The Collected Works of Charles Fort | Charles Fort
Existence sits between positiveness and negativeness, between the real and the unreal. Nothing achieves absolute being or absolute nonbeing, only approximations varying in their degree of realness. This quasi existence operates through perpetual attempts at positiveness, though harmony, equilibrium, and order all express the same unrealizable state. So do regularity, stability, and consistency. Unity, system, organization, individuality—these aren't different concepts but synonyms for one condition that remains forever out of reach. Every phenomenon strives toward this completeness by excluding other phenomena, yet this exclusion remains necessarily false because continuity pervades all things. No positive differences exist to establish boundaries.
Red merges into yellow through orange, making any classification based on redness versus yellowness fundamentally invalid. Definitions collapse under scrutiny because all defined things merge into what they supposedly differ from. Life can't be positively distinguished from chemistry. Electricity can't be separated from magnetism or heat. Animals grade into vegetables at their merging points. Science functions as one expression of this universal attempt at positiveness, systematizing data to approximate realness while damning the unassimilable. The damned constitute excluded data that Science can't integrate into its quasi system, forming processions of the accursed whose acceptance would destabilize existing organizational structures.
Fort's catalog is extensive and bizarre. Stones that Science initially denied could fall from the sky. Butter. Blood. Colored substances. Hailstones of impossible sizes, including one the size of an elephant at Seringapatam, India, and snowflakes 15 inches across in Montana. Blue moons and green suns appeared alongside brilliant sunsets following the 1883 Krakatoa eruption, though these atmospheric effects showed up in Trinidad before the eruption occurred and in Natal, South Africa, six months prior, contradicting orthodox explanations entirely. Black rains, red rains, pink snow, jet black snow, blue hailstones all descended. So did punk, silk, charcoal, paper, wool, and resin.
The sky reveals aerial constructions suggesting purposeful design. Something like a man surrounded by machinery moved over Louisville in September 1880 under apparent control. The French fishing smack Jeanne Frederic reported a large, black, bird-like object off Normandy in July 1910 that fell into the sea, bounded back, and disappeared. September 1910 brought processions of round objects over New York City that crowds watched for several hours. Fort proposes that stars exist not at impossible distances but as points in a concave shell land surrounding earth. Dark nebulae appear as bare patches of this shell. The Horse-head nebula stands out like a mountain peak, solid looking, with light coming over its summit as dawn tops a mountain but not penetrating through it. The America nebula takes the shape of North America with islands of light out from its Gulf of Mexico. Stars may be volcanoes in this shell land, their variations corresponding with solar movements as reflections from points of land or from lakes in extinct or dormant craters. Some variable stars maintain periods of about a year, which remains inexplicable if they're trillions of miles away but makes perfect sense as reflections responding to the sun's spiral motion around this almost stationary earth.
Existence sits between positiveness and negativeness, between the real and the unreal. Nothing achieves absolute being or absolute nonbeing, only approximations varying in their degree of realness. This quasi existence operates through perpetual attempts at positiveness, though harmony, equilibrium, and order all express the same unrealizable state. So do regularity, stability, and consistency. Unity, system, organization, individuality—these aren't different concepts but synonyms for one condition that remains forever out of reach. Every phenomenon strives toward this completeness by excluding other phenomena, yet this exclusion remains necessarily false because continuity pervades all things. No positive differences exist to establish boundaries.
Red merges into yellow through orange, making any classification based on redness versus yellowness fundamentally invalid. Definitions collapse under scrutiny because all defined things merge into what they supposedly differ from. Life can't be positively distinguished from chemistry. Electricity can't be separated from magnetism or heat. Animals grade into vegetables at their merging points. Science functions as one expression of this universal attempt at positiveness, systematizing data to approximate realness while damning the unassimilable. The damned constitute excluded data that Science can't integrate into its quasi system, forming processions of the accursed whose acceptance would destabilize existing organizational structures.
