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{{GZ|Now the time came when the sun peeled out of the earth again. The finest matter and entities formed an independent world body so that our earth orbited the sun. The emergence of the finest matter was connected with a condensation of the remaining matter. On the one hand the finely luminous body of the sun emerges, on the other hand the matter of the earth becomes much denser. It comes into a watery state, denser than our sea water, for it also contained everything that is solid today. With the becoming liquid a new element appears. To the extent that the water appears, the music of the spheres, the sounds of the world, works out of the cosmos and out of the earth. It is not such music as today, which is propagated through the air. The development of the earth is now under the influence of the world music. Matter emerges as individual substances from the undifferentiated, great matter. The earthly substances begin to dance under the influence of the world music. This is the differentiation of matter into organic matter, for example into protein. Thus organic matter, the protoplasm, came into being under the influence of the world music, similar to the Chladnian sound figures today. These substances, protein-like, glutinous matter, are pushed into the earlier lines of force of the human germ. The cells, which today are regarded as the first in the history of the development of organisms, came into being much later. They were only born from certain beings. The atom, too, is never the original, is always that which falls out of the whole. The whole is never composed of the cells. The whole process was promoted by the fact that the moon was still in the earthly body. The three human races that went through these times are the Polar, the Hyperborean and the Lemurian. Then the moon separated from the earth.|98|215}}
{{GZ|Now the time came when the sun peeled out of the earth again. The finest matter and entities formed an independent world body so that our earth orbited the sun. The emergence of the finest matter was connected with a condensation of the remaining matter. On the one hand the finely luminous body of the sun emerges, on the other hand the matter of the earth becomes much denser. It comes into a watery state, denser than our sea water, for it also contained everything that is solid today. With the becoming liquid a new element appears. To the extent that the water appears, the music of the spheres, the sounds of the world, works out of the cosmos and out of the earth. It is not such music as today, which is propagated through the air. The development of the earth is now under the influence of the world music. Matter emerges as individual substances from the undifferentiated, great matter. The earthly substances begin to dance under the influence of the world music. This is the differentiation of matter into organic matter, for example into protein. Thus organic matter, the protoplasm, came into being under the influence of the world music, similar to the Chladnian sound figures today. These substances, protein-like, glutinous matter, are pushed into the earlier lines of force of the human germ. The cells, which today are regarded as the first in the history of the development of organisms, came into being much later. They were only born from certain beings. The atom, too, is never the original, is always that which falls out of the whole. The whole is never composed of the cells. The whole process was promoted by the fact that the moon was still in the earthly body. The three human races that went through these times are the Polar, the Hyperborean and the Lemurian. Then the moon separated from the earth.|98|215}}
{{GZ|Just as light came into being with the creation of air, a counter-image came into being with the compression of air into water. Just as air relates to light, so water relates to sound, to tone. Of course, sound can pass through the air and causes the air to vibrate; this makes it audible. But originated, occurred on the earth is the sound - as a sound for itself - next to the formation of water. And just as the air has been flowed through by the effect of light, so now all the water into which the air has condensed - we now have the earth consisting of heat, air and water - is completely vibrated through by rays of sound. Our earth is now most permeated in those parts where it has become watery by spherical harmonies, by tones which thus flow into our earth from the space of the world in all possible tonal harmonies; and the result of these tonal effects in the water is a very, very important one. You must of course imagine that in this original water, in this liquid earth water, all the substances were contained which are now separated out as metals, minerals and so on. It is particularly interesting to direct the spiritual gaze to this ancient time, to see how the most diverse forms emerge from the water, in that the sound creates forms in the water. The sound creates shapes in the water. It is a quite wonderful time in the development of our earth. At that time, something happened to the greatest extent in the development of the earth, like when you sprinkle fine dust on a metal plate and stroke the plate with a violin bow. You know what regular figures are created there. Thus, through the music flowing in from the space of the world, the most diverse shapes and figures were formed, and the substances which were dissolved in the water, which were themselves watery, they obeyed the music of the world and arranged themselves according to the music of the world. And the most important formation of the dance of substances according to the world music is the protein, the protoplasm, as it is the basis of all living formation. Let the materialists think all they like about the mechanical assemblage of albumen from oxygen, nitrogen, carbon and so on. The original protoplasm, albumen, has formed from the world-matter, which has formed from the harmonies of the world-music. And so the substances in the living are arranged in the sense of the world music. So now, around the fine formations and especially in them, there is arranged that albuminous substance, that protoplasm, which permeates everything. Along those lines which I have described to you as heat lines, the water, coagulated into protein according to the tone of the world, runs and gradually passes into blood formation. In the nerve lines the coagulated water sets in as the protein formation. And at first the protein formed like a kind of shell, like a cartilaginous glue substance, one might say, so that there is protection against the outside. All this really formed after the dance of the substances in accordance with the music of the spheres.
All this was there before there was a single cell. The cell is not the original organism, but that which I have now described to you, the spiritual, is the original organism, first present as a heat being, then indicated more in lines of force, then intercalating into these lines of force that which arose from the harmony of the spheres through the arrangement of substances; and relatively late, as the last of the formations, only the cell arose.
The cell, as the last separation, had already to be born of a living being. It has never been the case that organisms have developed from cells, but the cell has first formed from living matter. The anatomical is always a consequence of the composite. We have all this in the beginning of that state where the moon was still in the earth and the sun was already outside. But as long as the moon remained in the earth, this protein formation hardened more and more, and it would finally have come to the point I have described to you as mummification, if the coarsest substances and the coarsest beings had not gone out of the earth. The last thing to develop out of the human being at that time were the nerves that go to the sense organs. But the sense organs were not yet open. They had been formed from within, but they were not yet open. And so now the moon goes out with the coarsest substances. The consequence of this stage of development is that man can gradually pass over to a higher state by opening his senses, so that, as it were, the two bodies which are now outside balance each other from without. While they built up the human being as long as they were connected with the earth, they now act from outside, they now open his senses and make him into the seeing and hearing being as he appears to us today.|102|89ff}}


