled by the power gods.

In all three, we have to distinguish seven levels, seven regions of the Adi-Buddha, then of the Adi-Atman - seven levels of living consciousness. - In the case of Adi-Deva, we also have to distinguish seven levels.

The 'day consciousness' reveals itself in the fourth round of the earth in the mineral kingdom, and from the outside the forces of light reveal themselves.

So, if we look at the three-part world from the point of view of the universe, we have bright day consciousness inside the mineral kingdom. When we look at the body, we see that it [gap in transcript] and what manifests itself in it are the forces of light.

When the light reveals itself on the physical plane, darkness must reveal itself with it, because the counter-forces of the realm oppose it and cause cloudiness.

On the plane of deception, the forces cannot reveal themselves other than in the twilight, so that the forces of darkness are necessarily opposed to the forces of light.

If we look at the formation of the Earth from this point of view, the forces of light and thus those of darkness are revealed first. Let us first consider the forces of light: Elohim.

Now, as one kind of force reveals itself, the earth passes through all the kingdoms: the first, the second and the third elemental kingdom, the mineral, the vegetable kingdom and the animal kingdom.

Adi-Atma goes through seven stages, and these are called “planetary developments” or “chains.

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In each of these realms, seven stages are passed through. In each

round, seven globes again; these are the forces. An Atman has to go through 343 cycles to reach its goal.

7 x 7 - 7 stages of consciousness, 7 rounds, in each 7 globes.
Planetary development
Round development
Globe development
The forces of warmth used to be outside us, now they are within us.
1. The soul reaches 7 levels of consciousness. Each level of consciousness is called a “planetary chain”.
2. At each level of consciousness, the soul passes through all 7 realms - Buddhas. Each realm is called a 'round'. 3. In each round, one of the 7 different devas rules. Each type of deva government is a 'globe' or a 'planet'.

In Christian scriptures, the devas are called “angels of the ages”. The humans themselves are manifestations of the soul of the world in the mineral kingdom.

Before, before our earth came to the point of view that the Elohim revealed themselves on it, it was surrounded by a sea of warmth. Then we had an organ, the pineal gland, outgrown, it was also the one eye of the Cyclops; they were the people of fire. A great eye of warmth, with which he would swim around in this sea, which was then the earth, and perceive everywhere. That was the globe of warmth. Even earlier the globe of ether and before that the globe that was only life.

Returning to this state, we would arrive at the third round. During the third round, the various powers would appear seven times. Powers of warmth in the mineral kingdom. During the previous second round, the powers of fire ruled in the mineral kingdom.

1. The Arupa-Devas rule during the first round in the mineral kingdom.
2. The Rupa-, fire-Devas rule during the second round in the mineral kingdom.
3. The astral-Devas or warmth-spirits rule during the third round in the mineral kingdom.
4. The light-spirits rule during the fourth round in the mineral kingdom.
5. The Power Spirits rule during the fifth round in the mineral kingdom.
6. The Creative Spirits rule during the sixth round in the mineral kingdom.
7. The Divine Spirits rule during the seventh round in the mineral kingdom.

If we follow this, we have: “In the beginning God created heaven and earth” - Arupa-Devas emerged.

“The Earth was formless and empty” - It continues to develop from globe to globe.

“God separated the light from the darkness and called the light Day and the darkness Night.”

Description of the first round. The first round is the first day of creation; darkness is pralaya, which now passes over to the second round.

After the light spirits, the power spirits rule in the second round, and they are to pass over to the next round. “Then God made the firmament.”

When the third round is over, it dismisses its deities as creating spirits. The fourth round will dismiss godly spirits. Exactly the same as before, but now evolved. The fourth round is described in the Bible accordingly:

“Let lights be made” - light spirits, exusiai, elohim.

The fifth, sixth and seventh days represent the future.

We are dealing with a progressive development of our planet. The purpose of our Earth is to develop this consciousness within us. Each planet goes through metamorphoses of seven successive levels of consciousness:

[1. Trance consciousness
2. Deep sleep consciousness
3. Dream consciousness
4. Wakefulness consciousness]
5. Soul consciousness
6. Oversoul consciousness
7. Spiritual consciousness

We have now established the [seven] metamorphoses of the father principle. Each of these seven metamorphoses of the father principle now undergoes seven principles in itself. Seven times seven.

Now we come to the son principle:

1. Elemental kingdom
2. Elemental kingdom
3. Elemental kingdom
4. mineral kingdom
5. plant kingdom
6. animal kingdom
7. human kingdom = 49 metamorphoses

Each of these 49 metamorphoses undergoes seven transformations, and the transformations through the spirit principle.

