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The spiritual mission of the Earth and its evolution

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	The Earth is the setting of the [[evolution of man]] and the [[natural kingdoms]] associated with it. In [[mythology]], the Earth is often regarded as a living and life-giving feminine-maternal being and is addressed, for example, as Mother Earth, Earth Mother, Magna Mater (Great Mother) or [[Gaia]]<ref>Manfred Kurt Ehmer: ''Göttin Erde: Kult und Mythos der Mutter Erde; ein Beitrag zur Ökosophie der Zukunft''. Zerling, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-88468-058-7</ref>.		The Earth is the setting of the [[evolution of man]] and the [[natural kingdoms]] associated with it. In [[mythology]], the Earth is often regarded as a living and life-giving feminine-maternal being and is addressed, for example, as Mother Earth, Earth Mother, Magna Mater (Great Mother) or [[Gaia]]<ref>Manfred Kurt Ehmer: ''Göttin Erde: Kult und Mythos der Mutter Erde; ein Beitrag zur Ökosophie der Zukunft''. Zerling, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-88468-058-7</ref>.

	According to [[Rudolf Steiner]], the goal of the Earth's evolution is to become the [[Cosmos of Love]], for its spiritual mission is to bring [[love]] into the world. For this it needs the human being, who here develops his independent ego. For the bearer of love can only be a being that is able to give itself away of its own [[free will]]. The prerequisites for this were created by the [[incarnation]] of the [[Christ]] on Earth and the [[Mystery of Golgotha.		According to [[Rudolf Steiner]], the goal of the Earth's evolution is to become the [[Cosmos of Love]], for its spiritual mission is to bring [[love]] into the world. For this it needs the human being, who here develops his independent ego. For the bearer of love can only be a being that is able to give itself away of its own [[free will]]. The prerequisites for this were created by the [[incarnation]] of the [[Christ]] on Earth and the [[Mystery of Golgotha]].

	The Earth's evolution will be followed as the fifth planetary stage of development by the [[New Jupiter]], which is called the [[New Jerusalem]] in the [[Apocalypse of St. John]].		The Earth's evolution will be followed as the fifth planetary stage of development by the [[New Jupiter]], which is called the [[New Jerusalem]] in the [[Apocalypse of St. John]].

	== Previous and subsequent stages of world evolution ==		== Previous and subsequent stages of world evolution ==

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	* In the second round, the [[Old Sun\|Old Solar Existence]] was repeated and the etheric body and the glandular organs in the physical body were prepared for the development of the I. At that time, today's [[Jupiter]] emerged as an independent planet.		* In the second round, the [[Old Sun\|Old Solar Existence]] was repeated and the etheric body and the glandular organs in the physical body were prepared for the development of the I. At that time, today's [[Jupiter]] emerged as an independent planet.
	* In the 3rd round the [[Old Moon\|Earlier Lunar State]] was repeated in order to prepare the astral body and the nervous system for the penetration of the ego force. [[Mars]] was then eliminated from the structure in which the [[Sun]], [[Moon]] and [[Earth]] were still united.		* In the 3rd round the [[Old Moon\|Earlier Lunar State]] was repeated in order to prepare the astral body and the nervous system for the penetration of the ego force. [[Mars]] was then eliminated from the structure in which the [[Sun]], [[Moon]] and [[Earth]] were still united.
	* It was not until the 4th round, when the earth had re-emerged from the Pralaya into physical appearance<ref>Each [[round]] passes through seven ~~states of~~ [[~~form~~]], of which only the fourth state physically appears. In the three preceding states, the Earth, which initially still comprises our entire planetary system, descends from the [[Higher Devachan]] ([[arupa]]) via the [[Lower Devachan]] ([[rupa]]) into the [[astral world]].</ref>, that the actual development of the Earth in the narrower sense began. It unfolds in seven [[main ages]] or [[root races]]. In the first main age, the [[Polar Age]], all forces were again united in a single celestial body. Only in the next epoch, the [[Hyperborean Age]], did the [[Sun]] break away from the common structure and then [[Venus]] and [[Mercury]] as well. It is around here, where the Sun and the Earth separated from each other, that the descriptions of the [[Genesis\|biblical story of creation]] begin. For the time being, the Earth remained united with the [[Moon]]. Only when, in the following [[Lemurian Age]], the Moon also separated from the Earth, did the [[mineral kingdom]] (the [[sea of glass]] in the imagery of the Apocalypse) begin to emerge in the form of the first [[crystal]]s; until then the Earth was still in a molten state. At this time, man also entered the Earth for the first time in physical form. When the Sun and Moon separated from the Earth, the so-called [[Mars passage]] also occurred, in which [[Mars]] passed through the Earth in etheric form. This brought [[iron]] into the Earth and made it possible for man to develop the [[sentient soul]]. The Lemurian epoch was followed by the [[Atlantean Age]] and finally the [[post-Atlantean Age]], in which we are still standing now. It is divided into seven [[cultural epochs]]. Our present [[consciousness-soul age]] is the fifth epoch. After the end of the seventh epoch, two more root races will follow ours before the Earth retreats again into the Pralaya. Then a [[Mercury passage]] will also take place, in which the etheric [[Mercury]] will penetrate the Earth, which will then already be in the [[astral]] state. The Mercury forces, however, have been active since the middle of the Atlantean period; through their influence Mercury came to Earth and man was able to develop the [[consciousness soul]] {{GZ\|\|89\|73ff}}.		* It was not until the 4th round, when the earth had re-emerged from the Pralaya into physical appearance<ref>Each [[round]] passes through seven [[Conditions of Form]], of which only the fourth state physically appears. In the three preceding states, the Earth, which initially still comprises our entire planetary system, descends from the [[Higher Devachan]] ([[arupa]]) via the [[Lower Devachan]] ([[rupa]]) into the [[astral world]].</ref>, that the actual development of the Earth in the narrower sense began. It unfolds in seven [[main ages]] or [[root races]]. In the first main age, the [[Polar Age]], all forces were again united in a single celestial body. Only in the next epoch, the [[Hyperborean Age]], did the [[Sun]] break away from the common structure and then [[Venus]] and [[Mercury]] as well. It is around here, where the Sun and the Earth separated from each other, that the descriptions of the [[Genesis\|biblical story of creation]] begin. For the time being, the Earth remained united with the [[Moon]]. Only when, in the following [[Lemurian Age]], the Moon also separated from the Earth, did the [[mineral kingdom]] (the [[sea of glass]] in the imagery of the Apocalypse) begin to emerge in the form of the first [[crystal]]s; until then the Earth was still in a molten state. At this time, man also entered the Earth for the first time in physical form. When the Sun and Moon separated from the Earth, the so-called [[Mars passage]] also occurred, in which [[Mars]] passed through the Earth in etheric form. This brought [[iron]] into the Earth and made it possible for man to develop the [[sentient soul]]. The Lemurian epoch was followed by the [[Atlantean Age]] and finally the [[post-Atlantean Age]], in which we are still standing now. It is divided into seven [[cultural epochs]]. Our present [[consciousness-soul age]] is the fifth epoch. After the end of the seventh epoch, two more root races will follow ours before the Earth retreats again into the Pralaya. Then a [[Mercury passage]] will also take place, in which the etheric [[Mercury]] will penetrate the Earth, which will then already be in the [[astral]] state. The Mercury forces, however, have been active since the middle of the Atlantean period; through their influence Mercury came to Earth and man was able to develop the [[consciousness soul]] {{GZ\|\|89\|73ff}}.
	* In the course of the Earth's evolution, three further rounds will be passed through, in which future states of development of the Earth will be foreshadowed and thus prepared.		* In the course of the Earth's evolution, three further rounds will be passed through, in which future states of development of the Earth will be foreshadowed and thus prepared.