Fort's catalog is extensive and bizarre. Stones that Science initially denied could fall from the sky. Butter. Blood. Colored substances. Hailstones of impossible sizes, including one the size of an elephant at Seringapatam, India, and snowflakes 15 inches across in Montana. Blue moons and green suns appeared alongside brilliant sunsets following the 1883 Krakatoa eruption, though these atmospheric effects showed up in Trinidad before the eruption occurred and in Natal, South Africa, six months prior, contradicting orthodox explanations entirely. Black rains, red rains, pink snow, jet black snow, blue hailstones all descended. So did punk, silk, charcoal, paper, wool, and resin.
The sky reveals aerial constructions suggesting purposeful design. Something like a man surrounded by machinery moved over Louisville in September 1880 under apparent control. The French fishing smack Jeanne Frederic reported a large, black, bird-like object off Normandy in July 1910 that fell into the sea, bounded back, and disappeared. September 1910 brought processions of round objects over New York City that crowds watched for several hours. Fort proposes that stars exist not at impossible distances but as points in a concave shell land surrounding earth. Dark nebulae appear as bare patches of this shell. The Horse-head nebula stands out like a mountain peak, solid looking, with light coming over its summit as dawn tops a mountain but not penetrating through it. The America nebula takes the shape of North America with islands of light out from its Gulf of Mexico. Stars may be volcanoes in this shell land, their variations corresponding with solar movements as reflections from points of land or from lakes in extinct or dormant craters. Some variable stars maintain periods of about a year, which remains inexplicable if they're trillions of miles away but makes perfect sense as reflections responding to the sun's spiral motion around this almost stationary earth.
Biological anomalies manifest in patterns suggesting organized rather than random occurrence. Something killed sheep at Ennerdale in 1810 by biting jugular veins and draining blood without consuming flesh, behaving unlike any known terrestrial predator. Throughout early 1874 in Ireland, sheep died with throats cut and blood drained, leaving 42 instances across three townlands with footprints long and narrow showing strong claws. At Badminton in 1905, Sergeant Carter of Gloucestershire Police stated definitively that dogs don't suck blood from sheep and leave flesh untouched. Something black and enormous slaughtered sheep at Edale in 1925, leaving carcasses with torn legs, shoulders, heads, broken backs, and ripped flesh. In Russia during 1893, an unknown beast terrorized the Orel Government, attacking predominantly women, sometimes killing and devouring victims. Hunts involving three officers, 130 men, and armies of 1,000 peasants organized by Prince Sherincki failed to locate the creature, which disappeared when war was declared upon it. These biological phenomena cease when publicity intensifies or when organized response reaches certain thresholds, suggesting intelligence beyond animal behavior.
Cyclical patterns pervade Fort's observations. The damned won't stay damned, with salvation preceding perdition in rhythms of heavens and hells. What gets excluded today becomes the excluding tomorrow. New stars were repeatedly discovered by amateurs while professional astronomers failed to observe them despite equipment aimed at relevant sky regions. Nova Pictoris shone as a third magnitude star for 44 nights in May 1925, visible over observatories on four continents, yet professionals photographed it somnambulistically without recognizing it. The June 1918 nova was discovered widely except by astronomers, who required telegram notifications from multiple amateurs before acknowledging it. New stars appear in clusters suggesting eruptions in one region of especially active volcanic land, with Nova Cygni III appearing close to where preceding new stars had erupted. Mysterious disappearances occur in patterns: the Danish training ship Kobenhoven vanished with fifty persons in December 1928, the British Atalanta disappeared with 250 persons in 1880, and the German bark Freya was found abandoned and damaged in October 1902. Coordinated attacks manifest rhythmically, like the twelve men injured in quick succession across different parts of Brooklyn in April 1893, almost all by falling from high places or being struck by falling objects, or the three soldiers struck senseless by unseen forces on successive nights in Colchester, England, in April 1911.
