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	* [[a:Adolf Baumann\|Adolf Baumann]]: ''ABC der Anthroposophie'', ISBN 3-7214-0688-5;		* [[a:Adolf Baumann\|Adolf Baumann]]: ''ABC der Anthroposophie'', ISBN 3-7214-0688-5;
	* [[a:Dankmar Bosse]]: ''Die gemeinsame Evolution von Erde und Mensch. Entwurf einer Geologie und Paläontologie der lebendigen Erde'', ISBN 3-7725-1593-2;		* [[a:Dankmar Bosse\|Dankmar Bosse]]: ''Die gemeinsame Evolution von Erde und Mensch. Entwurf einer Geologie und Paläontologie der lebendigen Erde'', ISBN 3-7725-1593-2;
	* Andreas Delor: ''Kampf um Atlantis. Ein Beitrag zur anthroposophischen Atlantis-Diskussion'', ISBN 3-924391-30-0;		* Andreas Delor: ''Kampf um Atlantis. Ein Beitrag zur anthroposophischen Atlantis-Diskussion'', ISBN 3-924391-30-0;
	* Gisela Gorrissen: ''Astrosophie des Tierkreises und der Planeten. Der Mensch im Spannungsfeld zwischen Kosmos und Erde'', ISBN 3-8251-7254-6		* Gisela Gorrissen: ''Astrosophie des Tierkreises und der Planeten. Der Mensch im Spannungsfeld zwischen Kosmos und Erde'', ISBN 3-8251-7254-6

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	That is why it is so urgently necessary to understand that our anthroposophical movement is a spiritual one, which looks to the spiritual, and overcomes precisely that which stems from physical differences through the power of the spiritual movement. It is quite understandable that every movement has its teething troubles, so to speak, and that in the beginning of the Theosophical Movement the matter was presented in such a way as if, so to speak, the earth were divided into seven periods of time - they called them main races - and each of the main races into seven sub-races; and that all this would repeat itself so steadily that one could always speak of seven races and seven sub-races. But one must get beyond the infantile diseases and be clear about the fact that the concept of race ceases to have any meaning, especially in our time.\|117\|152}}		That is why it is so urgently necessary to understand that our anthroposophical movement is a spiritual one, which looks to the spiritual, and overcomes precisely that which stems from physical differences through the power of the spiritual movement. It is quite understandable that every movement has its teething troubles, so to speak, and that in the beginning of the Theosophical Movement the matter was presented in such a way as if, so to speak, the earth were divided into seven periods of time - they called them main races - and each of the main races into seven sub-races; and that all this would repeat itself so steadily that one could always speak of seven races and seven sub-races. But one must get beyond the infantile diseases and be clear about the fact that the concept of race ceases to have any meaning, especially in our time.\|117\|152}}

			In his ''Outline of Occult Science'' {{GZ\|\|13}} and in ''Cosmic Memory'' {{GZ\|\|11}} Rudolf Steiner has discussed the earlier states of the Earth in detail, so that a brief overview may suffice here:

			::#[[Polar epoch]]
			::#[[Hyperborean epoch]] (Exit of the [[Earth]] from the [[Sun]])
			::#[[Lemurian epoch]] ([[Moon]]'s exit)
			::#[[Atlantis]] (Atlantis perishes with the Flood)
			::#[[Aryans]] (the 7 "communities" or [[cultural epochs]] of the [[post-Atlantean period]])
			::#[[Sixth Main Age]] (epoch of the 7 seals; re-entry of the [[Moon]])
			::#[[Seventh Main Age]] (time of the 7 trumpets; reunion with the [[Sun]])