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	In the broadest sense, the [[Earth sphere]] can be defined as any sphere belonging to the Earth that surrounds the centre of the Earth as an approximately spherical area - even far beyond the solid, mineral Earth. In the external [[Geophysics\|geophysical]] sense, this can be the [[w:Atmosphere of Earth\|atmosphere]], [[w:hydrosphere\|hydrosphere]], [[w:cryosphere\|cryosphere]], [[w:biosphere\|biosphere]] and [[w:lithosphere\|lithosphere]] (the uppermost part of which is the [[w:pedosphere\|pedosphere]]) or the solid or plastic Earth made up of concentric shells, which is also called the [[w:geosphere\|geosphere]] and, according to the current view, consists of the [[w:Earth's inner core\|inner]] and [[w:Earth's outer core\|outer core of the Earth]], the [[w:Earth's mantle\|Earth's mantle]] and the [[w:Earth's crust]].		In the broadest sense, the [[Earth sphere]] can be defined as any sphere belonging to the Earth that surrounds the centre of the Earth as an approximately spherical area - even far beyond the solid, mineral Earth. In the external [[Geophysics\|geophysical]] sense, this can be the [[w:Atmosphere of Earth\|atmosphere]], [[w:hydrosphere\|hydrosphere]], [[w:cryosphere\|cryosphere]], [[w:biosphere\|biosphere]] and [[w:lithosphere\|lithosphere]] (the uppermost part of which is the [[w:pedosphere\|pedosphere]]) or the solid or plastic Earth made up of concentric shells, which is also called the [[w:geosphere\|geosphere]] and, according to the current view, consists of the [[w:Earth's inner core\|inner]] and [[w:Earth's outer core\|outer core of the Earth]], the [[w:Earth's mantle\|Earth's mantle]] and the [[w:Earth's crust\|Earth's crust]].

