And now we turn to the second question: Let us ask what the Mystery of Golgotha means for the Earth and what would happen with the Earth if this holy mystery had not occurred?
In order to answer this question, one must first be clear about what the Earth actually is. When one wants to use Man as the measure of all things for the purpose of gaining knowledge of the world, as the ancients used to do, then one will have to say to oneself, that the Earth is nothing else than a retarded, inverted human being, and that the Gods on their part are advanced human beings.
For the Earth is just as much longing for a true humanhood, as the Gods are counting on this advanced manhood in their further development.
As a retarded, inverted human being the Earth has a mind, a consciousness, which has long been overcome by today’s human being but which he possessed at the ancient Saturn period. However this all-encompassing Saturn consciousness of the Earth has been dulled due to the fact that she is no longer in that state of warmth in which Man was free to live, but in a state of cosmic frost. Now, as warmth is an expression of divine love, love so powerful that it can also be sensed from the outside, so is cosmic frost an expression of Ahriman’s hate. Since the Earth has this been brought into a state of frost, she had to fall prey to the influence of Ahriman. But in so far as the Earth in this state of frost also has a Saturn consciousness, a consciousness that the Man possessed during the existence on Saturn, she is connected with the human being.
Now the Earth feels but dimly that Man in his body, which consists of its substances, does something that it cannot do, namely that Man develops in this body a consciousness which in its case can only operate outside the body.
And now the earth is seized as a consequence of this by a peculiar desire. In order to better understand this dim desire of the Earth, one must know the mutual relationship between the microcosm and the macrocosm. They namely relate to one another in such a way that they supplement each other and long for each other. The big world is for the microcosm an ideal. For the macrocosm on the other hand, as well as for the Earth, which is also a macrocosmic being, the small world, which can take up the spirit, is also an ideal. Thus the microcosm emulates the big, the macrocosm the small world.
Dimly the Earth is striving to become in future what Man is today, to be able to inwardly spiritualize herself as well, for she wants to become good, to imbue herself with the good. She would like to invert herself in order to carry the true humanhood in itself. Because she is however a macrocosmic being, she does not only aspire to take up the individual human, but would like to become the abode for the great cosmic-I, its body. She seeks to relate to this great cosmic-I as an individual human body relates to its I.
By which means now does the Earth want to fulfill her dim desire? She wants to fulfill it by nourishing herself with Man. And the nourishment of the Earth that she needs namely is – the corpses of earthly human beings. The human body that she gives to the human being at his birth is what she wants back after the death of the human being. For the human being possess the wonderful gift through the morality of his thinking, feeling and willing to spiritualize the earthly substantiality. And the human being could attain this without hindrances, could deliver the nourishment to the Earth that she needs, were it not that the Fall of Man had occurred.
Now as we know the Fall of Man took place, as a result of which the whole relationship between Man and the earth became different. Instead of remaining an ideal, instead of revealing the true human nature within him, fragmented Man became a temptation for the Earth. For the materiality that human beings after their death supplied to the earth became more and more poisonous for her, inebriating and benumbing it.
However, the dim desire of the Earth to take up Man inwardly nevertheless persists. And if the task of the Man can no longer happen through a spiritualization of earthly substantiality, then the Earth attempts to accomplish this in another way, namely through the materialization of the human spirit. Since she does not receive any spiritual refreshment from Man, she tries to seduce him. Therein the double nature of the Earth is expressed, which similar to Kundry from the Grail legend is at the same time a handmaiden of the Grail and a medium of Klingsor.
If one knows this tendency of the Earth of taking up Man inwardly, then it becomes understandable what would have to happen to the Earth, in case Christ not had appeared on the Earth. Then the Earth would more and more have become a medium of Klingsor and like a Kundry seduce Man more and more. She would then over time devour Man. For then not the Earth would acquire human consciousness, but mankind would develop backwards to the trance consciousness of the past, to a consciousness that would be a return to the ancient Saturn consciousness. The whole development of mankind would then, according to the intentions of Ahriman, have to become retrograde and end with nothingness. For mankind, however, this backward development would signify a fall in hell.
However, Christ has come into the world and has gone through death like all mortals. He has fulfilled the desire of the Earth. On this Only One, on this Most High the Earth has bestowed its bettermost, all the most noble that has remained behind from ancient Saturn, as the physical phantom of Man, all the most noble that has remained behind from the ancient Sun as the etheric, all the most noble that has remained from the ancient Moon as the astral. All kingdoms of nature give their most noble for the sheaths of this Holy Body. And in these noble cosmic sheaths of the corporeality of Jesus, in this true microcosm, descended the great macrocosmic I of mankind, just as a human I descends in a normal process of becoming self-consciousness.
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