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	In the future, sexual reproduction will again give way to asexual reproduction. At that time, the Moon will reunite with the Earth.		In the future, sexual reproduction will again give way to asexual reproduction. At that time, the Moon will reunite with the Earth.

			== The transition from asexual to sexual reproduction ==

			In the [[Polar epoch]], man entered the [[Earth]] as an astral being that had come over from the [[Old Moon\|Old Lunar evolution]]. These astral beings were the ancestors of [[man]]; they did not yet carry the [[self-conscious]] spirit within them. It was not until the middle of the Lemurian period that the spirit united with the being that had emerged from that ancestor. The astral beings were first enveloped in an [[etheric body]]. This was elongated-elliptical and showed limbs and the later organs as fine shadings. When this body, completely dominated by the soul, had reached a certain size, it split into two daughter beings, which were equally gifted with souls as the mother being. This was possible because it was not only a certain number of human [[soul]]s that entered the earthly arena but, as it were, a soul tree that could let uncounted individual souls emerge from its common root.

			The Earth became more and more condensed and in the following [[Hyperborean epoch]] the soul lost the ability to form the substance. This led to a new form of reproduction in which the daughter being was much smaller than the parent being. Moreover, from now on reproduction was bound to special reproductive organs. The [[soul forces]] that became free and could no longer seize the substance made the first inner sensations possible:

			{{GZ\|The outer substance, precisely because of its compression, is no longer such that the soul can give it life directly. Therefore, a special part is separated in the interior of the structure. This withdraws from the direct influence of the outer substance. Only the body, which is outside this separate part, remains exposed to these influences. It is still in the same condition as the whole body was before. In the separated part the soul continues to work. Here the soul becomes the carrier of the life principle (called [[prana]] in theosophical literature). Thus the bodily human ancestor now appears equipped with two members. One is the physical body (the physical shell). It is subject to the chemical and physical laws of the surrounding world. The second is the sum of organs which are subject to the particular principle of life. - Now, however, a part of the soul's activity has become free. It no longer has any power over the physical part of the body. This part of the soul's activity now turns inwards and forms a part of the body into special organs. And thus begins an inner life of the body. It no longer merely lives with the shocks of the outer world, but begins to feel them inwardly as special experiences. Here lies the starting point of sensation. At first this sensation appears as a kind of sense of touch. The being feels the movements of the outer world, the pressure exerted by the substances and so on. The beginnings of a sensation of warmth and cold also appear.\|11\|76ff}}

	== Literature ==		== Literature ==

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'''Reproduction''' or '''procreation''' is the seventh and last of the seven basic [[life process]]es that [[Rudolf Steiner]] distinguished. Reproduction is closely connected with the cosmic effects of the [[lunar sphere]] {{GZ||170|113ff}}.

The reproduction of [[man]] has changed significantly in the course of human evolution. As long as the [[Moon]] was still connected with the [[Earth]], the human being reproduced asexually. Only when the Moon left the Earth did the sexes separate and thus sexual reproduction take place, which was necessary for the human being to develop his [[individuality]]. Whereas in asexual reproduction the offspring is genetically largely identical and thus a kind of biological immortality is guaranteed, in sexual reproduction the interaction of two partners of the same species, but of different sex types, through the associated exchange of [[w:genome|genome]]s, leads to a rapidly progressing differentiation, through which the individual being with its unique genetic particularity is, however, also necessarily subject to biological [[death]]. The necessity of mate choice decisively promoted the development of the [[sense]]s, among other things, and a wealth of completely new behavioural patterns and stronger social bonds could emerge.

In the future, sexual reproduction will again give way to asexual reproduction. At that time, the Moon will reunite with the Earth.

