Mercury

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Mercury in natural colours, at the approach of the Messenger space probe.

Mercury (Hebrewכוכב Kawkab; ancient Egyptian Sebeg; astronomical sign: ) - similar to Venus - only detached itself from the Earth and Sun after the separation of the latter. Similar to Venus, certain retarded Luciferic Spirits of Form created a dwelling place for themselves here that was appropriate to their level of development, which contained finer substances than the Earth, but less fine ones than the Sun. It should be noted that with the transition to the Copernican system, Venus and Mercury were interchanged in the order of the planets (see → Occult order of planets).

„Mercury is at certain times equally drying and receptive of moisture, because it is never far from the heat of the Sun, and at other times moistening again, because it is nearest above the sphere of the Moon, which is nearest to the Earth. It changes rapidly from one to the other, inspired, as it were, by the rapidity of its motion in the neighbourhood of the sun itself.“

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

The second half of the Earth's evolution, in which we have stood since the middle of the Atlantean period, is closely connected with Mercury's forces. Many initiates are therefore Mercury initiates in order to promote this development.

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Literature

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Index to the Complete Works of Rudolf Steiner - Aelzina Books
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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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