Cyclical patterns pervade Fort's observations. The damned won't stay damned, with salvation preceding perdition in rhythms of heavens and hells. What gets excluded today becomes the excluding tomorrow. New stars were repeatedly discovered by amateurs while professional astronomers failed to observe them despite equipment aimed at relevant sky regions. Nova Pictoris shone as a third magnitude star for 44 nights in May 1925, visible over observatories on four continents, yet professionals photographed it somnambulistically without recognizing it. The June 1918 nova was discovered widely except by astronomers, who required telegram notifications from multiple amateurs before acknowledging it. New stars appear in clusters suggesting eruptions in one region of especially active volcanic land, with Nova Cygni III appearing close to where preceding new stars had erupted. Mysterious disappearances occur in patterns: the Danish training ship Kobenhoven vanished with fifty persons in December 1928, the British Atalanta disappeared with 250 persons in 1880, and the German bark Freya was found abandoned and damaged in October 1902. Coordinated attacks manifest rhythmically, like the twelve men injured in quick succession across different parts of Brooklyn in April 1893, almost all by falling from high places or being struck by falling objects, or the three soldiers struck senseless by unseen forces on successive nights in Colchester, England, in April 1911.
Continuity renders all systematic attempts provisional. Islands appear distinct in a dark sea yet remain projections from the same ocean floor, their apparent individuality an illusion of incomplete perception. Human individuals exist not as discrete entities but as localized expressions within an inter continuous nexus, continuous with environment, merging into infinitudes of interdependent complexes. All motion expresses equilibrating rather than equilibrium. All being constitutes intermediate failure between absolute success and absolute failure. This existence functions as embryonic organism developing toward states unrealized, with phenomena corresponding to metabolic processes where positivizing and negativizing conflicts maintain the hyphenated condition. Certainty uncertainty, good badness, order disorder pervade without resolution into either extreme. The mathematical and regular characterize the Universal alone, while local phenomena express only approximations corrupted by external forces preventing complete systematization. Science operates through hypnosis rather than proof, compelling belief through dominant force rather than demonstration, since nothing can be proved where no positive standards exist for judgment. Acceptance replaces belief as methodology because cells in embryos assume different appearances across developmental eras, with firmly established forms resisting change and impeding development. Temporary acceptance facilitates adaptation where rigid belief ossifies. Fort assembles excluded data through conventional methods of theologians, savages, scientists, and children because no positively different methods exist where all phenomena merge continuously. The quest involves not absolute knowledge but higher approximations to organization and consistency than preceded them. Truth, beauty, justice, and all idealized states remain realizable only in the Universal, that besides which nothing else exists. Local attempts to achieve these states through exclusion and boundary drawing fail inevitably due to relations with outside forces, yet phenomena must attempt such positiveness to achieve even quasi being. This creates the paradox animating existence: all things attempting to become universal by excluding other things, though exclusion itself prevents universalization.
Bibliography (All of Fort's Books to be posted in the Private Group Soon)
"The Complete Books of Charles Fort, Volume 1" (The Book of the Damned, New Lands, Lo!, Wild Talents)
"The Complete Books of Charles Fort, Volume 2"
Bibliography (All of Fort's Books to be posted in the Private Group Soon)
"The Complete Books of Charles Fort, Volume 1" (The Book of the Damned, New Lands, Lo!, Wild Talents)
"The Complete Books of Charles Fort, Volume 2"
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Man: Hieroglyph of the Universe | Rudolf Steiner
April 9—May 16, 1920, GA 201
https://rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA201/English/RSP1972/
Lecture is also known as: Mystery of the Universe The Human Being Image of Creation
Lecture Audio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlDL-W0EVzM
Excerpts gathered from: The Celestial Ethers & Plasma by Douglas Gabriel
Lecture I
"Man can find absolutely nothing in the Universe unless he finds it first in himself. He does not experience, for instance, the assuming of the upright position, being in the vertical; and so, he is not aware that he is in a vertical position for the simple reason that he moves together with the Earth in a certain direction which adheres to the vertical. Neither does he know that he makes his breathing movements, his digestive and eating movements, as well as other movements, in a direction through which the Earth also moves in a certain line. All this adherence to certain directions of movement implies an adaptation, a fitting into, the movements of the Universe."