	In the [[anthroposophically]] extended sense, the Earth sphere also includes all spheres that can only be perceived spiritually and that are directly connected with our Earth. These include the nine layers of the [[Earth's interior]], as described by [[Dante Alighieri]] in his "[[Divine Comedy]]" with the [[nine circles of hell]]. Furthermore, the [[etheric sphere]] and the [[astral sphere]] of the Earth should also be mentioned, from whose forces the [[etheric body]] and the [[astral body]] of the earthly embodied [[human being]] are taken. The [[Spirit of Earth]] comprises the totality of all [[spiritual beings]] who have united themselves with the Earth. At its centre is the [[Christ]] Himself, who through the [[Mystery of Golgotha]] has completely united Himself with the evolution of the Earth and of [[man]].		In the [[anthroposophically]] extended sense, the Earth sphere also includes all spheres that can only be perceived spiritually and that are directly connected with our Earth. These include the nine layers of the [[Earth's interior]], as described by [[Dante Alighieri]] in his "[[Divine Comedy]]" with the [[nine circles of hell]]. Furthermore, the [[etheric sphere]] and the [[astral sphere]] of the Earth should also be mentioned, from whose forces the [[etheric body]] and the [[astral body]] of the earthly embodied [[human being]] are taken. The [[Spirit of Earth]] comprises the totality of all [[spiritual beings]] who have united themselves with the Earth. At its centre is the [[Christ]] Himself, who through the [[Mystery of Golgotha]] has completely united Himself with the evolution of the Earth and of [[man]].
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	The inner physical [[w:structure of Earth\|structure of Earth]], which is mainly studied by [[w:geophysics\|geophysics]], namely [[w:seismology\|seismology]], consists, in idealised terms, of concentric spherical shells, each of whose material has a distinctly different density. The spherical shell with the lowest density lies furthest out and is called the [[w:Earth's crust\|Earth's crust]]. This is followed by the [[w:Earth's mantle\|Earth's mantle]]. The spherical shell with the greatest density, actually a full sphere, lies in the centre of the Earth's body and is called the Earth's core. It is divided into a liquid outer core and a solid inner core. From a geophysical point of view, the earth's magnetic field, which penetrates and surrounds the earth, is predominantly caused by the [[w:geodynamo\|geodynamo]] in the liquid outer core of the earth. According to Rudolf Steiner, magnetism is primarily related to the ahrimanic forces.		The inner physical [[w:structure of Earth\|structure of Earth]], which is mainly studied by [[w:geophysics\|geophysics]], namely [[w:seismology\|seismology]], consists, in idealised terms, of concentric spherical shells, each of whose material has a distinctly different density. The spherical shell with the lowest density lies furthest out and is called the [[w:Earth's crust\|Earth's crust]]. This is followed by the [[w:Earth's mantle\|Earth's mantle]]. The spherical shell with the greatest density, actually a full sphere, lies in the centre of the Earth's body and is called the [[w:Earth's core\|Earth's core]]. It is divided into a liquid [[w:Earth's outer core\|outer core]] and a solid [[w:Earth's inner core\|inner core]]. From a geophysical point of view, the earth's magnetic field, which penetrates and surrounds the earth, is predominantly caused by the [[w:geodynamo\|geodynamo]] in the liquid outer core of the earth. According to Rudolf Steiner, magnetism is primarily related to the ahrimanic forces.

	The physical structure of the Earth is not to be confused with the only spiritually perceptible division of the [[Earth's interior]] into nine layers, as described by [[Rudolf Steiner]] and in a somewhat different way by [[Dante Alighieri]] in the Inferno of his "[[Divine Comedy]]".		The physical structure of the Earth is not to be confused with the only spiritually perceptible division of the [[Earth's interior]] into nine layers, as described by [[Rudolf Steiner]] and in a somewhat different way by [[Dante Alighieri]] in the Inferno of his "[[Divine Comedy]]".

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	The inner physical [[w:structure of Earth\|structure of Earth]], which is mainly studied by [[w:geophysics\|geophysics]], namely [[w:seismology\|seismology]], consists, in idealised terms, of concentric spherical shells, each of whose material has a distinctly different density. The spherical shell with the lowest density lies furthest out and is called the [[w:Earth's crust]]. This is followed by the [[w:Earth's mantle\|Earth's mantle]]. The spherical shell with the greatest density, actually a full sphere, lies in the centre of the Earth's body and is called the Earth's core. It is divided into a liquid outer core and a solid inner core. From a geophysical point of view, the earth's magnetic field, which penetrates and surrounds the earth, is predominantly caused by the [[w:geodynamo\|geodynamo]] in the liquid outer core of the earth. According to Rudolf Steiner, magnetism is primarily related to the ahrimanic forces.		The inner physical [[w:structure of Earth\|structure of Earth]], which is mainly studied by [[w:geophysics\|geophysics]], namely [[w:seismology\|seismology]], consists, in idealised terms, of concentric spherical shells, each of whose material has a distinctly different density. The spherical shell with the lowest density lies furthest out and is called the [[w:Earth's crust\|Earth's crust]]. This is followed by the [[w:Earth's mantle\|Earth's mantle]]. The spherical shell with the greatest density, actually a full sphere, lies in the centre of the Earth's body and is called the Earth's core. It is divided into a liquid outer core and a solid inner core. From a geophysical point of view, the earth's magnetic field, which penetrates and surrounds the earth, is predominantly caused by the [[w:geodynamo\|geodynamo]] in the liquid outer core of the earth. According to Rudolf Steiner, magnetism is primarily related to the ahrimanic forces.

	The physical structure of the Earth is not to be confused with the only spiritually perceptible division of the [[Earth's interior]] into nine layers, as described by [[Rudolf Steiner]] and in a somewhat different way by [[Dante Alighieri]] in the Inferno of his "[[Divine Comedy]]".		The physical structure of the Earth is not to be confused with the only spiritually perceptible division of the [[Earth's interior]] into nine layers, as described by [[Rudolf Steiner]] and in a somewhat different way by [[Dante Alighieri]] in the Inferno of his "[[Divine Comedy]]".

