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	The '''Secret of the Abyss''' is the first of the [[Seven Secrets of Life]] [[Rudolf Steiner]] spoke of. Of the seven great cosmic stages of [[world evolution]], [[Old Saturn]] corresponds to it.		The '''Secret of the Abyss''' is the first of the [[Seven Secrets of Life]] [[Rudolf Steiner]] spoke of. Since this secret is connected with the first stage of each seven-stage path of evolution, the first of the seven great cosmic stages of world evolution, [[Old Saturn]], corresponds to it. During Earth evolution, which is itself the fourth great cosmic stage of evolution, again all periods are particularly affected which are on the first stage. This concerns in particular the [[polar time]] and, on a smaller scale of [[cultural epochs]], the [[ancient Indian times]].

	{{GZ\|Man has entered into development as a universal being. He then becomes a special being. At first he separated himself as a single sphere from a general sphere. These individual human spheres went through the various transformations. From one of the later transformations arose the so-called etheric double body. This stage of the first separation from the All-being is called the "sinking of consciousness into the abyss". This is reached in the physical stage of the first planet. It is preceded and followed by 24 stages. The middle stage, the 25th, is the densest. The physical disposition came into being as a rough physical sphere. The earth then resembled our ether or the light matter of our present earth, and after the fall of consciousness into the abyss had the form of a kind of mulberry.\|89\|144ff}}		{{GZ\|Man has entered into development as a universal being. He then becomes a special being. At first he separated himself as a single sphere from a general sphere. These individual human spheres went through the various transformations. From one of the later transformations arose the so-called etheric double body. This stage of the first separation from the All-being is called the "sinking of consciousness into the abyss". This is reached in the physical stage of the first planet. It is preceded and followed by 24 stages. The middle stage, the 25th, is the densest. The physical disposition came into being as a rough physical sphere. The earth then resembled our ether or the light matter of our present earth, and after the fall of consciousness into the abyss had the form of a kind of mulberry.\|89\|144ff}}

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	The '''Secret of the Abyss''' is the first of the [[Seven Secrets of Life]] [[Rudolf Steiner]] spoke of.		The '''Secret of the Abyss''' is the first of the [[Seven Secrets of Life]] [[Rudolf Steiner]] spoke of. Of the seven great cosmic stages of [[world evolution]], [[Old Saturn]] corresponds to it.

	{{GZ\|Man has entered into development as a universal being. He then becomes a special being. At first he separated himself as a single sphere from a general sphere. These individual human spheres went through the various transformations. From one of the later transformations arose the so-called etheric double body. This stage of the first separation from the All-being is called the "sinking of consciousness into the abyss". This is reached in the physical stage of the first planet. It is preceded and followed by 24 stages. The middle stage, the 25th, is the densest. The physical disposition came into being as a rough physical sphere. The earth then resembled our ether or the light matter of our present earth, and after the fall of consciousness into the abyss had the form of a kind of mulberry.\|89\|144ff}}		{{GZ\|Man has entered into development as a universal being. He then becomes a special being. At first he separated himself as a single sphere from a general sphere. These individual human spheres went through the various transformations. From one of the later transformations arose the so-called etheric double body. This stage of the first separation from the All-being is called the "sinking of consciousness into the abyss". This is reached in the physical stage of the first planet. It is preceded and followed by 24 stages. The middle stage, the 25th, is the densest. The physical disposition came into being as a rough physical sphere. The earth then resembled our ether or the light matter of our present earth, and after the fall of consciousness into the abyss had the form of a kind of mulberry.\|89\|144ff}}

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	He who approaches this knowledge too early, unprepared, that is, not with the right attitude, will not attain this knowledge in the right way. He will produce harmful effects for himself and for the world.\|270c\|163f}}		He who approaches this knowledge too early, unprepared, that is, not with the right attitude, will not attain this knowledge in the right way. He will produce harmful effects for himself and for the world.\|270c\|163f}}

			== The Abyss between the Etheric Body and the Physical Body ==

			At the moment of waking up, when I and astral body dive back into the abiding body, we cross the abyss between the etheric body and the physical body. This experience is clearly different from the dream consciousness filled with life reminiscences.

			{{GZ\|Mere dreaming takes place in such a way that it is filled with life reminiscences. What happens at the moment of waking up are not life reminiscences. They can be very well distinguished from life reminiscences, these flooding thoughts. They can be translated into the language of ordinary consciousness, but they are essentially strange thoughts, thoughts which we cannot otherwise experience unless we grasp them in the moment which is made possible either by spiritual-scientific training in us, or precisely in this moment of waking.