Each realm undergoes the seven powers once. For example, plant consciousness undergoes the seven powers once through the seven realms and seven times seven – each realm seven times the powers.

su>run The father metamorphoses seven times in seven levels of consciousness. All – plant – animal – human [gap in the transcript]

Puruscha: The Father metamorphoses seven times in seven stages of consciousness: All-consciousness - plant consciousness - animal consciousness - human consciousness - soul consciousness - oversoul consciousness - spirit consciousness.

Pakriti: The son metamorphoses seven times at each of these levels: first elemental realm, second elemental realm, third elemental realm, mineral realm, plant realm, animal realm, human realm.

Mahat: The mind metamorphoses seven times in each realm: Divine Spirit, Fire Spirit, Warmth Spirit, Light Spirit, Power Spirit, Creative Spirit, Blissful Spirit.

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The way the realms are arranged in the individual levels of consciousness, however, makes us think as we describe them.

On the first planetary chain, the forces of light rule the first elemental realm in the fourth round. That is a fixed point. On the second chain or level of consciousness, the forces of light mainly rule the second elemental realm in the fourth round. On the third chain or level of consciousness, the forces of light rule the third elemental realm, and on the fourth, our level of consciousness, the forces of light rule the mineral realm. This is important because the rulers are not always the same. During each round, all seven forces are experienced, but not in the same way. On the moon, the mineral kingdom was ruled by the forces of warmth, -— previously by the forces of fire, on the first / gap in the transcript] by the forces of life. When Mars completed its fourth stage, its mineral state, its angel of orbital period was the divine spirit. Consciousness was an all-consciousness. When the beings arrived in the mineral kingdom, they were ruled by divine spirits.

On the first globe (arupa), the power spirit rules.
On the second globe (rupa), the creator spirit rules.
On the third globe, the blessed spirit rules.
On the fourth globe, the divine spirit rules.
On the fifth globe, the fire spirit rules.
On the sixth globe, the warmth spirit rules.
On the seventh globe rules the spirit of light.

Because this goes in a circle, Mars concludes with the highest development of light. Now he has developed light to the highest degree; the second planet begins. And what he has conquered in the previous one, he carries over. Now he shines and is called esoterically: the sun. Now he has during his

the creator spirit,

the blessed spirit,

the divine spirit. Now the sun reveals itself during its mineral state as fire, the plants are cooked. - Now it continues:

Fire
Warmth
Light
Strength

and hands over the power to the moon, and the power becomes that which permeates the moon, therefore it organizes [gap in the transcript] the moon period begins with creative spirit, develops arbitrariness, man arises as pleasure and pain.

Arupa stage – blissful mind
Rupa stage – divine mind
Astral stage – fire mind
Mineral stage – warmth

Warmth is revealed on the moon while it is physical.

The earth begins with

Arupa stage – Divine spirit
Rupa stage – Fire spirit
Astral stage – Warmth spirit
Physical stage – Light spirit

We are ruled by the light spirit, which is why the sun shines for us.

Now it depends on when a certain stage of Pitri is reached. Imagine you remain behind, a certain constellation of the stars comes, in which violence has a different relationship to the realm; the spirit to the son in another relationship, and that is decisive, as we are in our state of development. That is esoteric astrology. He must know at which level the Pitri stands and what the relationship between father and son is.

This is also the danger of the higher development of man: he comes out and into other cosmic influences. - He practices black magic by being carried away and coming into another sphere of influence. - Look at the diagram:

Each time we have seven kingdoms that go through certain stages of development. These are the son principle; hence 343 states, but only after every 49 states - so that every time a person has gone through 49 states, they have a particular turning point in their development. Something special is revealed to them. They enter a new series of 49. The Son reveals Himself. The human being becomes more inward-looking. The kingdom principle is evoked through the Son, and so the Son, Christ, reveals Himself. So Christ appears each time.

Our Christ is the one. And when the experience of Christ is fully realized within a person, they have undergone the 172nd metamorphosis. After the 343rd metamorphosis, they have returned to the Father. This is why Christ can say: “No one comes to the Father except through me.”

There are
343 human stages
49 Christs
7 Fathers.

Our Christ was the twenty-fifth; in every kingdom the Son reveals Himself once. 49 times in a planetary development. The Father reveals Himself in the constellation.

On our Earth it is the fourth, on the planetary chain the twenty-fifth.

7 x 49 = 343. The Son reveals Himself every 49th time.

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343
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172 stages of development
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