Moon
The Moon (Old English: mōna, from Proto-Germanic: *mēnōn, derived from the Indo-European: *mē- "to measure"; Latin: Luna; Hebrew: לבֿנה Lavanah; astronomical sign: waxing and at the same time the sign for silver ☽, waning ☾) is from the spiritual-scientific point of view the residual slag of the so-called Old Moon, the third re-embodiment of our planetary system (see → world evolution). The sidereal period of the Moon is 27.3217 days, the synodic period of the lunar phases averages about 29.53 days. The surface of the Moon is littered with lunar craters, most of which were formed by the impact of meteorites; volcanic craters are relatively rare and small.
„The Moon's greatest power is moistening, clearly because it is close to the Earth and its moist exhalations. It therefore has a softening effect and produces mainly putrefaction in bodies, but also has a moderate heating power because of the light it receives from the Sun.“
Moon beings
The Moon is the seat of a number of spiritual lunar beings (or moon beings), including the original teachers of man. The lunar sphere is the dominion of the Angeloi. The leading Archangel of the moon sphere is Gabriel.
Literature
- Rudolf Steiner: Die Geheimwissenschaft im Umriß, GA 13 (1989), ISBN 3-7274-0130-3 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
- Rudolf Steiner: Die geistigen Wesenheiten in den Himmelskörpern und Naturreichen, GA 136 (1996), ISBN 3-7274-1361-1 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
- Rudolf Steiner: Die Welt des Geistes und ihr Hereinragen in das physische Dasein, GA 150 (1980), ISBN 3-7274-1500-2 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
- Rudolf Steiner: Perspektiven der Menschheitsentwickelung, GA 204 (1979), ISBN 3-7274-2040-5 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
- Rudolf Steiner: Mysteriengestaltungen, GA 232 (1998), ISBN 3-7274-2321-8 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
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