The EYE and the ECLIPSE

Forwarded by Rick Distasi

Dr Rudolf Steiner had once said that the human eye was created by the forces of the sun. As we developed here on earth over time and continued to live on the earth our eyes were created by the forces of the sun in order to perceive the light of the sun and the world around us. If you look at the photo below you will see a picture of a solar eclipse. The eclipse is like a picture of the human eye in its macrocosmic form. The darkened sun is a picture of the pupil of the human eye while the rays of the sun are as the iris of the human eye. You only have to look at one's own eye to see the comparison of the micro to the macro. The sun did create the human eye.

The following is from "Planetary Spheres and  Their Influence on Man's Life on Earth and in the Spiritual Worlds."
by Rudolf Steiner (22nd August,1922)

"On his way down towards a new earthly life, man, to begin with, still has the Sun and Moon within him. But they begin to contract. It is as though you were to feel the lobes of your lungs shrinking within you. So do you feel your cosmic life and being, your Sun and Moon-organ, shrinking. And thereupon, something detaches itself from the Sun and the Moon. Hitherto, you had Sun and Moon within you, but now you have before you a kind of image of Sun and Moon. All glistening and luminous, you have before you two immense spheres--immense they are to begin with. One of them is the Sun in spiritual form, the other is the Moon. The one is all alight and sparkling, the other is glimmering in its own warmth, more fiery-warm, holding the light as though more egotistically to itself.

 Now the two spheres which thus detach themselves from cosmically transmuted man--even 'Adam Kadmon' who is a reality to this day-- draw ever nearer to one another. We, on our way to Earth, say to ourselves : Sun and Moon are becoming one. Moreover, it is this that guides us-- far away back you must imagine it to be, even from our great-great-great-grandmother, great-great-grandmother, great-grandmother, grandmother and so on-- guides us at last to the mother who will give us birth. Sun and Moon are our guides--Sun and Moon drawing ever nearer to each other.

And thereupon we see another task before us. Far in the distance like a single point we see the human embryo that is to be. We see the single entity that has become of Sun and Moon, drawing near our mother. And now we see a task before us, which I can describe as follows. Take this (the glove) to represent what goes before us there-- the Sun and Moon united. We are aware that when our cosmic consciousness will have vanished and we shall go through a phase of darkness ( for so we do when we dive down into the embryo after conception), then we shall have to turn inside-out this entity that goes before us. And as we do so a tiny aperture will arise, through which, as Ego, we shall have to go. This, in its image, will then be there in our human body upon Earth. It is none other, my dear Friends, than the pupil of the human eye. For the one entity becomes two again, as though two mirror-images were to arise. these are the two human eyes : for they were once united, they were united Sun-and-Moon, and thereupon they turned inside-out.

Such is the task which then confronts you. You do it all unconsciously. You turn the whole thing round and inside-out, and go in through the tiny aperture that remains. And then it cleaves asunder: two physical images become of it in the growing embryo. For the physical embryonal eyes are but images, representing what has thus become of Sun and Moon."