The Dissolution of Gender Dynamics
Steiner states that by this time, advanced human Egos will have spiritually outgrown the dense mineral-physical body.
Steiner states that by this time, advanced human Egos will have spiritually outgrown the dense mineral-physical body.
This happens right here on Earth, centuries before the planet enters into an entirely new phase.
The year 5600 AD marks a massive evolutionary boundary. We will be deep within the Sixth Post-Atlantean Epoch (the Slavic cultural epoch).
Steiner states that by this time, advanced human Egos will have spiritually outgrown the dense mineral-physical body. The physical vessel will become far too rigid and heavy to fully hold a highly evolved human soul.
Because of this, human reproduction through internal physical pregnancy and birth will completely cease. The soul will no longer "dive all the way down" into a physical womb.
The physical forms that remain on earth will be increasingly "guided" or animated by the Ego from the outside, operating through the etheric and astral fields rather than being fully trapped within a physical bone-and-flesh casing.
The transition to the creative word begins internally long before the physical organs wither.
* Between now and 5600 AD, humanity is meant to shift the creative, reproductive life-force (the Kundalini or transformed sexual energy) upward into the throat chakra.
* By the 6th epoch, even though the larynx hasn't become a physical "womb," the creative power of speech and will is what will condense the etheric substances from the outside to form new vehicles for incoming souls, entirely bypassing sexual intercourse. Therefore, functional physical sexes will become obsolete by 5600 AD.
The year 7800 AD—the conclusion of the Seventh Post-Atlantean Epoch and the climax of the War of All against All—constitutes an incredibly profound moment.
In Anthroposophical cosmology, the Moon was originally thrown out of the Earth to allow life to remain soft and flexible. Steiner predicted that around the late 7000s AD, the Moon forces will draw back into and re-integrate with the Earth.
This re-entry causes an extreme, final mineralization and hardening of the physical earth. It becomes a wasteland of "slag" or dross. This dense, unredeemed material reality is exactly what threatens to fall into the Eighth Sphere—a realm of pure, hardened, illusory matter cut off from cosmic evolution.
At this point, no true, healthy physical reality remains for human evolution. The humans who have chosen the spiritual path will live entirely in etheric and astral states, floating "above" the hardened earth. Meanwhile, those who bound themselves entirely to materialism and lower drives will become trapped in that hardened, automated slag-world below.
Physical gender and biological sex do not survive until the end of the Earth's lifecycle. They are actively phased out starting around 5600 AD as the human soul pulls back from the physical body, culminating in the complete dissolution of normal physical earth-existence by 7800 AD.