Lunesoleil
8th December 2025, 17:14
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In a previous article, I questioned what "ancient Saturn," as well as "ancient Sun" and "ancient Moon," represented!
Saturn was not the representation of Chronos, time, but of heat and the element of fire.
I will share with you some excerpts from Rudolf Steiner's book "Science of the Occult," in the chapter "Cosmic Evolution and the Human Being."
[...] Spiritual science can give this first planetary incarnation the name Saturn; it calls the second the Sun, the third the Moon, and the fourth Earth. It must be strongly emphasized that these names have no relation whatsoever to those that designate the planets of our current solar system, which bear the same names. Here, Saturn, Sun, and Moon are names that designate the ancient forms of evolution through which our Earth passed. [...]
To get a rough idea of the conditions prevailing during Saturnian evolution, one must understand that, essentially, nothing yet existed of the creatures and things that are currently part of Earth and that we attribute to the mineral, vegetable, and animal kingdoms […] Entities of this kind were also present during Saturnian evolution, and it is their activity on Saturn that gave rise to the subsequent evolution of humankind. […]
Let us try to completely disregard the heat emanating from external material bodies, and consider only the internal sensation one experiences when saying, "I feel hot" or "I feel cold." This internal experience alone can give us an idea of what Saturn was like at the stage of its evolution we have just described. One could have traversed the entire space it occupied without encountering a gas capable of exerting pressure, or a liquid or solid body capable of producing a luminous impression. But at every point in this space, without the slightest external influence, one would have had the feeling that a certain degree of heat prevailed there. A person today could not observe ancient Saturn.
The beings of which supersensible knowledge becomes aware when it observes Saturn were at a completely different stage of evolution than the terrestrial beings currently perceptible to the senses. Consciousness is confronted with beings that do not possess a physical body like ours […] The human physical body is not only subject to these laws, it is also imbued with mineral substance. However, on Saturn, there could not yet be any question of a mineral physical body of this kind […]
The physical body was therefore a body of heat, thin, subtle, of an etheric nature. And all of Saturn was constituted by such bodies of heat. These bodies of heat constituted the first outline of the current human body, both physical and mineral. This latter body formed much later from the first, into which gaseous, liquid, and solid substances were incorporated. Among the non-human beings that appear before supersensible consciousness at the moment Saturn appears to it, and which can be considered inhabitants of Saturn […]
Man possesses, as his highest element, the Spirit-Man. The Saturnian beings possessed an even higher element […] Like our Earth, Saturn was surrounded by an atmosphere, but this one was of a spiritual nature […] There were continuous exchanges between the calorific bodies of Saturn and the beings we have described. These beings immersed the components of their being in the physical heat bodies of Saturn […]
[…] If we seek to understand the origin of this “will,” we see it formed through the emanation of sublime beings who, by barely conceivable degrees, rose so high that, at the dawn of Saturnian evolution, they were capable of emanating this “will” from their own nature […]
These beings, whose bliss lies in emanating from the will in the nascent universe of Saturn, can be called "Spirits of the Will" (Christian esoteric science calls them "Thrones"). Once a certain stage of Saturnian evolution was reached under the combined action of will and life, other entities that were also in Saturn's entourage became active. These can be called "Spirits of Movement" (in Christian language: "Dynamis" or "Virtues"). These beings possess neither a physical nor an etheric body. […]
One could say that the "Spirits of Movement" make Saturn appear as a whole as a being endowed with a soul. […] To the supersensible vision, Saturn seems to be composed, at this stage of its evolution, of distinct Saturnian beings who possess neither personal life nor soul of their own, but who reflect the life and soul of the beings that inhabit it. […]
We call the beings that produce this effect “Spirits of Personality” (in Christian terms, “Archai” or “Principalities”). They confer upon the Saturnian particles the appearance of personality. However, personality itself does not exist on Saturn; there is, as it were, only its image, the outer envelope of personality. The “Spirits of Personality” have their true personality in the Saturnian periphery. And it is precisely because these “Spirits of Personality” allow their nature to be reflected by the Saturnian bodies… that they are granted this subtle substance described above as “heat.” In all of Saturn there is no inner life, but the “Spirits of Personality” recognize the image of their own inner life in what Saturn transmits to them in the form of heat.
