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.They radiate the forces in accordance with which the substances formthemselves.Sun and Moon have thus separated from one another in accordance with the necessity of establishingproper dwelling places for the corresponding beings.This conditioning of substance and its forces bymeans of the spirit, however, extends further.The beings themselves determine certain movements ofcosmic bodies and their definite revolution around each other.In this way these bodies come intovarying positions in, relation to each other.If the location or position of one cosmic body in relation toanother is changed, then the effects of their corresponding beings upon one another are also changed.This happened with the sun and the Moon.Through the movement begun by the Moon around the sun, the human beings come now under theinfluence of the sun activity, now they turn away from this influence and are then more dependentupon themselves.The movement is a result of the secession of certain Moon beings already describedand the adjustment of the conflict brought about by it.It is only the physical expression of the spiritualrelationship of forces created by this secession.The revolution of one body around the other resulted in the previously described changing states ofconsciousness in the beings dwelling on the cosmic bodies.It can be said that the Moon alternatelyturns its life toward and away from the sun.There is a sun period and a Moon period; during the latter,the Moon beings develop on the side of the Moon that is turned away from the sun.For the Moon,however, something else was added to the movement of the heavenly bodies.The retrospective supersensible consciousness is able to see how the Moon beings themselves revolvearound their own cosmic body in quite regular periods.At certain times they seek out the places wherethey can expose themselves to the influence of the sun.At other epochs they migrate to the regionswhere they are not exposed to this influence and where they can, as it were, reflect upon themselves.In order to complete the picture of these processes, we have also to consider that at this time the Sonsof Life reach their human stage.The human being on the Moon cannot yet use his senses, the primalindications of which had come into existence already on Saturn, for his own perception of externalobjects.At the Moon stage of evolution, however, these senses become the instruments of the Sons ofLife.The latter make use of these senses in order to perceive by means of them.These senses, whichbelong to the physical human body, enter in this way into reciprocal relationship with the Sons of Life,who not only make use of them, but perfect them as well.Through the changing relationships to the sun a change occurs, as described, in the conditions of lifewithin the human being himself.Things shape themselves in such a way that each time the humanbeing comes under the influence of the sun, he devotes himself more to the life of the sun and itsphenomena than to himself.At such times he experiences the grandeur and majesty of the universe asthis is expressed in the sun existence.He absorbs this.The exalted beings who have their habitation upon the sun exercise their power upon the Moon, whichin turn has its effect upon the being of man.This effect does not extend to the entire human being; itaffects particularly those parts of him that have withdrawn from the influence of his own pictureconsciousness.Thus the physical and ether bodies especially attain a certain size and form, but inorder that this may occur, the phenomena of consciousness withdraw.When, now, the life of thehuman being is removed from the influence of the sun, he is occupied with his own nature.An inner vivacity begins chiefly in the astral body, but the external shape becomes less conspicuous,less perfect in form. Thus during the Moon evolution there are these two clearly distinguishable,alternating states of consciousness a duller state during the sun period and a clearer state during theperiod in which life is more dependent upon itself.The first state is, indeed duller, but it is for thatreason also more selfless.Man surrenders himself more to the outer world, to the universe mirrored in the sun.There is analternation in the states of consciousness that may be compared with the alternation of sleeping andwaking in the present human being, as well as with his life between birth and death on the one hand,and with the more spiritual existence between death and a new birth, on the other.The awakening onthe Moon, when the sun period gradually ceases, should be characterized as a state intermediatebetween our present waking every morning and our being born.Likewise, the gradual dimming ofconsciousness at the approach of the sun period may be likened to an intermediate state between goingto sleep and dying, for a consciousness of birth and death similar to the one belonging to present-dayman did not yet exist on the ancient Moon.In a kind of sun-life the human being surrendered himselfto the enjoyment of this life.He was, during this time, withdrawn from his own life.He lived more spiritually.Only anapproximate and comparative description of what the human entity experienced in these periods canbe attempted.He felt as though the causative forces of the cosmos streamed into him, pulsated throughhim.He felt as though intoxicated with the harmonies of the universe of which he partook
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