			What do we actually grasp there? Well, we have penetrated with our I and our astral body into the etheric body and into the physical body. What is experienced in the etheric body, however, is experienced in such a way that it is dreamlike. And by learning to observe this subtly in the presence of the spirit, as I have indicated, one learns to distinguish between this passing through the etheric body, in which the reminiscences of life occur in a dream-like manner, and then, before full awakening, before the impressions which the senses now have after awakening, being placed in a world which is certainly a world of weaving thoughts, but which is not experienced in the same way as the dream thoughts, where one knows exactly that one has them subjectively within oneself. The thoughts I am referring to now present themselves quite objectively to the intruding I and astral man, and one notices quite clearly: one must pass through the etheric body; for as long as one passes through the etheric body, everything remains dreamlike. But one must also pass through the abyss, the intermediate space - I should like to say, if I express myself rather inaccurately, but perhaps thereby more clearly - the intermediate space between the etheric body and the physical body, and then slips into the full etheric-physical by waking up and the outer physical impressions of the senses are there. As soon as one has slipped into the physical body, the outer physical sense impressions are there. What we experience there in the way of objective thought weaves, takes place between the etheric body and the physical body. We must therefore see in it an interaction of the etheric body and the physical body. So that we can say, if we draw schematically: If, for instance, this represents the physical body (orange), that the etheric body (green), then we have the living weaving of physical body and etheric body in the thoughts which we grasp there, and by way of such an observation one then comes to the realisation that between our physical and our etheric body, regardless of whether we are awake or asleep, processes are always taking place which actually consist in weaving thought-being, which are weaving thought-being between our physical body and our etheric body (yellow). So that we have now grasped the first element of soul life objectified. We see in it a weaving between the etheric body and the physical body.

			[[File:GA207 051.gif\|center\|300px\|Drawing from GA 207, p. 51]]

			This weaving thought-life does not actually come to our consciousness in the waking state as it is. It must be grasped in the way I have described.\|207\|50f}}

	== Literature ==		== Literature ==

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	The '''~~secret~~ of the ~~abyss~~''' is the first of the [[~~seven secrets~~ of ~~life~~]] [[Rudolf Steiner]] spoke of.		The '''Secret of the Abyss''' is the first of the [[Seven Secrets of Life]] [[Rudolf Steiner]] spoke of.

	{{GZ\|Man has entered into development as a universal being. He then becomes a special being. At first he separated himself as a single sphere from a general sphere. These individual human spheres went through the various transformations. From one of the later transformations arose the so-called etheric double body. This stage of the first separation from the All-being is called the "sinking of consciousness into the abyss". This is reached in the physical stage of the first planet. It is preceded and followed by 24 stages. The middle stage, the 25th, is the densest. The physical disposition came into being as a rough physical sphere. The earth then resembled our ether or the light matter of our present earth, and after the fall of consciousness into the abyss had the form of a kind of mulberry.\|89\|144ff}}		{{GZ\|Man has entered into development as a universal being. He then becomes a special being. At first he separated himself as a single sphere from a general sphere. These individual human spheres went through the various transformations. From one of the later transformations arose the so-called etheric double body. This stage of the first separation from the All-being is called the "sinking of consciousness into the abyss". This is reached in the physical stage of the first planet. It is preceded and followed by 24 stages. The middle stage, the 25th, is the densest. The physical disposition came into being as a rough physical sphere. The earth then resembled our ether or the light matter of our present earth, and after the fall of consciousness into the abyss had the form of a kind of mulberry.\|89\|144ff}}

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The '''secret of the abyss''' is the first of the [[seven secrets of life]] [[Rudolf Steiner]] spoke of.

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== Literature ==
* [[Wikipedia:Kurt Rudolph|Kurt Rudolph]]: ''Die Gnosis. Wesen und Geschichte einer spätantiken Religion'', Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2005 ISBN 3-525-52110-3
* [[Rudolf Steiner]]: ''Bewußtsein Leben Form'', [[GA 89]] (2001), Berlin, 29. Oktober 1904 {{Lectures|089}}
* [[Rudolf Steiner]]: ''Anthroposophie als Kosmosophie – Erster Teil'', [[GA 207]] (1990), ISBN 3-7274-2070-7 {{Lectures|207}}
* [[Rudolf Steiner]]: ''Esoterische Unterweisungen für die erste Klasse der Freien Hochschule für Geisteswissenschaft am Goetheanum. Band I'', [[GA 270a]] (1999) {{Lectures|270a}}
* [[Rudolf Steiner]]: ''Esoterische Unterweisungen für die erste Klasse der Freien Hochschule für Geisteswissenschaft am Goetheanum. Band III'', [[GA 270c]] (1999) {{Lectures|270c}}

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