Words like stones

Why would it have been neccessary to 'turn stones into bread'?

In olden times, when there were no machines, but people were beginning to understand the way of the world; the way in which we've come to live today in overdrive, they knew there had to be a system of vissible exchange for things they wanted, belonging to someone else. The bartering system must have worked well, but often one of the 'bartererers' were unhappy with his or her exchange of goods. So, I can immagine, a system of 'equality' had to be thought of.

Who knows what made the entrepreneurs of those days think of inventing the monetary system, as I'm sure that is what it must have been when someone got the bright idea of using stones as payment. These stones were just lying around in any case, no one had any use for them, because stone houses were definitely not thought of at the time.

So there, someone paid with a stone or two for services rendered, and voila: the system of payment was discovered. Soon the artists amongst those cave dwellers had the idea of pretifying them stones, even made small carvings on them as time went by. Not long before the stones got 'designed' and made smaller to fit into the equivalent of a handbag, belonging to the shoppers of those days. This must have been part of Ahriman's plan all along; a neat way of getting most earthlings subjected to submissiveness by striking on this handy little tool. A stone - of the earth - used as trading matter. Stones for skins, stones for tools, stones for food; food for thought hey?

But Christ was not of this earth, Rudolf Steiner reminds us. He was born to earth but a pure man. He had no comprehension of what it was too turn stones into bread. The law which was set for man after he and his wife ate the fruit from the tree of knowledge, was that they would learn to know pain and would have to work hard, but man's clever ways brought him to recognition that there could be stones, even for work done. Thus man learnt how to turn stones into bread by working for a salary

It is indeed true, there is nothing new under the sun . . .