Evolution

Evolution is an essential cornerstone, but it is also a vast and complex theme to cover.

Main perspectives:

• spiritual hierarchies and their evolution in the great cosmic dynamic
• the macrosmos - heavenly bodies, our solar system, stars and planets
• Man, or the microcosmos .. how the make-up and consciousness of Man evolves
• evolution of the macrocosmos, of spiritual beings and all forms of life, of consciousness
• cosmogony, the origin of our solar system / cosmos

and the mapping to:

• religious texts
  • Bhagavad Gita
  • Book of Genesis
  • Book of Revelation
• Ancient history of myths and legends incl. sages, fairy tales, parables .. from various cultural traditions and artworks
• History

Contents

• Introductory to cosmology
  • Three dimensions of evolution : Conditions of Consciousness, Conditions of Life, Conditions of Form
  • principles of evolution
    • evolution and involution
    • sacrifice
    • Man and nature's kingdoms in evolution
• Overview of solar system evolution
  • solar system evolution in a nutshell
  • solar system evolution as the evolution of the Hierarchies
  • planetary seals
• Creation
• Creation of our solar system
• Old Saturn
• Old Sun
• Old Moon
• Earth
  • Earth rounds perspective
  • Various aspects
    • form: Evolution of Earth
    • Planets hosting beings at various stages of evolution
    • Human races
  • Earth's Seven Epochs and MoG perspective: Epochs in Earth physical round
    • Polarian epoch
    • Hyperborean epoch
    • Lemurian epoch
    • Atlantean epoch
      • Spiritual minority in a materialistic world
    • Current Postatlantean epoch
      • Indian cultural age
      • Persian cultural age
      • Egyptian cultural age
      • Greco-Latin cultural age
      • Anglo-German cultural age
        • Transition between 4th and 14th century
        • the Future Oriphiel age
      • Sixth cultural age ('russian')
      • Seventh cultural age ('american')
    • Sixth epoch
    • Seventh epoch
• Future Jupiter
• Future Venus
• Future Vulcan
• Advanced topics
  • The process of the Occult Atom
  • The two halves of an evolutionary cycle
  • The Yuga ages
  • Overlapping evolutionary periods
  • Recapitulation and Rememberance
  • Zodiac clock

Illustrations

Various dimensions and sources of information for studying evolution:

References and further reading

• 'Man: Fragments of Forgotten History', by 'two chelas' (1885)
• Cosmic Memory, by Rudolf Steiner (1904)
  • GA011 - format version 1
  • GA011 - format version 2
• Outline of Esoteric Science, by Rudolf Steiner (1910)
  • GA013 - format version 1
  • GA013 - format version 2