== Literature ==
* [[Helena Petrovna Blavatsky]]: ''Die Geheimlehre'', Band II: Anthropogenesis, deutsche Gesamtausgabe Leipzig 1919, Nachdruck Hannover 1999
* Werner Christian Simonis: ''Die geistigen Hintergründe zum Entstehen und zum Wandel der Geschlechter'', J.Ch. Mellinger Vlg., Stuttgart 1977
* Gerhard Wehr: ''Der Urmensch und der Mensch der Zukunft. Das Mysterium männlich-weiblicher Ganzheit im Lichte der Anthroposophie'', Vlg. Die Kommenden, Freiburg i.Br. 1979
* Max Hoffmeister: ''Die übersinnliche Vorbereitung der Inkarnation. Erkenntnisgrundlagen zur Frage der Wesenheit des Ich und der Regelung der Empfängnis'', Vlg. Die Pforte, Basel 1991
* [[Rudolf Steiner]]: ''Aus der Akasha-Chronik'', [[GA 11]] (1986), im Kapitel ''Die hyperboräische und die polarische Epoche'' {{Lectures|11}}
* [[Rudolf Steiner]]: ''Natur- und Geistwesen – ihr Wirken in unserer sichtbaren Welt'', [[GA 98]] (1996) {{Lectures|98}}
* [[Rudolf Steiner]]: ''Mythen und Sagen. Okkulte Zeichen und Symbole'', [[GA 101]] (1992), ISBN 3-7274-1010-8 {{Lectures|101}}
* [[Rudolf Steiner]]: ''Welt, Erde und Mensch, deren Wesen und Entwickelung sowie ihre Spiegelung in dem Zusammenhang zwischen ägyptischem Mythos und gegenwärtiger Kultur'', [[GA 105]] (1991) {{Lectures|105}}
* [[Rudolf Steiner]]: ''Ägyptische Mythen und Mysterien'', [[GA 106]] (1992) {{Lectures|106}}
* [[Rudolf Steiner]]: ''Geisteswissenschaftliche Menschenkunde'', [[GA 107]] (1988) {{Lectures|107}}
* [[Rudolf Steiner]]: ''Das Prinzip der spirituellen Ökonomie im Zusammenhang mit Wiederverkörperungsfragen'', [[GA 109]] (2000) {{Lectures|109}}
* [[Rudolf Steiner]]: ''Geistige Hierarchien und ihre Widerspiegelung in der physischen Welt'', [[GA 110]] (1991) {{Lectures|110}}
* [[Rudolf Steiner]]: ''Das Rätsel des Menschen. Die geistigen Hintergründe der menschlichen Geschichte.'', [[GA 170]] (1978), Siebenter Vortrag, Dornach, 12. August 1916 {{Lectures|170}}
* [[Rudolf Steiner]]: ''Innere Entwicklungsimpulse der Menschheit. Goethe und die Krisis des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts'', [[GA 171]] (1984), ISBN 3-7274-1710-2 {{Lectures|171}}
* [[Rudolf Steiner]]: ''Bausteine zu einer Erkenntnis des Mysteriums von Golgatha'', [[GA 175]] (1982), Zehnter Vortrag, Berlin, 10. April 1917
* ebd. Elfter Vortrag, Berlin, 12. April 1917 {{Lectures|175}}
* [[Rudolf Steiner]]: ''Die spirituellen Hintergründe der äußeren Welt. Der Sturz der Geister der Finsternis'', [[GA 177]] (1966), Fünfter Vortrag, Dornach, 7. Oktober 1917 {{Lectures|177}}
* [[Rudolf Steiner]]: ''Menschliche und menschheitliche Entwicklungswahrheiten. Das Karma des Materialismus'', [[GA 176]] (1982), Erster Vortrag, Berlin, 29. Mai 1917 {{Lectures|176}}
* [[GA 177]] (1966), Vierzehnter Vortrag, Dornach, 28. Oktober 1917 {{Lectures|177}}
* [[Rudolf Steiner]]: ''Geistige und soziale Wandlungen in der Menschheitsentwickelung'', [[GA 196]] (1992), Sechster Vortrag, Dornach, 18. Januar 1920 {{Lectures|196}}
* [[Rudolf Steiner]]: ''Menschenwerden, Weltenseele und Weltengeist – Erster Teil'', [[GA 205]] (1987) {{Lectures|205}}
* [[Rudolf Steiner]]: ''Das Verhältnis der verschiedenen naturwissenschaftlichen Gebiete zur Astronomie'', [[GA 323]] (1997) {{Lectures|323}}

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