Sons of Venus
Man has been evolving upon earth since primeval times. His evolution on earth is similar to the relationship between the child and the adult. The latter teaches the small child. The same applies to the hierarchies in the cosmos. Man, chained to the earth as he is, can only gradually struggle through to the knowledge he needs for the practicalities of life on earth. Higher beings have to be his teachers. But what should occur so that this goal may be achieved? In the early phases of earth existence, beings not normally bound to the earth had to descend upon it from higher spheres. This really happened! Beings who needed only to live in the surroundings of the earth descended in order to impart to mankind what they already knew as older, more perfect members of the hierarchies. They incarnated into human bodies, not for the sake of their own development, much as the adult does not spend his time with the alphabet for his own progress but in order to teach the child. Looking back into Atlantean and Lemurian times, we find beings belonging to the surrounding spheres incarnating into human bodies and becoming the teachers of mankind. Beings belonging to the higher hierarchies, to Mercury and Venus, Sons of Venus and Mercury, descended and became the teachers of mankind in its youth. They wandered upon the earth as maya. Yes, such men existed. Let us suppose, in order to explain it more clearly, that a normally developed Lemurian human being had met such a man. Outwardly, he did not appear particularly different from others, but a spirit dwelt in him whose realm reached up to Mercury or Venus. His outer appearance was maya, an illusion. He looked like other men but he was, in fact, a Son of Mercury, of Venus.
At the dawn of the evolution of humanity there were such appearances. These Venus beings are Spirits of Personality. They wandered on the earth as men, outwardly restricted to the limiting form of human beings, yet powerfully guiding humanity. A mighty lordship reigned in Lemurian times as the Sons of Venus guided mankind. -Rudolf Steiner
Sons of Venus
Man has been evolving upon earth since primeval times. His evolution on earth is similar to the relationship between the child and the adult. The latter teaches the small child. The same applies to the hierarchies in the cosmos. Man, chained to the earth as he is, can only gradually struggle through to the knowledge he needs for the practicalities of life on earth. Higher beings have to be his teachers. But what should occur so that this goal may be achieved? In the early phases of earth existence, beings not normally bound to the earth had to descend upon it from higher spheres. This really happened! Beings who needed only to live in the surroundings of the earth descended in order to impart to mankind what they already knew as older, more perfect members of the hierarchies. They incarnated into human bodies, not for the sake of their own development, much as the adult does not spend his time with the alphabet for his own progress but in order to teach the child. Looking back into Atlantean and Lemurian times, we find beings belonging to the surrounding spheres incarnating into human bodies and becoming the teachers of mankind. Beings belonging to the higher hierarchies, to Mercury and Venus, Sons of Venus and Mercury, descended and became the teachers of mankind in its youth. They wandered upon the earth as maya. Yes, such men existed. Let us suppose, in order to explain it more clearly, that a normally developed Lemurian human being had met such a man. Outwardly, he did not appear particularly different from others, but a spirit dwelt in him whose realm reached up to Mercury or Venus. His outer appearance was maya, an illusion. He looked like other men but he was, in fact, a Son of Mercury, of Venus.
At the dawn of the evolution of humanity there were such appearances. These Venus beings are Spirits of Personality. They wandered on the earth as men, outwardly restricted to the limiting form of human beings, yet powerfully guiding humanity. A mighty lordship reigned in Lemurian times as the Sons of Venus guided mankind. -Rudolf Steiner