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I-4
Verbal description of human being’s creation, descent and renascent
expanded for seven Conditions of Life
Derived from foregoing three items
| 7 (Planetary) Conditions of Consciousness (Manvantaras) |
(Old) Saturn, Sun, Moon, (Present) Earth, (Future)
Jupiter, Venus, Vulcan
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| 7 Conditions of Life (Kingdoms or Rounds) |
(Old)
1st Elementary Kingdom, 2nd Elementary
Kingdom, 3rd Elementary Kingdom, (Present) Mineral Kingdom, (Future) Plant Kingdom,
Animal Kingdom, Human Kingdom
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| 7 Conditions of Form (Globes) |
(Old) Arupa, Rupa, Astral, (Present) Physical-Etheric,
(Future) Astral, Rupa, Arupa
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(Arupa
= Higher Devachan; Rupa = Devachan. Deva means spirit;
Devachan = Spiritland.)
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| 7 Great Epochs (Root Races) |
(Old)
Polaris, Hyperborea, Lemuria, Atlantis, (Present) 5th
Great Epoch, (Future) 6th Great Epoch, 7th
Great Epoch
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| 7 Cultural Ages (Eras or Sub-Races) |
(Ancient)
Indian, Persian, Egyptian, Graeco-Roman, (Present) 5th
Cultural Era a/k/a Germanic, (Future) 6th Cultural
Era a/k/a Slavic, 7th Cultural Era a/k/a American
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Charts
I-1, I-2
and I-4, in describing
Conditions of Life (Kingdoms or Rounds), use the term “Elementary Kingdom.”
In (THSY)
Chap. 5, Steiner gives the following explanation of humanity’s 7 Life
Conditions:
- Archetypal
formless beings—1st elementary kingdom
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Shape-creating beings—2nd elementary kingdom;
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Soul beings—3rd elementary kingdom;
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Created shapes (crystal forms)—mineral kingdom;
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Forms sensibly perceptible in which shape-creating beings are active—plant
kingdom;
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Forms sensibly perceptible in which shape-creating and soul beings
are active—animal kingdom;
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Forms sensibly perceptible in which shape-creating and soul beings
are active, and in which spirit fashions itself in form of thought
within the sense world—human kingdom
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Schematic I-3
