Primeval Teachers of Humanity

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The primeval teachers of humanity, the lunar primeval teachers, were angelic beings who lived on earth in ancient times as teachers of humanity. However, they did not work in physical bodies, but only descended to the etheric body. Later they withdrew, strictly closed off from the rest of the universe, into the interior of the moon as into a fortress (Lit.:GA 228, p. 15) and now work as lunar beings in this lunar fortress.

The Lunar Teachers as Educators of Humanity

The primordial teachers of humanity "have given to humanity the original great wisdoms which are preserved only in echo even in such creations as the Vedas and the Vedanta philosophy." (Lit.:GA 239, p. 130)

These are beings who had already completed part of their human development on the Old Moon, but - unlike the regularly advanced Angels - still had to complete some things during the Earth's development.

„And those beings who at that time [note: on the Old Moon] had already gone through their humanity in part, who had only some of this humanity still to complete during their existence on Earth, these are precisely those individualities of whom I have spoken as the great wise primordial teachers of humanity on Earth, who are today on the lunar colony.“ (Lit.:GA 232, p. 131)

Their remaining behind is to be understood as an act of sacrifice in the service of the development of humanity (Lit.:GA 121, p. 43). In the past they populated the earth as a kind of second, ethereally existing human race.

„These primeval teachers of humanity were not dwelling in a physical human body, they only embodied themselves in an etheric body, and the intercourse with them was somewhat different than it is between physical human beings. These teachers wandered about the earth in an etheric body. The man to whom they became guides felt their nearness in his soul. He felt something enter his soul that was like an inspiration, like an inner illumination of truths, also of views. They taught in a spiritual way. But at that time of the development of the earth, a distinction was made between people who could be seen and people who could not be seen. One did not claim to want to see people whom one could not see, for one had the gift of receiving the teachings from them, even if one did not see them. One heard these teachings coming from within the soul and one said to oneself: If these teachings come, then a great original teacher of humanity has approached me. - And one did not have external views of these original teachers; one met them in spiritual vision. We did not shake hands with them physically, but we met them and felt something like a spiritual handshake.“ (Lit.:GA 239, p. 139)

„When man went through a far distant epoch in his development on earth - I will describe it more precisely later - a very old epoch, which naturally lies before the historical epoch, man was also on earth in the company of spiritual beings who were not directly connected with the earth itself, but were also connected with the cosmos in their earthly life. One can say that divine teachers, not earthly teachers, were the heads of the mysteries and taught earthly people.

These teachers for the most ancient times did not assume a solid, dense, fleshy physical body, but worked on men in their etheric bodies. So that the most ancient teachers of men in the mysteries, the supreme teachers, those whose servants were only the physically embodied men, were etherically divine teachers. These Beings were co-inhabitants of the earth among men in an older epoch of human evolution. So that we can really say in all real sense: There was an ancient epoch in the development of the earthly world in which divine-spiritual beings dwelt on earth with men, who did not show themselves when one, well, I will say, went for a walk, but who showed themselves when one was introduced in the right way to these divine-spiritual beings by the temple servants in the mysteries. They only showed themselves in the mysteries, but there they showed themselves. And through these mysteries they became co-inhabitants of men on earth.“ (Lit.:GA 227, p. 233ff)

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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