...a very important event occurred at the end of the 70's of the 19 ^th century... now a time is beginning when beings who are not human are coming down to Earth from cosmic regions beyond. These beings are not human but depend for the further development of their existence on coming to Earth and on entering here into relationships with men. Thus, ...heavenly beings are seeking to enter this Earth existence.

Heavenly beings are already here in our Earth existence. And it is thanks to the fact that beings from beyond the Earth are bringing messages down into this Earthly existence that it is at all possible to have a comprehensive spiritual science available today.

...however, how does the human race behave? ...the human behaves in a cosmically rude way toward the beings who are appearing from the cosmos on Earth, albeit, slowly to begin with. Humanity takes no notice of them, ignores them. It is this that will lead the Earth into increasingly tragic conditions. For in the course of the next few centuries, more and more spirit beings will move among us whose language we ought to understand.

... Initially, these were beings dwelling in the sphere between the Moon and Mercury.

...Spirit beings are seeking to come down into Earth existence and must be received. Upheaval upon upheaval will ensue, and Earth existence will at length arrive at social chaos if these beings descended and human existence were to consist only of opposition against them (via the unredeemed shadowy intellect). For these beings wish to be nothing less than the advance guard of what will happen to Earth existence when the Moon reunites with the Earth (in the 8 ^th millennium A.D.).

...The beings I have spoken about will descend gradually to the Earth. ...Vulcan supermen, Venus supermen, Mercury supermen, Sun supermen, and so on will unite themselves with Earth existence. Yet, if human beings persist in their opposition to them. this Earth existence will pass over into chaos in the course of the next few thousand years. People will indeed be capable of developing their intellect in an automatic way; it can develop even in the midst of barbaric conditions. The fullness of human potential, however, will not be included in this intellect and people will have no relationship to the beings who wish graciously to come down to them into earthly life.

All the beings presently conceived so incorrectly in people's thoughts - incorrectly because the mere shadow intellect can only conceive of the mineral, the crudely material element, be it in the mineral, plant, animal or even human kingdom - these thoughts of human beings that have no reality all of a sudden will become realities when the Moon and the Earth will unite again. From the Earth there will spring forth a horrible brood of beings. In character they will be in between the mineral and plant kingdoms. They will be beings resembling automatons, with an over abundant intellect of great intensity.

Along with this development, which will spread over the Earth, the latter will be covered as if by a network or web of ghastly spiders possessing tremendous wisdom. Yet their organization will not even reach up to the level of plants. They will be horrible spiders who will be entangled with one another. In their outward movements they will imitate everything human beings have invented with their shadowy intellect which did not allow itself to be stimulated by what is to come through new Imaginations and through spiritual science in general. 

... the Earth will be covered with hideous mineral-plant-like spiders that intertwine with one another most cleverly but in a frighteningly evil manner. To the extent that human beings have not redeemed their intellect through Imaginations, they will have to unite their being, not with the entities who are seeking to descend since the last third of the nineteenth century, but instead with these spider creatures.

You see, this is something that is very much a reality of Earth humanity's evolution. It is known today by a large number of those human beings who hold mankind back from receiving spiritual scientific knowledge. For there are those who are actually conscious allies of this spidery entangling of human Earth existence. Today, we must no longer recoil from descriptions such as these.