== Literature ==
== Literature ==

Revision as of 06:41, 10 May 2022

The protein atmosphere, also called the primordial protein atmosphere or albumen atmosphere, formed according to Rudolf Steiner during the earth's evolution through the formative influence of the music of the spheres, after the earth condensed to a liquid state after the sun's exit during the Lemurian period. This process was promoted by the compressing forces of the moon, which had not yet separated from the earth at that time.

„Now the time came when the sun peeled out of the earth again. The finest matter and entities formed an independent world body so that our earth orbited the sun. The emergence of the finest matter was connected with a condensation of the remaining matter. On the one hand the finely luminous body of the sun emerges, on the other hand the matter of the earth becomes much denser. It comes into a watery state, denser than our sea water, for it also contained everything that is solid today. With the becoming liquid a new element appears. To the extent that the water appears, the music of the spheres, the sounds of the world, works out of the cosmos and out of the earth. It is not such music as today, which is propagated through the air. The development of the earth is now under the influence of the world music. Matter emerges as individual substances from the undifferentiated, great matter. The earthly substances begin to dance under the influence of the world music. This is the differentiation of matter into organic matter, for example into protein. Thus organic matter, the protoplasm, came into being under the influence of the world music, similar to the Chladnian sound figures today. These substances, protein-like, glutinous matter, are pushed into the earlier lines of force of the human germ. The cells, which today are regarded as the first in the history of the development of organisms, came into being much later. They were only born from certain beings. The atom, too, is never the original, is always that which falls out of the whole. The whole is never composed of the cells. The whole process was promoted by the fact that the moon was still in the earthly body. The three human races that went through these times are the Polar, the Hyperborean and the Lemurian. Then the moon separated from the earth.“ (Lit.:GA 98, p. 215)

„Just as light came into being with the creation of air, a counter-image came into being with the compression of air into water. Just as air relates to light, so water relates to sound, to tone. Of course, sound can pass through the air and causes the air to vibrate; this makes it audible. But originated, occurred on the earth is the sound - as a sound for itself - next to the formation of water. And just as the air has been flowed through by the effect of light, so now all the water into which the air has condensed - we now have the earth consisting of heat, air and water - is completely vibrated through by rays of sound. Our earth is now most permeated in those parts where it has become watery by spherical harmonies, by tones which thus flow into our earth from the space of the world in all possible tonal harmonies; and the result of these tonal effects in the water is a very, very important one. You must of course imagine that in this original water, in this liquid earth water, all the substances were contained which are now separated out as metals, minerals and so on. It is particularly interesting to direct the spiritual gaze to this ancient time, to see how the most diverse forms emerge from the water, in that the sound creates forms in the water. The sound creates shapes in the water. It is a quite wonderful time in the development of our earth. At that time, something happened to the greatest extent in the development of the earth, like when you sprinkle fine dust on a metal plate and stroke the plate with a violin bow. You know what regular figures are created there. Thus, through the music flowing in from the space of the world, the most diverse shapes and figures were formed, and the substances which were dissolved in the water, which were themselves watery, they obeyed the music of the world and arranged themselves according to the music of the world. And the most important formation of the dance of substances according to the world music is the protein, the protoplasm, as it is the basis of all living formation. Let the materialists think all they like about the mechanical assemblage of albumen from oxygen, nitrogen, carbon and so on. The original protoplasm, albumen, has formed from the world-matter, which has formed from the harmonies of the world-music. And so the substances in the living are arranged in the sense of the world music. So now, around the fine formations and especially in them, there is arranged that albuminous substance, that protoplasm, which permeates everything. Along those lines which I have described to you as heat lines, the water, coagulated into protein according to the tone of the world, runs and gradually passes into blood formation. In the nerve lines the coagulated water sets in as the protein formation. And at first the protein formed like a kind of shell, like a cartilaginous glue substance, one might say, so that there is protection against the outside. All this really formed after the dance of the substances in accordance with the music of the spheres.

All this was there before there was a single cell. The cell is not the original organism, but that which I have now described to you, the spiritual, is the original organism, first present as a heat being, then indicated more in lines of force, then intercalating into these lines of force that which arose from the harmony of the spheres through the arrangement of substances; and relatively late, as the last of the formations, only the cell arose.

The cell, as the last separation, had already to be born of a living being. It has never been the case that organisms have developed from cells, but the cell has first formed from living matter. The anatomical is always a consequence of the composite. We have all this in the beginning of that state where the moon was still in the earth and the sun was already outside. But as long as the moon remained in the earth, this protein formation hardened more and more, and it would finally have come to the point I have described to you as mummification, if the coarsest substances and the coarsest beings had not gone out of the earth. The last thing to develop out of the human being at that time were the nerves that go to the sense organs. But the sense organs were not yet open. They had been formed from within, but they were not yet open. And so now the moon goes out with the coarsest substances. The consequence of this stage of development is that man can gradually pass over to a higher state by opening his senses, so that, as it were, the two bodies which are now outside balance each other from without. While they built up the human being as long as they were connected with the earth, they now act from outside, they now open his senses and make him into the seeing and hearing being as he appears to us today.“ (Lit.:GA 102, p. 89ff)

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.
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