	==Literature==		==Literature==

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	Before the actual [[Earth evolution]] could begin, the [[Old Saturn]], [[Old Sun]] and [[Old Moon]] states (→ [[World evolution]]) were repeated in abbreviated form. Earth evolution in the narrower sense only began afterwards and is divided into 7 '''main ages''' or '''root races''', whereby the term "[[race]]" may only be understood in a figurative sense here. For if "race" denotes a specific formation of the [[physical body]], it is only since the later [[Lemuria]] that one can speak of the very first races, for it was only since this time that man was embodied on Earth at all. The concept of race only attained special significance on ancient [[Atlantis]], which served primarily to regulate the formation of races. The division of humanity into individual races achieved there continues to have an effect up to the present day, but will become increasingly insignificant in the future. Instead of speaking of root races, it would therefore be better to speak of great human and earth-historical epochs of development. In fact, [[Rudolf Steiner]] hardly ever used this terminology, which originated in the Theosophical Society, later on.		Before the actual [[Earth evolution]] could begin, the [[Old Saturn]], [[Old Sun]] and [[Old Moon]] states (→ [[World evolution]]) were repeated in abbreviated form. Earth evolution in the narrower sense only began afterwards and is divided into 7 '''main ages''' or '''root races'''. Furthermore, the root races were divided into seven '''sub-races''' or '''sub-ages''', whereby the term "[[race]]" may only be understood in a figurative sense here. For if "race" denotes a specific formation of the [[physical body]], it is only since the later [[Lemuria]] that one can speak of the very first races, for it was only since this time that man was embodied on Earth at all. The concept of race only attained special significance on ancient [[Atlantis]], which served primarily to regulate the formation of races. The division of humanity into individual races achieved there continues to have an effect up to the present day, but will become increasingly insignificant in the future. Instead of speaking of root races, it would therefore be better to speak of great human and earth-historical epochs of development. In fact, [[Rudolf Steiner]] hardly ever used this terminology, which originated in the Theosophical Society, later on.

	{{GZ\|If remnants of the old Atlantean differences, of the old Atlantean group soulfulness still exist in our time, so that one can still speak of the racial division still having an effect - what is preparing for the sixth period consists precisely in the fact that the racial character is being stripped away. That is the essential thing. That is why it is necessary that the movement which is called anthroposophical, which is to prepare for the sixth period, should take up in its basic character this stripping away of the racial character, namely that it should seek to unite people from all races, from all nations, and in this way bridge this differentiation, these differences, these chasms which exist between the individual groups of people. For it has in a certain respect a physical character, which is an old racial standpoint, and it will have a much more spiritual character, which will take place in the future.		{{GZ\|If remnants of the old Atlantean differences, of the old Atlantean group soulfulness still exist in our time, so that one can still speak of the racial division still having an effect - what is preparing for the sixth period consists precisely in the fact that the racial character is being stripped away. That is the essential thing. That is why it is necessary that the movement which is called anthroposophical, which is to prepare for the sixth period, should take up in its basic character this stripping away of the racial character, namely that it should seek to unite people from all races, from all nations, and in this way bridge this differentiation, these differences, these chasms which exist between the individual groups of people. For it has in a certain respect a physical character, which is an old racial standpoint, and it will have a much more spiritual character, which will take place in the future.

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	Before the actual [[Earth evolution]] could begin, the [[Old Saturn]], [[Old Sun]] and [[Old Moon]] states (→ [[World evolution]]) were repeated in abbreviated form. Earth evolution in the narrower sense only began afterwards and is divided into 7 '''main ages''' or '''root races''', whereby the term "[[race]]" may only be understood in a figurative sense here. For if "race" denotes a specific formation of the [[physical body]], it is only since the later [[Lemuria]] that one can speak of the very first races, for it was only since this time that man was embodied on Earth at all. The concept of race only attained special significance on ancient [[Atlantis]], which served primarily to regulate the formation of races. The division of humanity into individual races achieved there continues to have an effect up to the present day, but will become increasingly insignificant in the future. Instead of speaking of root races, it would therefore be better to speak of great human and earth-historical epochs of development. In fact, [[Rudolf Steiner]] hardly ever used this terminology, which originated in the Theosophical Society, later on.		Before the actual [[Earth evolution]] could begin, the [[Old Saturn]], [[Old Sun]] and [[Old Moon]] states (→ [[World evolution]]) were repeated in abbreviated form. Earth evolution in the narrower sense only began afterwards and is divided into 7 '''main ages''' or '''root races''', whereby the term "[[race]]" may only be understood in a figurative sense here. For if "race" denotes a specific formation of the [[physical body]], it is only since the later [[Lemuria]] that one can speak of the very first races, for it was only since this time that man was embodied on Earth at all. The concept of race only attained special significance on ancient [[Atlantis]], which served primarily to regulate the formation of races. The division of humanity into individual races achieved there continues to have an effect up to the present day, but will become increasingly insignificant in the future. Instead of speaking of root races, it would therefore be better to speak of great human and earth-historical epochs of development. In fact, [[Rudolf Steiner]] hardly ever used this terminology, which originated in the Theosophical Society, later on.

