Main age
Before the actual Earth evolution could begin, the Old Saturn, Old Sun and Old Moon states (→ World evolution) were repeated in abbreviated form. Earth evolution in the narrower sense only began afterwards and is divided into 7 main ages or root races, whereby the term "race" may only be understood in a figurative sense here. For if "race" denotes a specific formation of the physical body, it is only since the later Lemuria that one can speak of the very first races, for it was only since this time that man was embodied on Earth at all. The concept of race only attained special significance on ancient Atlantis, which served primarily to regulate the formation of races. The division of humanity into individual races achieved there continues to have an effect up to the present day, but will become increasingly insignificant in the future. Instead of speaking of root races, it would therefore be better to speak of great human and earth-historical epochs of development. In fact, Rudolf Steiner hardly ever used this terminology, which originated in the Theosophical Society, later on.
Literature
- Adolf Baumann: ABC der Anthroposophie, ISBN 3-7214-0688-5;
- a:Dankmar Bosse: Die gemeinsame Evolution von Erde und Mensch. Entwurf einer Geologie und Paläontologie der lebendigen Erde, ISBN 3-7725-1593-2;
- Andreas Delor: Kampf um Atlantis. Ein Beitrag zur anthroposophischen Atlantis-Diskussion, ISBN 3-924391-30-0;
- Gisela Gorrissen: Astrosophie des Tierkreises und der Planeten. Der Mensch im Spannungsfeld zwischen Kosmos und Erde, ISBN 3-8251-7254-6
- Caroline von Heydebrand: Vom Lehrplan der Freien Waldorfschule,ISBN 3772502008
- Martin Freksa: Das verlorene Atlantis. Die Geschichte der Auflösung eines alten Rätsels, ISBN 3-86150-301-8
- Murry Hope: Atlantis. Legende, Mythos und Wirklichkeit des versunkenen Kontinents, ISBN 3-453-14783-9
- Hans-Jürgen Bader/Manfred Leist/Lorenzo Ravagli: Rassenideale sind der Niedergang der Menschheit. Anthroposophie und der Antisemitismusvorwurf, ISBN 3-7725-1916-4
- Hans-Jürgen Bader/Lorenzo Ravagli: Rassenideale sind der Niedergang der Menschheit. Anthroposophie und der Rassismusvorwurf, ISBN 3-7725-1917-2
- Rudolf Steiner: Aus der Akasha-Chronik, GA 11 (1986) Template:Schriften
- Rudolf Steiner: Die Geheimwissenschaft im Umriß, GA 13 (1989) Template:Schriften
- Rudolf Steiner: Grundelemente der Esoterik (GA 93a), insbesondere S. 229 Template:Vorträge
- Rudolf Steiner: Die tieferen Geheimnisse des Menschheitswerdens im Lichte der Evangelien, GA 117 (1986), ISBN 3-7274-1170-8 Template:Vorträge
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References to the work of Rudolf Steiner follow Rudolf Steiner's Collected Works (CW or GA), Rudolf Steiner Verlag, Dornach/Switzerland, unless otherwise stated.
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Criticism
- Peter Bierl: Wurzelrassen, Erzengel und Volksgeister. Die Anthroposophie Rudolf Steiners und die Waldorfpädagogik, ISBN 3894581719;
- Jutta Ditfurth: Feuer in die Herzen, Konkret-Literatur-Verlag 1997,ISBN 389458159X
- Die Wurzelrassen-Lehre als ein zentrales Element anthroposophischer Weltanschauung (Peter Bierl)
