Evolution of Earth

Earth is planetary evolutionary stage or Condition of Consciousness (CoC) going through various CoL and CoF, but with Earth we also refer to our current physical Earth in the current fourth Condition of Life.

across the CoL and CoF (see Three dimensions of Consciousness), see Earth rounds perspective
within the fourth CoL and the lowest physical Condition of Form, see Earth's seven epochs

Aspects

Adam Kadmon and Giant Ymir
formation of albumen of the living Earth due to the workings of the chemical ether in the Hyperborean epoch before the Separation of Sun
for positioning of the Earth stage of evolution, see Schemas FMC00.203 and FMC00.014 on Overview of solar system evolution

Illustrations

FMC00.057C provides an overview scheme for the study of the evolution of our current Earth planetary stage and CoC, the formation of the current physical solar system with the planets, the emergence of the spectrum of elements and ethers, and nature's kingdoms on Earth.

Note the threefold recapitulation at CoL level, at CoF level, and then at epoch level; as well as major events such as the Mars transit, and the separation of Sun and Moon. Compare also with FMC00.302 on Earth's seven epochs.

See also the excellent coverage by Iwer Thor Lorenzen.

FMC00.006A sketches the formation of the four elements in the physical domain and the current Condition of Form as a result of the third recapitulation, with its origin in previous evolutionary stages. See eg 1908-03-16-GA102. The schema FMC00.006 embedded in the lower right shows how a substance can appear in multiple 'form appearances', see also Potentization.

FMC00.206 shows various world maps projecting the continents in the Lemurian and Atlantean epochs (see also FMC00.209 on Earth's seven epochs), see correspondence with FMC00.214 and other maps on Atlantean epoch.

Schema FMC00.606: combines two illustrations by Dankmar Bosse showing the living Earth as it chrystallized with gradual densification in the previous Earth epochs to the current mineral Earth we know today.

The two illustrations were combined to support contemplation of the evolutionary process and the formation and deposition of minerals that can be found in geological layers.

combines two illustrations by Dankmar Bosse showing the living Earth as it chrystallized with gradual densification in the previous Earth epochs to the current mineral Earth we know today. The two illustrations were combined to support contemplation of the evolutionary process and the formation and deposition of minerals that can be found in geological layers.

Lecture coverage and references

1923-02-17-GA349

talks about the living earth, past and future

everything goes in cycles, we look back to an earlier time where the earth was fluid in what are now its hardest forms .. then everything cooled down and solid forms arose .. but this will change back again. ..
.. we may say the earth merely sleeps in relation to the cosmos, only it is a long sleep, 15.000 years at least. Once it lived: then it was awake, and connected with the whole of cosmic space.
.. Now you are able to walk on solid ground, but this solid ground will wake up again and be living life, it is really only sleeping

longer extract: (SWCC)

.. by such a course of the stars one can see how everything on earth changes. With the conditions brought by our present vernal point, we have our high mountains with the dead granite masses, containing feldspar, quartz and mica. It is all dried up, devastated. So it was, too, 25,920 years ago: similar conditions then prevailed on earth.
But in between it was all different. For instance, the sun rose at one time in spring in Libra, between Virgo and Scorpio. Then the whole earth was alive, soft, was in fact a kind of plant. We need not go back more than 15,000 years at most, then through the quite different position of the sun the earth had a plant nature, and later an animal nature. We should be able to follow from the sun's course how the influences coming in from cosmic space have altered conditions on the earth.
You must think to yourselves, as you go back in time: the rock in the primeval Alps which is quite hard and solid to-day begins to flow, somewhat as iron flows in an iron foundry. It is naturally not quite the same, for when we go back the flow is reversed, as it were, it is in process of becoming solid. And if we go forward into the future, we shall again have the sun in Libra — for now it rises in Pisces, after 2,160 years in Aquarius, then in Capricorn, Sagittarius and once more in Libra, the Scales. At this future time when the sun rises once more in the Scales, the whole primeval Alpine range will have dissolved. The dense quartzes will have become fluid again, the earth will once more be plant-like and men and animals return to the condition in which they formerly were. In the meanwhile, however, they have absorbed all that they could take in on the earth.
So everything really goes in a circle. We look back to an earlier time when the earth and its hardest formations were fluid. Then the cosmos above brought forth such creatures as I once described to you; they arose through the in-working of heavenly forces and died out. Then all cooled down, solid formations arose and gradually there came the life of to-day. But it all goes back again. The granular quartz and granite, etc., are dissolved and former conditions return, but at a higher stage of evolution.
If you take in your hand a piece of granite containing quartz, you can say: This piece of granite with its quartz will at a future time be alive again. It has lived in former ages and to-day it is dead. It has formed solid ground upon which we can walk about. When we did not need to walk, the solid ground was not there. But one day it will come to life again.
The earth sleeps as regards cosmic space — only the sleep is long, 15,000 years at least. When the earth was alive it was awake, it was in connection with the whole universe and the life forces of the universe brought forth upon it the great beasts. Later, as solidity was reached, these forces brought forth the human beings. Human beings nowadays have a pleasant time of it on earth — of course in regard to the universe too — they can go about on solid ground. But this solid ground will wake up again — it is really only asleep — it will wake up again and become active life.
If we take a piece of chalk, limestone, it is the remains of a portion of life. It is deposited from life, but someday it will be alive again, it is between life and life and is really only asleep.

1924-07-03-GA354

Discussion

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References and further reading

Dankmar Bosse: 'The Mutual Evolution of Earth and Humanity - Sketch of a Geology and Paleontology of the Living Earth' (2019)
Iwer Thor Lorenzen (evolution covered in his three main books)
Walther Cloos: 'The living Earth'