"The ability to think of the Universe as an organism depends on our learning to understand the hieroglyph of the organism we have before us. We must learn to perceive Man as a hieroglyph of the Universe, for he gives us the opportunity of seeing near at hand how different are above and below, left and right, before and behind. We must learn this first in Man, and we shall then find it in the Universe."
Lecture II
"At the present period in human thought we compress the whole world within abstract lines of space, standing perpendicular to one another and forming the three dimensions of space, whereas in its life aspect this three-dimensional world proves to be much more complicated and much more concrete."
"After yesterday's suggestions, Dr. Stein has taken the trouble to construct a model showing the movements which result when we follow Man together with the Earth, or in other words the movement of the Earth taken in its absolute sense. If instead of following this time the motion of plant-forces in spirals, I follow the movements described by Man with the Earth, I again come upon a spiral, but one which is progressive. This spiral gives us an illustration of the real movement of the Earth at one and the same time or picture of the Sun. Suppose for a moment that the Earth is here and the Sun there. An observer sees the Sun in this direction. (see diagram) The Earth progresses, but exactly in a line behind the Sun. When the Earth is here, the observer now sees the Sun in another direction. The Sun advances still further, the Earth follows, and once again the observer sees the Sun in the other direction. That is to say, he sees the Sun at one time on the right, and another time on the left, owing to the way in which the Earth follows the Sun."
"The Earth moves behind the Sun in a screw-like line, the Earth moving along always with the Sun. And if we view the line from above, we get a projection of the line, and the projection shows a lemniscate."
"Now, all this will make it clear that we can certainly speak of a daily motion of the Earth around her axis, but by no means of a yearly motion of the Earth around the Sun. For the Earth follows the Sun, describing the same path."
"Various other facts show that we have no right to speak of such a revolution. That line which should be apparent to us, and which would correspond to the progressive motion of the Earth in her relation to the Sun, is not to be found [in scientific calculations or theory]."
"It is in a spiral, screw-like path that the Earth follows the Sun, boring her way, as it were, into cosmic space."
"I have already indicated, however, that there is another movement which manifests in the phenomena of the Precession of the Equinoxes—the movement of the point of sunrise at the Spring-equinox through the Zodiac, once in 25,920 years. When the vernal equinox has come back again to the same place, the alterations that will have taken place in the whole human race are such that the human form will be quite dissimilar to what it is now."
April 9—May 16, 1920, GA 201
https://rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA201/English/RSP1972/
Lecture is also known as: Mystery of the Universe The Human Being Image of Creation
Lecture Audio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlDL-W0EVzM
Excerpts gathered from: The Celestial Ethers & Plasma by Douglas Gabriel
Lecture I
"Man can find absolutely nothing in the Universe unless he finds it first in himself. He does not experience, for instance, the assuming of the upright position, being in the vertical; and so, he is not aware that he is in a vertical position for the simple reason that he moves together with the Earth in a certain direction which adheres to the vertical. Neither does he know that he makes his breathing movements, his digestive and eating movements, as well as other movements, in a direction through which the Earth also moves in a certain line. All this adherence to certain directions of movement implies an adaptation, a fitting into, the movements of the Universe."
"The ability to think of the Universe as an organism depends on our learning to understand the hieroglyph of the organism we have before us. We must learn to perceive Man as a hieroglyph of the Universe, for he gives us the opportunity of seeing near at hand how different are above and below, left and right, before and behind. We must learn this first in Man, and we shall then find it in the Universe."
Lecture II
"At the present period in human thought we compress the whole world within abstract lines of space, standing perpendicular to one another and forming the three dimensions of space, whereas in its life aspect this three-dimensional world proves to be much more complicated and much more concrete."
"After yesterday's suggestions, Dr. Stein has taken the trouble to construct a model showing the movements which result when we follow Man together with the Earth, or in other words the movement of the Earth taken in its absolute sense. If instead of following this time the motion of plant-forces in spirals, I follow the movements described by Man with the Earth, I again come upon a spiral, but one which is progressive. This spiral gives us an illustration of the real movement of the Earth at one and the same time or picture of the Sun. Suppose for a moment that the Earth is here and the Sun there. An observer sees the Sun in this direction. (see diagram) The Earth progresses, but exactly in a line behind the Sun. When the Earth is here, the observer now sees the Sun in another direction. The Sun advances still further, the Earth follows, and once again the observer sees the Sun in the other direction. That is to say, he sees the Sun at one time on the right, and another time on the left, owing to the way in which the Earth follows the Sun."
