Sun

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The Sun with some sunspots visible. The two small spots in the middle have about the same diameter as our planet Earth.

The Sun (Hebrew: חמה chamah, also wrath, derived from: חַם "hot"; Sanskrit: सूर्य sūrya; astronomical sign: ☉) is today a fixed star. Rudolf Steiner's occult research shows that it was not always so and that in the future it will evolve to an even higher existence. Only after a series of embodiments or stages of world evolution, which at the same time represent different conditions of consciousness, has the Sun ascended from a planet, the so-called Old Sun, to a fixed-star existence, and it will later be developed to such an extent that a new zodiac system will emerge from it. The Old Sun differed from the present Sun mainly in that the former lit up and darkened again in rhythmic alternation and thus had a kind of light-breathing, whereas the present Sun is always luminous.

„It is in the nature of the Sun that it heats up and dries up to a certain degree. This is more easily perceptible in the Sun than in any other celestial body, by its size and obvious seasonal changes: the more it approaches the zenith, the more it acts in this way.“

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

In the daytime sky, the Sun appears to the human eye as a solar disk and, unlike the Moon which appears to be approximately the same size, does not leave a plastic-spatial impression.

The Sun sphere or solar sphere, that is, the space that extends from the Earth to the Sun's orbit from a geocentric point of view, is the dominion of the Spirits of Form.

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.
Solar system
SunMercuryVenusEarthMarsAsteroid beltJupiterSaturnUranusNeptunCeresPlutoMakemakeEris
Central star: Sun
Planets: Mercury | Venus | Earth | Mars | Jupiter | Saturn | Uranus | Neptune
Dwarf planets: Ceres | Pluto | Haumea | Makemake | Eris
Astronomical objects: Planets | Dwarf planets | Moons | Asteroids | Comets | Meteoroids
 
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