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	Once again, take yourself back with me to the oldest Atlantean times, to the time of which we have said that the air was still permeated with water. Man was still built for the water. Only in the middle of Atlantis did he reach the point where he was able to tear himself away from the water and tread solid ground. Up to the time when the Earth was in the middle of its evolution, we must regard water as the carrier of human development just as we would later regard the solid Earth. The solid earth, so to speak, only became the scene of human development at a late stage. It is only half right to speak of the whole of Atlantis as a dry land. In many respects it is not covered by the sea, but by something in the middle, like air, which is densely filled with water, and this water-air belongs to the element in which man lived. Only later did he become able to live in the open air and to stand on solid ground. That was relatively recent. So that when we look at the development of the earth, we can say, symbolically speaking, that we have earth on one side and water on the other. That is the earlier time. And out of the water projects one of the forces up to the first half of the evolution, and out of the earth projects the other of the forces. Up to the middle of the fourth period we speak of the Martian forces, of the forces which, so to speak, the water gives, and we speak of the Mercury forces in the later period, when the solid earth gives the supporting forces. This is quite consistent with the idea that man is supported in his whole earthly mission by two pillars, those two pillars which you saw symbolically at the Munich Congress in the hall. These two pillars represent the two parts of the earth mission, the two inheritances that man has made from earlier times. And above them is symbolised that which is to be achieved through the earth itself: the love which lives, gloriously revealing itself, which is supported by these heritages.\|104\|169ff}}		Once again, take yourself back with me to the oldest Atlantean times, to the time of which we have said that the air was still permeated with water. Man was still built for the water. Only in the middle of Atlantis did he reach the point where he was able to tear himself away from the water and tread solid ground. Up to the time when the Earth was in the middle of its evolution, we must regard water as the carrier of human development just as we would later regard the solid Earth. The solid earth, so to speak, only became the scene of human development at a late stage. It is only half right to speak of the whole of Atlantis as a dry land. In many respects it is not covered by the sea, but by something in the middle, like air, which is densely filled with water, and this water-air belongs to the element in which man lived. Only later did he become able to live in the open air and to stand on solid ground. That was relatively recent. So that when we look at the development of the earth, we can say, symbolically speaking, that we have earth on one side and water on the other. That is the earlier time. And out of the water projects one of the forces up to the first half of the evolution, and out of the earth projects the other of the forces. Up to the middle of the fourth period we speak of the Martian forces, of the forces which, so to speak, the water gives, and we speak of the Mercury forces in the later period, when the solid earth gives the supporting forces. This is quite consistent with the idea that man is supported in his whole earthly mission by two pillars, those two pillars which you saw symbolically at the Munich Congress in the hall. These two pillars represent the two parts of the earth mission, the two inheritances that man has made from earlier times. And above them is symbolised that which is to be achieved through the earth itself: the love which lives, gloriously revealing itself, which is supported by these heritages.\|104\|169ff}}

			== The Aura of the Earth ==
			{{Main\|Aura of the Earth}}

			The aura of the Earth glows bluish-purple in the east and burns and sprays reddish-yellow in the west. In between lies a green belt. The [[Mystery of Golgotha]] has brought about a significant change. In the bluish eastern half, exactly where [[Jerusalem]] lies, a gold star shone with the death of [[Christ]] on the cross, from which the formation of the [[New Jerusalem]] emanates.

			{{GZ\|We get a picture of the earth when we imagine a sphere floating in the space of the world, glowing bluish-violet on one side, burning reddish-yellow on the other, spraying; and between them is a green belt. Figurative ideas gradually carry the human being over into the spiritual world. That is what matters. One is naturally obliged to present such pictorial ideas when one speaks seriously of the spiritual worlds, and it is further necessary that it should not only be believed that such pictorial ideas are some kind of fictions, but one is dependent on something being made of them. - Let us consider once more: the bluish-violet glowing Easter earth, the reddish-yellow spraying West earth. But there are still various differentiations that come into it. When the dead man looks at certain points in our present cycle of time, he sees something of a golden structure, of a golden crystal structure, in the midst of the bluish-purple, which is signed here on earth by the fact that it is Palestine, that it is Jerusalem, and which then comes to life: that is Jerusalem, seen from the spirit! That is what also plays into the Apocalypse - by speaking of imaginations - as "heavenly Jerusalem". These are not imaginary things, they are things that can be seen. Spiritually, it was the same with the Mystery of Golgotha as one can experience in physical observation, when today the astronomer points his telescope out into the space of the world and then looks at what astonishes him, such as the shining of stars. Spiritually, seen from the universe, the event of Golgotha was the shining of a gold star in the blue earth aura of the eastern half of the earth. There you have the imagination for what I developed at the end the day before yesterday. It is really a question of procuring through such imaginations ideas of the universe, which place the human soul in the spirit of this universe.\|181\|174f}}

			{{GGZ\|Where does the blue-violet on one side of the earth aura come from? When one sees this side of the earth's sphere, the physical of the earth, seen from the outside, disappears; it is more the aura of light that becomes transparent, and the dark of the earth disappears. That is what the blue does, what looks through. You can explain this phenomenon from Goethe's theory of colours. But because the interior of the earth sprays up from the western half, so it sprays up that what I described the day before yesterday is true: In America, man is determined by the subterranean, by what is under the earth, therefore the interior of the earth also radiates and sprays out into the universe like a reddish-yellow gleam, like a reddish-yellow spraying fire.\|181\|176}}

			== Man as the fourth hierarchy ==

			On the [[Old Sun]], [[light]] and [[air]] were formed by the beings of the second hierarchy. Compared to the light, the air acted like its shadow, like an element carrying darkness. During the old development of the [[Old Moon\|Moon]], the Angeloi, Archangeloi and Archai, i.e. the third hierarchy, interwove light and [[darkness]]. This gave rise to the colours on the one hand and the water element on the other. The [[sound ether]] has a formative effect in both. Through the human being as the fourth hierarchy - meaning here the original human being before the Fall - [[life]] or the [[life ether]] is added, but also the solid, crystalline [[earth element]].

			{{GZ\|And now comes the fourth hierarchy. I am now telling it as it was thought in the 12th, 13th century. Now comes the fourth hierarchy. We do not speak of it at all, but in the 12th, 13th century people still spoke of this fourth hierarchy very well. What is this fourth hierarchy? It is the human being. Man himself is the fourth hierarchy. But by no means was this fourth hierarchy understood to mean what is now going about in the world as a two-legged, ageing, highly peculiar being, for at that time it was precisely the present human being who appeared to those who actually knew him to be a peculiar being. They have spoken of the original man before the Fall, who still existed in such a form that he had power over the earth just as Angeloi, Archangeloi, Archai had power over lunar existence, just as the Second Hierarchy had power over solar existence, the First Hierarchy had power over Saturnian existence. One spoke of man in his original earthly existence and could then speak of man as the fourth Hierarchy. And with this fourth Hierarchy came, though as a gift from the upper Hierarchies, but like something which the upper Hierarchies first had like a possession, which they guarded, which they did not need themselves: life came. And life came into the colourful world that I have described to you in hints.

