Text: "Just as a human being has a physical body, etheric body and astral body, so also the Earth has its physical body, etheric body, and astral body. With our physical bodies we are all enveloped not only by the air but also by the etheric and astral bodies of the Earth. An observer from a distant planet with clairvoyant vision would be able to see these etheric and astral bodies. These etheric and astral bodies of the Earth had a certain color and a certain movement until the appearance of Jesus Christ. Then the Earth changed and took on new colors and new movement. This event is so profound and far- reaching for our Earth and humanity's evolution that the entire spiritual content of our Earth was changed. We must not think that this took place all at once with the birth, suffering and death of Christ. It has been prepared through centuries in the spiritual substance of our planet and is not even today completed. With such an eye we could see how the Earth at that time received a new spiritual impulse, how this impulse is still "condensing" and being consolidated. It will be a long time before the Earth has gathered in all the fruits that were called forth back then by the appearance of Jesus Christ". Rudolph Steiner (The Christian Mysteries)

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