659. As we have seen that part of terrestrial human beings' existence that is not in contact with the time span of the 24-hour cycle or the year cycle must therefore on Earth be maintained artificially. It is a fact for every civilised human being that this enormous artificial maintenance has come about merely in order to protect against suffering. But since there is a marked suffering in the Earth's organism that human beings have to contend with and struggle to overcome, it will also be a fact for the advanced researcher that the tilt in the axis and the resulting conditions prevent the Earth from taking up its natural position or its correct relationship to the centre of the solar system. If this were not the case the Earth's microbeings would have had no difficulties to contend with, other than the ordinary problems that arise in the struggle with the other fellow beings over the right to exist. There would have been no question of the macrobeing's organism in itself being a danger to its normal microbeings, causing them to have to actually struggle with it in order to be able to retain their rightful place within its being. That terrestrial human beings are indeed struggling in this way is also an extremely clear fact. How otherwise could the present highly developed society of civilised human beings have been able to represent, as its normal life, such a fairly tolerable existence if it had not gradually understood how to overcome, by artificial means, the difficulties that Mother Earth has caused her own organism through the adversity of her own fate? Without this struggle how could this society possibly have found somewhere to live in those parts of the Earth where Nature presents problems? Is it not precisely this struggle that has made exceptionally large areas of the Earth's continents habitable and serviceable for its high cultural development and manifestation? What would these zones have been like for such a society if it had not invented means of neutralising the effects of the macro-organism's adversity? In places where the greatest expression of intellectual ability is now to be found would there not have existed only primitive forms of life, robust and hairy ape-like creatures or rough, animal-like human beings living in caves like animals or in other barbaric ways withstanding the severity of the changing seasons in the temperate zones? Those who could not endure the deadly climate of the colder zones would have had to settle in the equatorial belt, which is not particularly favourable either, since the difficulties here lie at the opposite extreme. Here the temperature of the climate is too high in relation to the temperature of the human body. And the entire cultural life, which now dominates the world throughout the temperate zones, would not have been able to flourish if the microbeings themselves, through their inventiveness and technical skill, had not been able to create a defence against the highly unfavourable climate.
      That the existence of terrestrial human beings has reached such a high standard of technical skill is due solely to the fact that mankind has had to conduct its entire existence on an artificial basis and with a permanent struggle against the consequences of the tilt of the Earth's axis.