"The Earth moves behind the Sun in a screw-like line, the Earth moving along always with the Sun. And if we view the line from above, we get a projection of the line, and the projection shows a lemniscate."
"Now, all this will make it clear that we can certainly speak of a daily motion of the Earth around her axis, but by no means of a yearly motion of the Earth around the Sun. For the Earth follows the Sun, describing the same path."
"Various other facts show that we have no right to speak of such a revolution. That line which should be apparent to us, and which would correspond to the progressive motion of the Earth in her relation to the Sun, is not to be found [in scientific calculations or theory]."
"It is in a spiral, screw-like path that the Earth follows the Sun, boring her way, as it were, into cosmic space."
"I have already indicated, however, that there is another movement which manifests in the phenomena of the Precession of the Equinoxes—the movement of the point of sunrise at the Spring-equinox through the Zodiac, once in 25,920 years. When the vernal equinox has come back again to the same place, the alterations that will have taken place in the whole human race are such that the human form will be quite dissimilar to what it is now."
"...Man, as he now is, built up in accordance with the forces of the periphery and of inner movement, with the forces too of the organs and of the metabolic system, is complete and finished in his dependence on the forces from without; and now he is able, with his complete and finished organization, to sever himself from this connection."
Lecture III
"If we thus seek in the world outside what we experience inwardly, we come indeed to the feeling that we are not
"The Moon however is to be referred to as quite another world, which is, as it were, inserted into ours, and which indicates the breathing process of our Universe, as the Sun indicates the interpenetration of our Universe by the [Cosmic] Ether."
"For one must be quite clear that Sun matter, and any other matter, Earth matter for instance, can under no circumstances be brought into a simple relationship; because the matter of the Sun is, in comparison with the matter of the Earth, something absorbing and sucking, while the latter exerts pressure. The motions which express themselves in nutation are motions proceeding from the astral world, and not from anything that can be found in Newton's principles."
Lecture IV
"This, however, obliges us to conclude that we cannot speak of a revolution in an elliptical path of the Earth around the Sun, for if the attraction be mutual, we cannot have a one-sided motion of the Earth around the Sun, but both must revolve round a neutral point. In other words, this revolution cannot take place in a manner that would allow us to look on the Sun's center as the pivot, but the pivot must be a neutral point situated between the center of the Sun and the center of the Earth [the barycenter of the solar system]."
"And in this we have to do not only with an aggregation (in the Sun) of this absorbent ether in the outer Universe, but also with the fact that this ether is distributed far and wide, everywhere to be found, coexisting with the force of pressure, the absorbent force. We ourselves carry this force of suction in our own etheric bodies."
"One must learn to regard the present conception of the world as an absolute delusion."
Lecture IV
"The fundamental nature and construction of the Universe cannot be conceived in its reality without continual reference to Man. Again and again, we must try to find in the Universe outside, what exists in one way or another in Man."
"I have already often drawn your attention to this correspondence between Man and the world in which he evolves. I have pointed to the fact that Man, in his rhythm of breathing—18 per minute—manifests something that is in remarkable accord with other processes of the Universe. We make 18 respirations per minute, which gives when calculated for the day, 25,920 respirations. And we arrive at the same number when we calculate how many times the sun rises at a normal life term of 72 years. That also gives about 25,920 days; so that something may be said to exhale our astral body and on falling asleep and inhale them again upon waking—always in conformity with the same number rhythm."
"Take the 18 respirations per minute, making 1,080 per hour and in 24 hours 25,920 respirations; that is, we must multiply: 18 X 60 X 24 in order to arrive at 25,920."
"Thus, when we multiply 72 years by 365, and consider the human span of life as one day, we have the human life as one day of the Macrocosm. Man is breathed out, as it were, from the Macrocosm; his life is one day in the macrocosmic year."
