Appendix to “Three Bodies”, Page 3

We saw in “I AM” the immense theological confusion between Gen 4,26 and Ex 6,3, as to when the Eloha Yahweh was first recognized by humanity. It will be helpful to recognize that the plural Elohim did not become the primary agency of creation until after the prior three Conditions of Consciousness, Old Saturn, Sun and Moon, had passed and Earth evolution had begun (see I-16), and that the Eloha Yahweh was not separated out for recognition until the Evolutionary Epoch of Lemuria when the Moon separated from the Earth (see I-27 and OS). The Cain element down through Lamech’s “three sons” appears to have been implanted (Gen 4,1-25) on the very threshold of the time when Yahweh took over from the Moon (Gen 4,26). In other words, it was a part of the sixth day of creation when the human being was first created in the etheric state and given the Cain-like “dominion” of all earthly creatures (Gen 1,26-30). That element, the Cain element, the male element was thus created by the gods and the maternal Eve before the hard “Adam” state of humanity came into being in Gen 3,17. But it was an element that would be reborn in all of humanity that came later. After the division into sexes occurred (Gen 2,18-25) and the astral body of all humanity was infected (Gen 3), Adam and Eve then had a son, Cain, who was dominated by the male influence originally born on the sixth day to Eve by the gods. Then a son, Abel was born to them embodying primarily the female principle, and in order to dominate the Earth and its creatures the male element had to subdue the female. The Individualities identified in the Cain line in Gen 4,17-24 were then born into earthly materiality as the Individualities in the Seth line in Gen 4,25-5,32.

Here we have an anthroposophical postulate that corresponds with anthroposophy’s showing that there is only one creation story (Gen 1-3), only one story of Noah taking the “Wild Animals” into the “Ark” (Gen 6,19-7,3) and only one series of “sister” ruses (see item #7), each telling of the evolutionary development of the human being, a progression and not a duplication of accounts.

But let us go back and try to reconstruct what these myths (TL and Gen 4-5) are telling us.

A principle that should come easily for the Christian is that there is no spiritual growth without true sacrifice (cf. Rom 12,1; Heb, esp. 9,26). In OS, Steiner has shown us how in each stage of the development of the human being, progress could be made only by the sacrifice of the Hierarchies (I-6), starting with that of the Thrones on Ancient Saturn. We must start out with the assumption that all spiritual beings, in their normal state, are neither male nor female (Lk 20,34-36; Gen 1,27; 5,1-2; Mt 19,4; Mk 10,6), but androgynous, whole beings, embodying the perfect unity of both the male and female principles. What then happened to bring about a sexual human being?