			You will say: Didn't things live before? - My dear friends, you can learn how it is from man himself. Your ego and your astral body do not have life and yet they do exist. The spiritual, the psychic does not need life. Life only begins with your etheric body, and it is something outwardly enveloping. And so life, too, only enters the sphere of that evolution to which our Earth belongs after its lunar existence with its earthly existence. The colourful world has been lived through. Not only did the Angeloi, Archangeloi and so on yearn to bring darkness into light, light into darkness, and thus to bring forth the play of colours in the planet, but they also came to experience this play of colours inwardly, to make it inwardly. To experience when darkness inwardly dominates light, to feel weakness, to feel laxity; on the other hand, when light dominates darkness, to feel activity. Because what is it when you walk? When you walk, it is just that light in you dominates darkness; when you sit and are lazy, darkness dominates light. It is the colour work of the soul, the iridescence of the soul. Colour iridescence permeated with life, flowing through, occurred when the fourth Hierarchy, the human being, came. And at this moment of cosmic becoming, the forces that were stirred up in the iridescence of colour began to form contours. Life, which inwardly rounded off the colours, covered them, edged them, called forth the solid crystalline. And we are inside Earth existence.\|233a\|23f}}

	== Literature ==		== Literature ==

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	* It was not until the 4th round, when the earth had re-emerged from the Pralaya into physical appearance<ref>Each [[round]] passes through seven states of [[form]], of which only the fourth state physically appears. In the three preceding states, the Earth, which initially still comprises our entire planetary system, descends from the [[Higher Devachan]] ([[arupa]]) via the [[Lower Devachan]] ([[rupa]]) into the [[astral world]].</ref>, that the actual development of the Earth in the narrower sense began. It unfolds in seven [[main ages]] or [[root races]]. In the first main age, the [[Polar Age]], all forces were again united in a single celestial body. Only in the next epoch, the [[Hyperborean Age]], did the [[Sun]] break away from the common structure and then [[Venus]] and [[Mercury]] as well. It is around here, where the Sun and the Earth separated from each other, that the descriptions of the [[Genesis\|biblical story of creation]] begin. For the time being, the Earth remained united with the [[Moon]]. Only when, in the following [[Lemurian Age]], the Moon also separated from the Earth, did the [[mineral kingdom]] (the [[sea of glass]] in the imagery of the Apocalypse) begin to emerge in the form of the first [[crystal]]s; until then the Earth was still in a molten state. At this time, man also entered the Earth for the first time in physical form. When the Sun and Moon separated from the Earth, the so-called [[Mars passage]] also occurred, in which [[Mars]] passed through the Earth in etheric form. This brought [[iron]] into the Earth and made it possible for man to develop the [[sentient soul]]. The Lemurian epoch was followed by the [[Atlantean Age]] and finally the [[post-Atlantean Age]], in which we are still standing now. It is divided into seven [[cultural epochs]]. Our present [[consciousness-soul age]] is the fifth epoch. After the end of the seventh epoch, two more root races will follow ours before the Earth retreats again into the Pralaya. Then a [[Mercury passage]] will also take place, in which the etheric [[Mercury]] will penetrate the Earth, which will then already be in the [[astral]] state. The Mercury forces, however, have been active since the middle of the Atlantean period; through their influence Mercury came to Earth and man was able to develop the [[consciousness soul]] {{GZ\|\|89\|73ff}}.		* It was not until the 4th round, when the earth had re-emerged from the Pralaya into physical appearance<ref>Each [[round]] passes through seven states of [[form]], of which only the fourth state physically appears. In the three preceding states, the Earth, which initially still comprises our entire planetary system, descends from the [[Higher Devachan]] ([[arupa]]) via the [[Lower Devachan]] ([[rupa]]) into the [[astral world]].</ref>, that the actual development of the Earth in the narrower sense began. It unfolds in seven [[main ages]] or [[root races]]. In the first main age, the [[Polar Age]], all forces were again united in a single celestial body. Only in the next epoch, the [[Hyperborean Age]], did the [[Sun]] break away from the common structure and then [[Venus]] and [[Mercury]] as well. It is around here, where the Sun and the Earth separated from each other, that the descriptions of the [[Genesis\|biblical story of creation]] begin. For the time being, the Earth remained united with the [[Moon]]. Only when, in the following [[Lemurian Age]], the Moon also separated from the Earth, did the [[mineral kingdom]] (the [[sea of glass]] in the imagery of the Apocalypse) begin to emerge in the form of the first [[crystal]]s; until then the Earth was still in a molten state. At this time, man also entered the Earth for the first time in physical form. When the Sun and Moon separated from the Earth, the so-called [[Mars passage]] also occurred, in which [[Mars]] passed through the Earth in etheric form. This brought [[iron]] into the Earth and made it possible for man to develop the [[sentient soul]]. The Lemurian epoch was followed by the [[Atlantean Age]] and finally the [[post-Atlantean Age]], in which we are still standing now. It is divided into seven [[cultural epochs]]. Our present [[consciousness-soul age]] is the fifth epoch. After the end of the seventh epoch, two more root races will follow ours before the Earth retreats again into the Pralaya. Then a [[Mercury passage]] will also take place, in which the etheric [[Mercury]] will penetrate the Earth, which will then already be in the [[astral]] state. The Mercury forces, however, have been active since the middle of the Atlantean period; through their influence Mercury came to Earth and man was able to develop the [[consciousness soul]] {{GZ\|\|89\|73ff}}.
	* In the course of the Earth's evolution, three further rounds will be passed through, in which future states of development of the Earth will be foreshadowed and thus prepared.		* In the course of the Earth's evolution, three further rounds will be passed through, in which future states of development of the Earth will be foreshadowed and thus prepared.

