The Story of Creation: Saturn, Sun, Moon and Earth: the Evolution of Worlds

The Cosmology Path
Long before the Earth cooled into the ground beneath your feet, Steiner tells us, the world passed through earlier conditions he names after the heavenly bodies: an Old Saturn of pure warmth, an Old Sun of light and air, an Old Moon of watery life, and at last our Earth. This path follows that great arc of world-becoming. You begin with "Occult Science: An Outline," the volume where Steiner sets the whole picture down in order, then move outward to the spiritual hierarchies who guide each stage in "Spiritual Hierarchies and Their Reflection in the Physical World" and "Evolution in the Aspect of Realities." From there you turn toward humanity's own thread: the guidance of the individual soul, and the ancient memory of Lemuria and Atlantis carried in "Cosmic Memory." It is for the reader who wants the large frame first, who would rather see the cathedral whole before studying a single window. What it offers is a shift of scale: consciousness itself, yours included, as something slowly ripened across ages. Wander as you please. These are doors set ajar, not a syllabus to complete; open the one that calls to you, and let the others wait.
  1. 1Study Guide · GA 13Occult Science: An Outline

    Start here. This is Steiner's own ordered account of Saturn, Sun, Moon and Earth, and the human being's place within them. It gives you the whole frame the rest of the path fills in.

  2. 2Glossary TermsCosmic Evolution: Planets & Epochs

    A study cluster that maps the planetary conditions and the great epochs side by side, so the names and their sequence settle clearly before you go deeper into the lecture cycles.

  3. 3Study Guide · GA 110Spiritual Hierarchies and Their Reflection in the Physical World

    Now meet the guiding beings themselves. These lectures set out the ranks of spiritual hierarchies and how their working shines down into the visible, physical world you inhabit.

  4. 4Glossary TermsSpiritual Hierarchies & Nature Beings

    A companion cluster gathering the hierarchies and the finer nature beings in one view, useful for keeping the many orders and their tasks distinct as they multiply across the cycles.

  5. 5Study Guide · GA 132Evolution in the Aspect of Realities

    Five Berlin lectures that read evolution as moral deed: sacrifice, bestowal, renunciation. Here the abstract stages of the earlier volumes gain an inner, ethical weight you can feel.

  6. 6Study Guide · GA 15The Spiritual Guidance of the Individual and Humanity

    The scale narrows to the human thread. Steiner traces how the individual and humanity have been quietly guided, linking the cosmic ages to the growth of your own soul.

  7. 7Study Guide · GA 11Cosmic Memory

    The ancient past made intimate: humanity's buried memory of Lemuria and Atlantis, the earlier races of consciousness from which our present waking self slowly emerged.

  8. 8Glossary TermsSpiritual Beings in the Heavenly Bodies

    A closing cluster on the spiritual beings living in the planets and stars, drawing the arc back up to the heavens and inviting a second, richer reading of where you began.

Continue your journey
Begin HereNew to Steiner? Begin with the path he laid for the newcomer, and return to cosmology later. The Being of ChristFollow the being of Christ from the ancient mysteries to the turning point on Golgotha.
A path is a set of doors, never a syllabus. Wander freely. See all Study Paths, the GA Work Library, or the Anthroposophical Glossary.