			{{GZ\|If remnants of the old Atlantean differences, of the old Atlantean group soulfulness still exist in our time, so that one can still speak of the racial division still having an effect - what is preparing for the sixth period consists precisely in the fact that the racial character is being stripped away. That is the essential thing. That is why it is necessary that the movement which is called anthroposophical, which is to prepare for the sixth period, should take up in its basic character this stripping away of the racial character, namely that it should seek to unite people from all races, from all nations, and in this way bridge this differentiation, these differences, these chasms which exist between the individual groups of people. For it has in a certain respect a physical character, which is an old racial standpoint, and it will have a much more spiritual character, which will take place in the future.

			That is why it is so urgently necessary to understand that our anthroposophical movement is a spiritual one, which looks to the spiritual, and overcomes precisely that which stems from physical differences through the power of the spiritual movement. It is quite understandable that every movement has its teething troubles, so to speak, and that in the beginning of the Theosophical Movement the matter was presented in such a way as if, so to speak, the earth were divided into seven periods of time - they called them main races - and each of the main races into seven sub-races; and that all this would repeat itself so steadily that one could always speak of seven races and seven sub-races. But one must get beyond the infantile diseases and be clear about the fact that the concept of race ceases to have any meaning, especially in our time.\|117\|152}}

	==Literature==		==Literature==
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	* Hans-Jürgen Bader/Manfred Leist/Lorenzo Ravagli: ''Rassenideale sind der Niedergang der Menschheit. Anthroposophie und der Antisemitismusvorwurf'', ISBN 3-7725-1916-4		* Hans-Jürgen Bader/Manfred Leist/Lorenzo Ravagli: ''Rassenideale sind der Niedergang der Menschheit. Anthroposophie und der Antisemitismusvorwurf'', ISBN 3-7725-1916-4
	** Hans-Jürgen Bader/Lorenzo Ravagli: ''Rassenideale sind der Niedergang der Menschheit. Anthroposophie und der Rassismusvorwurf'', ISBN 3-7725-1917-2		** Hans-Jürgen Bader/Lorenzo Ravagli: ''Rassenideale sind der Niedergang der Menschheit. Anthroposophie und der Rassismusvorwurf'', ISBN 3-7725-1917-2
	* [[Rudolf Steiner]]: ''Aus der Akasha-Chronik'', [[GA 11]] (1986) {{~~Schriften~~\|11}}		* [[Rudolf Steiner]]: ''Aus der Akasha-Chronik'', [[GA 11]] (1986) {{Lectures\|11}}
	* [[Rudolf Steiner]]: ''Die Geheimwissenschaft im Umriß'', [[GA 13]] (1989) {{~~Schriften~~\|13}}		* [[Rudolf Steiner]]: ''Die Geheimwissenschaft im Umriß'', [[GA 13]] (1989) {{Lectures\|13}}
	* [[Rudolf Steiner]]: Grundelemente der Esoterik ([[GA 93a]]), insbesondere S. 229 {{~~Vorträge~~\|93a}}		* [[Rudolf Steiner]]: Grundelemente der Esoterik ([[GA 93a]]), insbesondere S. 229 {{Lectures\|93a}}
	* [[Rudolf Steiner]]: ''Die tieferen Geheimnisse des Menschheitswerdens im Lichte der Evangelien'', [[GA 117]] (1986), ISBN 3-7274-1170-8 {{~~Vorträge~~\|117}}		* [[Rudolf Steiner]]: ''Die tieferen Geheimnisse des Menschheitswerdens im Lichte der Evangelien'', [[GA 117]] (1986), ISBN 3-7274-1170-8 {{Lectures\|117}}

