Reproduction

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Human Embryo after a nine-week pregnancy (or seven weeks post ovulation).

Reproduction or procreation is the seventh and last of the seven basic life processes that Rudolf Steiner distinguished. Reproduction is closely connected with the cosmic effects of the lunar sphere (Lit.:GA 170, p. 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 genomes, 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 senses, 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

References to the work of Rudolf Steiner follow Rudolf Steiner's Collected Works (CW or GA), Rudolf Steiner Verlag, Dornach/Switzerland, unless otherwise stated.
Email: verlag@steinerverlag.com URL: www.steinerverlag.com.
Index to the Complete Works of Rudolf Steiner - Aelzina Books
A complete list by Volume Number and a full list of known English translations you may also find at Rudolf Steiner's Collected Works
Rudolf Steiner Archive - The largest online collection of Rudolf Steiner's books, lectures and articles in English.
Rudolf Steiner Audio - Recorded and Read by Dale Brunsvold
steinerbooks.org - Anthroposophic Press Inc. (USA)
Rudolf Steiner Handbook - Christian Karl's proven standard work for orientation in Rudolf Steiner's Collected Works for free download as PDF.