Mars

Mars in natural colours. The data for the computer-generated image were taken with the Mars Global Surveyor in 1999

Mars (Middle Egyptian: Hor-dscheru or Hor-descheru "Red Horus"; Hebrew מַאְדִּים, Meadim; astronomical sign: ♂) came into being when, during our earth evolution, when the previous world evolutionary stage, the so-called Old Moon, was repeated in an abbreviated form. The Old Moon extended to where Mars now traces its orbits, and in a certain sense Mars can be regarded as a re-embodiment of the Old Moon, on which man already had an astral body but not yet an independent I. Likewise, on Mars today, the astral sphere is not guided and soothed by an I. Hence there is much strife on Mars.

„The nature of Mars is chiefly to dry and burn, in accordance with its fiery colour, and because of its proximity to the sun, for the solar sphere lies just below it.“

– Claudius Ptolemy: Tetrabiblos, Book I, The Power of the Planets

The sidereal orbital period of Mars is 686.980 days. The Mars sphere, on the outer boundary of which the physical planet Mars makes its orbits, is the dominion of the Spirits of Motion.

See also

• Mars - Article in the English Wikipedia

Literature

• Rudolf Steiner: Natur- und Geistwesen – ihr Wirken in unserer sichtbaren Welt, GA 98 (1996), ISBN 3-7274-0980-0 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
• Rudolf Steiner: Das Hereinwirken geistiger Wesenheiten in den Menschen, GA 102 (2001), ISBN 3-7274-1020-5 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
• Rudolf Steiner: Das esoterische Christentum und die geistige Führung des Menschen, GA 130 (1987), Neuchâtel, 18. Dezember 1912 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
• Rudolf Steiner: Die Schöpfung der Welt und des Menschen. Erdenleben und Sternenwirken, GA 354 (2000), ISBN 3-7274-3540-2 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org

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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