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Before the actual [[Earth evolution]] could begin, the [[Old Saturn]], [[Old Sun]] and [[Old Moon]] states (→ [[World evolution]]) were repeated in abbreviated form. Earth evolution in the narrower sense only began afterwards and is divided into 7 '''main ages''' or '''root races''', whereby the term "[[race]]" may only be understood in a figurative sense here. For if "race" denotes a specific formation of the [[physical body]], it is only since the later [[Lemuria]] that one can speak of the very first races, for it was only since this time that man was embodied on Earth at all. The concept of race only attained special significance on ancient [[Atlantis]], which served primarily to regulate the formation of races. The division of humanity into individual races achieved there continues to have an effect up to the present day, but will become increasingly insignificant in the future. Instead of speaking of root races, it would therefore be better to speak of great human and earth-historical epochs of development. In fact, [[Rudolf Steiner]] hardly ever used this terminology, which originated in the Theosophical Society, later on.

==Literature==

* [[a:Adolf Baumann|Adolf Baumann]]: ''ABC der Anthroposophie'', ISBN 3-7214-0688-5;
* [[a:Dankmar Bosse]]: ''Die gemeinsame Evolution von Erde und Mensch. Entwurf einer Geologie und Paläontologie der lebendigen Erde'', ISBN 3-7725-1593-2;
* Andreas Delor: ''Kampf um Atlantis. Ein Beitrag zur anthroposophischen Atlantis-Diskussion'', ISBN 3-924391-30-0;
* Gisela Gorrissen: ''Astrosophie des Tierkreises und der Planeten. Der Mensch im Spannungsfeld zwischen Kosmos und Erde'', ISBN 3-8251-7254-6
* Caroline von Heydebrand: ''Vom Lehrplan der Freien Waldorfschule'',ISBN 3772502008
* Martin Freksa: ''Das verlorene Atlantis. Die Geschichte der Auflösung eines alten Rätsels'', ISBN 3-86150-301-8
* Murry Hope: ''Atlantis. Legende, Mythos und Wirklichkeit des versunkenen Kontinents'', ISBN 3-453-14783-9
* Hans-Jürgen Bader/Manfred Leist/Lorenzo Ravagli: ''Rassenideale sind der Niedergang der Menschheit. Anthroposophie und der Antisemitismusvorwurf'', ISBN 3-7725-1916-4
** Hans-Jürgen Bader/Lorenzo Ravagli: ''Rassenideale sind der Niedergang der Menschheit. Anthroposophie und der Rassismusvorwurf'', ISBN 3-7725-1917-2
* [[Rudolf Steiner]]: ''Aus der Akasha-Chronik'', [[GA 11]] (1986) {{Schriften|11}}
* [[Rudolf Steiner]]: ''Die Geheimwissenschaft im Umriß'', [[GA 13]] (1989) {{Schriften|13}}
* [[Rudolf Steiner]]: Grundelemente der Esoterik ([[GA 93a]]), insbesondere S. 229 {{Vorträge|93a}}
* [[Rudolf Steiner]]: ''Die tieferen Geheimnisse des Menschheitswerdens im Lichte der Evangelien'', [[GA 117]] (1986), ISBN 3-7274-1170-8 {{Vorträge|117}}

{{GA}}

=== Criticism ===
* Peter Bierl: ''Wurzelrassen, Erzengel und Volksgeister. Die Anthroposophie Rudolf Steiners und die Waldorfpädagogik'', ISBN 3894581719;
* Jutta Ditfurth: ''Feuer in die Herzen'', Konkret-Literatur-Verlag 1997,ISBN 389458159X
* [http://www.akdh.ch/ps/ps_74-Wurzelrassen.html Die Wurzelrassen-Lehre als ein zentrales Element anthroposophischer Weltanschauung] (Peter Bierl)

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