All the planets and suns of our universe belong to the first three cosmic degrees of life. Life on the first Cosmic Degree of Life has as its basic forces Mother Moon and Father Sun. On the Moon, the first Cosmic Degree of Life, we as souls began our very first life. Here we developed our aquatic consciousness. Then the soul continued on the second Cosmic Degree of Life, first on six transitional planets and then on the mother planet Mars. Here we started developing our rural consciousness. After Mars, we experienced another six transitional states to prepare our bodies for life on the main planet of the third cosmic degree of life: Mother Earth. These transitional planets are scattered throughout our universe. They each have different atmospheric conditions, which are necessary for the compaction and growth of the human body. Those atmospheric conditions are mainly determined by the distance from their sun, and by the strength of that sun. These intermediate planets are also not located in our solar system. On the moon our waterly life began, on Mars we built our rural consciousness, and on earth the soul could fine tune its material body.
-We lived in the waters on the Moon, Mars al- ready gave us the land consciousness, and Mother Earth the perfect one for this universe, because she got hold of that task by means of Sun and Moon.
The Cosmology 1 p.105
-So these three macrocosmic grades of life now work on the human life, the animal life and the plant life”, so for the human, animal, maternal independence as organic life. The inner life expands itself and becomes the life of feeling and the personality.
Lectures Part 3 p.210
-It therefore goes without saying, if the secondary planets had lived close by Mother Earth, that becoming conscious would already go too fast, that power for those organs would not have been becoming conscious, but a grasping and feeling too high for the macrocosmic organism, but we have not yet got to know those laws either. Now there would have been no question of gradual evolution and we have to accept that. And that is clear, because we as human beings could not have made that leap. So we experience foundation after foundation, grade after grade, consciousness after consciousness, for fatherhood and motherhood. There is nothing else to be experienced, this is the Divine creation.
The secondary planets got to experience an own sphere and that was necessary. By means of this every stage got to experience the own evolu- tion at an attunement for Sun and Moon, for which the secondary planets now lie spread out in the universe.
The Cosmology Part 4 p.181
Source: Quotations from the books of Jozef Rulof