Vulcan
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On the seventh planet there is a completely purified state, where the tasks of the previous planets will be fulfilled, where the fruits will be drawn from them - that is the state of godliness.
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The origin of the planetary seals goes back to the Munich Congress of the Theosophical Society in May 1907. For the program booklet of this congress Rudolf Steiner drew five different planetary seals, also called "vignettes" by him, one for each day of the congress, starting with Saturday - Saturn, then Sunday - Sun, Monday - Moon, Tuesday - Mars, and as last Wednesday - Mercury. Two more seals, Jupiter and Venus, were added four years later, during the design of the Stuttgart Branch House in 1911, where all the seals in the meeting room were painted in gold on a dark blue background. Rudolf Steiner, as with all his artistic works, largely refrained from a more detailed explanation of these planetary seals. They are to be understood as a pictorial-imaginative representation of the successive stages of planetary development, which reveal their meaning even through meditative contemplation.
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Life levels - rounds: see details below.
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And on the seventh stage the shaping passes over into creating. The being, which has arrived there, creates such forms in its environment, which reproduce in miniature what its environment is in the large. It is the stage of the creative.
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See 134 – 140.
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On this planet, the preliminary goal of human development is reached. The state of consciousness into which man enters is called "Godliness" or spiritual consciousness. Man will attain it after repeating the six previous stages on the seventh volcanic cycle. Not much can be said publicly about the life on this planet. In the secret science they speak of it in such a way that they say: "About the Vulcan and its life should not be thought about by any soul, which is still bound to a physical body with its thinking." That is, only the secret students of the higher order can learn something about the volcano, who are allowed to leave their physical body and can acquire supersensible knowledge outside of it.