			=== Mars and Mercury - the two halves of the Earth's evolution ===

			The Earth's evolution is divided into two halves, which have already been indicated above by the [[passage of Mars]], which has already taken place in the past, and the future [[passage of Mercury]]. They were represented by the two pillars [[Jachin]] and [[Boaz]], which stood at the entrance gate of [[Solomon's temple]]. The principle of these two pillars also underlies the fourth seal image in the [[Revelation of John]], but here in the form of an [[angel]] with feet like pillars of fire. The left pillar (Jakim) stands on the sea, which symbolises the moving [[astral world]], the right one (Boaz) rests on the solid land. [[Mars]] gives the Earth the powers that were already developed on the [[Old Sun]], the [[Cosmos of Strength]]. Mercury stands for wisdom, which was first formed on the [[Old Moon]] and which is therefore also called the [[Cosmos of Wisdom]].

			{{GZ\|Our development on Earth is based on two things. Our Earth was preceded by what we call the Cosmos of Wisdom, and it was preceded by what we call - the word does not say much, of course, but we must use it because it has become common - the Cosmos of Strength, of Power. Wisdom and strength are what the Earth has inherited from earlier stages of evolution, from the Old Moon and the Old Sun. We shall see how this is also expressed within our earthly evolution by the fact that we name the first half of the earth's evolution after the representative of solar power, Mars. For now we need only consider that within our earthly evolution we have in Mars that which implanted iron in the Earth. We see in Mars the bringer of strength. And in that which dominates the second half of the earth's evolution we have the representative of the old lunar evolution, Mercury, which imparts to the earth the old inheritance of the moon, wisdom. Thus the evolution of the earth is composed of the evolution of Mars and Mercury. It has inherited two strong, powerful forces. That which it has inherited from the cosmos of strength is expressed in Mars, and that which it has inherited from the cosmos of wisdom is expressed in Mercury. It, the earth itself, is to bring love through its mission. This love is to reveal itself gloriously as the result of the Earth's development. This is a very profound thought of the apocalyptic. This is the profound thought which also ties in with the whole of the remaining earthly development. (See the fourth seal image).

			Once again, take yourself back with me to the oldest Atlantean times, to the time of which we have said that the air was still permeated with water. Man was still built for the water. Only in the middle of Atlantis did he reach the point where he was able to tear himself away from the water and tread solid ground. Up to the time when the Earth was in the middle of its evolution, we must regard water as the carrier of human development just as we would later regard the solid Earth. The solid earth, so to speak, only became the scene of human development at a late stage. It is only half right to speak of the whole of Atlantis as a dry land. In many respects it is not covered by the sea, but by something in the middle, like air, which is densely filled with water, and this water-air belongs to the element in which man lived. Only later did he become able to live in the open air and to stand on solid ground. That was relatively recent. So that when we look at the development of the earth, we can say, symbolically speaking, that we have earth on one side and water on the other. That is the earlier time. And out of the water projects one of the forces up to the first half of the evolution, and out of the earth projects the other of the forces. Up to the middle of the fourth period we speak of the Martian forces, of the forces which, so to speak, the water gives, and we speak of the Mercury forces in the later period, when the solid earth gives the supporting forces. This is quite consistent with the idea that man is supported in his whole earthly mission by two pillars, those two pillars which you saw symbolically at the Munich Congress in the hall. These two pillars represent the two parts of the earth mission, the two inheritances that man has made from earlier times. And above them is symbolised that which is to be achieved through the earth itself: the love which lives, gloriously revealing itself, which is supported by these heritages.\|104\|169ff}}

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	==== The daily and annual motion of the Earth ====		==== The daily and annual motion of the Earth ====

	The Earth moves in the [[w:Heliocentrism\|copernican system]] [[w:prograde\|prograde]] on the approximately elliptical '''Earth's orbit'''' at an average distance of 149.6 million km around the [[Sun]]. The plane in which the Earth's orbit lies is called the [[ecliptic]]. The [[w:sderial period\|sderial period]] of the Earth measured at the [[w:fixed stars\|fixed stars]] background is about 365.256 days. The '''sidereal year''' (also called '''stellar year'''), with 365 days, 6 hours, 9 minutes and 9.54 seconds, is 20 minutes and 24 seconds longer than the '''tropical year''', which is counted from [[spring equinox]] to spring equinox and forms the basis of the civil [[w:calendar\|calendar]] with 365 or 366 days ([[w:leap year\|leap year]]).		The Earth moves in the [[w:Heliocentrism\|copernican system]] [[w:prograde\|prograde]] on the approximately elliptical '''Earth's orbit'''' at an average distance of 149.6 million km around the [[Sun]]. The plane in which the Earth's orbit lies is called the [[w:ecliptic\|ecliptic]]. The [[w:sderial period\|sderial period]] of the Earth measured at the [[w:fixed stars\|fixed stars]] background is about 365.256 days. The '''sidereal year''' (also called '''stellar year'''), with 365 days, 6 hours, 9 minutes and 9.54 seconds, is 20 minutes and 24 seconds longer than the '''tropical year''', which is counted from [[spring equinox]] to spring equinox and forms the basis of the civil [[w:calendar\|calendar]] with 365 or 366 days ([[w:leap year\|leap year]]).