In a previous article, I questioned what "ancient Saturn," as well as "ancient Sun" and "ancient Moon," represented!
Saturn was not the representation of Chronos, time, but of heat and the element of fire.
I will share with you some excerpts from Rudolf Steiner's book "Science of the Occult," in the chapter "Cosmic Evolution and the Human Being."
[...] Spiritual science can give this first planetary incarnation the name Saturn; it calls the second the Sun, the third the Moon, and the fourth Earth. It must be strongly emphasized that these names have no relation whatsoever to those that designate the planets of our current solar system, which bear the same names. Here, Saturn, Sun, and Moon are names that designate the ancient forms of evolution through which our Earth passed. [...]
To get a rough idea of the conditions prevailing during Saturnian evolution, one must understand that, essentially, nothing yet existed of the creatures and things that are currently part of Earth and that we attribute to the mineral, vegetable, and animal kingdoms […] Entities of this kind were also present during Saturnian evolution, and it is their activity on Saturn that gave rise to the subsequent evolution of humankind. […]
Let us try to completely disregard the heat emanating from external material bodies, and consider only the internal sensation one experiences when saying, "I feel hot" or "I feel cold." This internal experience alone can give us an idea of what Saturn was like at the stage of its evolution we have just described. One could have traversed the entire space it occupied without encountering a gas capable of exerting pressure, or a liquid or solid body capable of producing a luminous impression. But at every point in this space, without the slightest external influence, one would have had the feeling that a certain degree of heat prevailed there. A person today could not observe ancient Saturn.
The beings of which supersensible knowledge becomes aware when it observes Saturn were at a completely different stage of evolution than the terrestrial beings currently perceptible to the senses. Consciousness is confronted with beings that do not possess a physical body like ours […] The human physical body is not only subject to these laws, it is also imbued with mineral substance. However, on Saturn, there could not yet be any question of a mineral physical body of this kind […]
The physical body was therefore a body of heat, thin, subtle, of an etheric nature. And all of Saturn was constituted by such bodies of heat. These bodies of heat constituted the first outline of the current human body, both physical and mineral. This latter body formed much later from the first, into which gaseous, liquid, and solid substances were incorporated. Among the non-human beings that appear before supersensible consciousness at the moment Saturn appears to it, and which can be considered inhabitants of Saturn […]
Man possesses, as his highest element, the Spirit-Man. The Saturnian beings possessed an even higher element […] Like our Earth, Saturn was surrounded by an atmosphere, but this one was of a spiritual nature […] There were continuous exchanges between the calorific bodies of Saturn and the beings we have described. These beings immersed the components of their being in the physical heat bodies of Saturn […]
[…] If we seek to understand the origin of this “will,” we see it formed through the emanation of sublime beings who, by barely conceivable degrees, rose so high that, at the dawn of Saturnian evolution, they were capable of emanating this “will” from their own nature […]
These beings, whose bliss lies in emanating from the will in the nascent universe of Saturn, can be called "Spirits of the Will" (Christian esoteric science calls them "Thrones"). Once a certain stage of Saturnian evolution was reached under the combined action of will and life, other entities that were also in Saturn's entourage became active. These can be called "Spirits of Movement" (in Christian language: "Dynamis" or "Virtues"). These beings possess neither a physical nor an etheric body. […]
One could say that the "Spirits of Movement" make Saturn appear as a whole as a being endowed with a soul. […] To the supersensible vision, Saturn seems to be composed, at this stage of its evolution, of distinct Saturnian beings who possess neither personal life nor soul of their own, but who reflect the life and soul of the beings that inhabit it. […]
We call the beings that produce this effect “Spirits of Personality” (in Christian terms, “Archai” or “Principalities”). They confer upon the Saturnian particles the appearance of personality. However, personality itself does not exist on Saturn; there is, as it were, only its image, the outer envelope of personality. The “Spirits of Personality” have their true personality in the Saturnian periphery. And it is precisely because these “Spirits of Personality” allow their nature to be reflected by the Saturnian bodies… that they are granted this subtle substance described above as “heat.” In all of Saturn there is no inner life, but the “Spirits of Personality” recognize the image of their own inner life in what Saturn transmits to them in the form of heat.