	The earth rotates relative to the fixed stars sky [[prograde]] in eastern direction once in 23 hours, 56 minutes and 4.10 seconds. This time span is a [[w:sideral day\|sideral day]]. Because the Earth also continues to move along its orbit at the same time, it is somewhat shorter than the [[w:true solar day\|true solar day]], the time span between two meridian passages of the Sun, which approximately corresponds to the time between two solar zeniths. Due to the Earth's orbital motion, its length varies slightly over the course of a year. Its annual average, the [[w:mean solar day\|mean solar day]], is fixed at 24 hours, which in turn are divided into 60 minutes each and these in turn into 60 seconds each. In total, a [[day]] therefore has 86,400 seconds.		The earth rotates relative to the fixed stars sky [[w:prograde\|prograde]] in eastern direction once in 23 hours, 56 minutes and 4.10 seconds. This time span is a [[w:sideral day\|sideral day]]. Because the Earth also continues to move along its orbit at the same time, it is somewhat shorter than the [[w:true solar day\|true solar day]], the time span between two meridian passages of the Sun, which approximately corresponds to the time between two solar zeniths. Due to the Earth's orbital motion, its length varies slightly over the course of a year. Its annual average, the [[w:mean solar day\|mean solar day]], is fixed at 24 hours, which in turn are divided into 60 minutes each and these in turn into 60 seconds each. In total, a [[day]] therefore has 86,400 seconds.

	The '''Earth's axis''' pierces the Earth's surface at the two '''geographic poles''', the geographic '''North Pole''' and the geographic '''South Pole'''. The '''geomagnetic poles''' currently deviate from this by about 11.5 °. The Earth's axis is inclined at 23°26' to the Earth's orbit. As a result, the Sun shines differently on the northern and southern hemispheres of the Earth during the course of the year, resulting in the [[seasons]] that shape the Earth's [[climate]]. They not only have a decisive influence on earthly [[life]], but also impulse the [[mood]] of the human [[soul]] in a very differentiated way. How differently the soul sounds in the course of the year becomes clear from the weekly verses of the [[soul calendar]]s given by [[Rudolf Steiner]].		The '''Earth's axis''' pierces the Earth's surface at the two '''geographic poles''', the geographic '''North Pole''' and the geographic '''South Pole'''. The '''geomagnetic poles''' currently deviate from this by about 11.5 °. The Earth's axis is inclined at 23°26' to the Earth's orbit. As a result, the Sun shines differently on the northern and southern hemispheres of the Earth during the course of the year, resulting in the [[seasons]] that shape the Earth's [[climate]]. They not only have a decisive influence on earthly [[life]], but also impulse the [[mood]] of the human [[soul]] in a very differentiated way. How differently the soul sounds in the course of the year becomes clear from the weekly verses of the [[soul calendar]]s given by [[Rudolf Steiner]].
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	The inner physical [[w:structure of Earth\|structure of Earth]], which is mainly studied by [[w:geophysics\|geophysics]], namely [[w:seismology\|seismology]], consists, in idealised terms, of concentric spherical shells, each of whose material has a distinctly different density. The spherical shell with the lowest density lies furthest out and is called the [[w:Earth's crust]]. This is followed by the [[w:Earth's mantle\|Earth's mantle]]. The spherical shell with the greatest density, actually a full sphere, lies in the centre of the Earth's body and is called the Earth's core. It is divided into a liquid outer core and a solid inner core. From a geophysical point of view, the earth's magnetic field, which penetrates and surrounds the earth, is predominantly caused by the [[w:geodynamo\|geodynamo]] in the liquid outer core of the earth. According to Rudolf Steiner, magnetism is primarily related to the ahrimanic forces.		The inner physical [[w:structure of Earth\|structure of Earth]], which is mainly studied by [[w:geophysics\|geophysics]], namely [[w:seismology\|seismology]], consists, in idealised terms, of concentric spherical shells, each of whose material has a distinctly different density. The spherical shell with the lowest density lies furthest out and is called the [[w:Earth's crust]]. This is followed by the [[w:Earth's mantle\|Earth's mantle]]. The spherical shell with the greatest density, actually a full sphere, lies in the centre of the Earth's body and is called the Earth's core. It is divided into a liquid outer core and a solid inner core. From a geophysical point of view, the earth's magnetic field, which penetrates and surrounds the earth, is predominantly caused by the [[w:geodynamo\|geodynamo]] in the liquid outer core of the earth. According to Rudolf Steiner, magnetism is primarily related to the ahrimanic forces.

	The physical structure of the Earth is not to be confused with the only spiritually perceptible division of the [[Earth's interior]] into nine layers, as described by [[Rudolf Steiner]] and in a somewhat different way by [[Dante Alighieri]] in the Inferno of his "[[Divine Comedy]]".		The physical structure of the Earth is not to be confused with the only spiritually perceptible division of the [[Earth's interior]] into nine layers, as described by [[Rudolf Steiner]] and in a somewhat different way by [[Dante Alighieri]] in the Inferno of his "[[Divine Comedy]]".

	== Earth evolution ==		== Earth evolution ==

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	In the [[anthroposophically]] extended sense, the Earth sphere also includes all spheres that can only be perceived spiritually and that are directly connected with our Earth. These include the nine layers of the [[Earth's interior]], as described by [[Dante Alighieri]] in his "[[Divine Comedy]]" with the [[nine circles of hell]]. Furthermore, the [[etheric sphere]] and the [[astral sphere]] of the Earth should also be mentioned, from whose forces the [[etheric body]] and the [[astral body]] of the earthly embodied [[human being]] are taken. The [[Spirit of Earth]] comprises the totality of all [[spiritual beings]] who have united themselves with the Earth. At its centre is the [[Christ]] Himself, who through the [[Mystery of Golgotha]] has completely united Himself with the evolution of the Earth and of [[man]].		In the [[anthroposophically]] extended sense, the Earth sphere also includes all spheres that can only be perceived spiritually and that are directly connected with our Earth. These include the nine layers of the [[Earth's interior]], as described by [[Dante Alighieri]] in his "[[Divine Comedy]]" with the [[nine circles of hell]]. Furthermore, the [[etheric sphere]] and the [[astral sphere]] of the Earth should also be mentioned, from whose forces the [[etheric body]] and the [[astral body]] of the earthly embodied [[human being]] are taken. The [[Spirit of Earth]] comprises the totality of all [[spiritual beings]] who have united themselves with the Earth. At its centre is the [[Christ]] Himself, who through the [[Mystery of Golgotha]] has completely united Himself with the evolution of the Earth and of [[man]].

			=== Properties of the physical earth ===

			Earth is the [[w:Heliocentrism\|heliocentric]] view, the densest, fifth largest and third closest [[planet]] to the [[Sun]] in our [[solar system]] and has a diameter of more than 12,700 kilometres. Its age is now estimated at about 4.6 billion years. The '''Earth's mass''' (short '''''M''<sub>⊕</sub>'', sometimes ''M''<sub>E</sub>) is about 5.9722-10<sup>24</sup> kg (5.97 quadrillion tonnes).<ref>[http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Object=Earth&Display=Facts Earth: Facts & Figures]@solarsystem.nasa. gov/planets, retrieved 29 October 2014.</ref> Since the '''Earth's surface''' is about 2/3 covered with [[water]] and therefore appears predominantly [[blue]] when seen from space, it has also been called the '''Blue Planet''' since the era of [[w:List of human spaceflight programs\|manned space flight]].

			==== The daily and annual motion of the Earth ====

			The Earth moves in the [[w:Heliocentrism\|copernican system]] [[w:prograde\|prograde]] on the approximately elliptical '''Earth's orbit'''' at an average distance of 149.6 million km around the [[Sun]]. The plane in which the Earth's orbit lies is called the [[ecliptic]]. The [[w:sderial period\|sderial period]] of the Earth measured at the [[w:fixed stars\|fixed stars]] background is about 365.256 days. The '''sidereal year''' (also called '''stellar year'''), with 365 days, 6 hours, 9 minutes and 9.54 seconds, is 20 minutes and 24 seconds longer than the '''tropical year''', which is counted from [[spring equinox]] to spring equinox and forms the basis of the civil [[w:calendar\|calendar]] with 365 or 366 days ([[w:leap year\|leap year]]).

			The earth rotates relative to the fixed stars sky [[prograde]] in eastern direction once in 23 hours, 56 minutes and 4.10 seconds. This time span is a [[w:sideral day\|sideral day]]. Because the Earth also continues to move along its orbit at the same time, it is somewhat shorter than the [[w:true solar day\|true solar day]], the time span between two meridian passages of the Sun, which approximately corresponds to the time between two solar zeniths. Due to the Earth's orbital motion, its length varies slightly over the course of a year. Its annual average, the [[w:mean solar day\|mean solar day]], is fixed at 24 hours, which in turn are divided into 60 minutes each and these in turn into 60 seconds each. In total, a [[day]] therefore has 86,400 seconds.

			The '''Earth's axis''' pierces the Earth's surface at the two '''geographic poles''', the geographic '''North Pole''' and the geographic '''South Pole'''. The '''geomagnetic poles''' currently deviate from this by about 11.5 °. The Earth's axis is inclined at 23°26' to the Earth's orbit. As a result, the Sun shines differently on the northern and southern hemispheres of the Earth during the course of the year, resulting in the [[seasons]] that shape the Earth's [[climate]]. They not only have a decisive influence on earthly [[life]], but also impulse the [[mood]] of the human [[soul]] in a very differentiated way. How differently the soul sounds in the course of the year becomes clear from the weekly verses of the [[soul calendar]]s given by [[Rudolf Steiner]].

			[[File:Seasons1.svg\|center\|600px\|The seasons and some of Earth's orbit's characteristics. The elliptical form is strongly exaggerated.]]

			==== The inner physical structure of the Earth ====

			The inner physical [[w:structure of Earth\|structure of Earth]], which is mainly studied by [[w:geophysics\|geophysics]], namely [[w:seismology\|seismology]], consists, in idealised terms, of concentric spherical shells, each of whose material has a distinctly different density. The spherical shell with the lowest density lies furthest out and is called the [[w:Earth's crust]]. This is followed by the [[w:Earth's mantle\|Earth's mantle]]. The spherical shell with the greatest density, actually a full sphere, lies in the centre of the Earth's body and is called the Earth's core. It is divided into a liquid outer core and a solid inner core. From a geophysical point of view, the earth's magnetic field, which penetrates and surrounds the earth, is predominantly caused by the [[w:geodynamo\|geodynamo]] in the liquid outer core of the earth. According to Rudolf Steiner, magnetism is primarily related to the ahrimanic forces.

			The physical structure of the Earth is not to be confused with the only spiritually perceptible division of the [[Earth's interior]] into nine layers, as described by [[Rudolf Steiner]] and in a somewhat different way by [[Dante Alighieri]] in the Inferno of his "[[Divine Comedy]]".

	== Earth evolution ==		== Earth evolution ==