"...This revolution, this circle described by the Precession of the Equinoxes, indicating the macrocosmic year, as already known to the Egyptians thousands of years ago (for they looked upon this period of 72 years as very important), this apparent revolution of the Vernal point is connected with the life and death of Man in the Universe—with the life and death, that is, of the Macrocosm."
Lecture III
"If we thus seek in the world outside what we experience inwardly, we come indeed to the feeling that we are not
"The Moon however is to be referred to as quite another world, which is, as it were, inserted into ours, and which indicates the breathing process of our Universe, as the Sun indicates the interpenetration of our Universe by the [Cosmic] Ether."
"For one must be quite clear that Sun matter, and any other matter, Earth matter for instance, can under no circumstances be brought into a simple relationship; because the matter of the Sun is, in comparison with the matter of the Earth, something absorbing and sucking, while the latter exerts pressure. The motions which express themselves in nutation are motions proceeding from the astral world, and not from anything that can be found in Newton's principles."
Lecture IV
"This, however, obliges us to conclude that we cannot speak of a revolution in an elliptical path of the Earth around the Sun, for if the attraction be mutual, we cannot have a one-sided motion of the Earth around the Sun, but both must revolve round a neutral point. In other words, this revolution cannot take place in a manner that would allow us to look on the Sun's center as the pivot, but the pivot must be a neutral point situated between the center of the Sun and the center of the Earth [the barycenter of the solar system]."
"And in this we have to do not only with an aggregation (in the Sun) of this absorbent ether in the outer Universe, but also with the fact that this ether is distributed far and wide, everywhere to be found, coexisting with the force of pressure, the absorbent force. We ourselves carry this force of suction in our own etheric bodies."
"One must learn to regard the present conception of the world as an absolute delusion."
Lecture IV
"The fundamental nature and construction of the Universe cannot be conceived in its reality without continual reference to Man. Again and again, we must try to find in the Universe outside, what exists in one way or another in Man."
"I have already often drawn your attention to this correspondence between Man and the world in which he evolves. I have pointed to the fact that Man, in his rhythm of breathing—18 per minute—manifests something that is in remarkable accord with other processes of the Universe. We make 18 respirations per minute, which gives when calculated for the day, 25,920 respirations. And we arrive at the same number when we calculate how many times the sun rises at a normal life term of 72 years. That also gives about 25,920 days; so that something may be said to exhale our astral body and on falling asleep and inhale them again upon waking—always in conformity with the same number rhythm."
"Take the 18 respirations per minute, making 1,080 per hour and in 24 hours 25,920 respirations; that is, we must multiply: 18 X 60 X 24 in order to arrive at 25,920."
"Thus, when we multiply 72 years by 365, and consider the human span of life as one day, we have the human life as one day of the Macrocosm. Man is breathed out, as it were, from the Macrocosm; his life is one day in the macrocosmic year."
"...This revolution, this circle described by the Precession of the Equinoxes, indicating the macrocosmic year, as already known to the Egyptians thousands of years ago (for they looked upon this period of 72 years as very important), this apparent revolution of the Vernal point is connected with the life and death of Man in the Universe—with the life and death, that is, of the Macrocosm."
"We have, thus, three worlds interpenetrating one another, inter-related; but we must not attempt simply to combine these worlds from the point of view of causality. Three worlds, a three-fold world, as Man is a three-fold being; one, the world of sense surrounding us, the world we perceive; a second world whose presence is indicated to us by the motions of the Moon; and a third which makes itself known to us by the motion of the equinoctial point, or we might say, by the path of the Sun. This third world indeed remains about as unknown to us as the world of our own willpower is unknown to our ordinary consciousness."
"This has been interpreted as demonstrating that the Sun stands still, and the Earth revolves round it. In reality, it is not so; the Earth moves along behind the Sun. The observer sees the Sun to the right when the latter has arrived at one point of the spiral path, while the Earth is here. Next, he sees the Sun to the left, then again right, then left, and so on. All this gives the observer, who judges by outward appearances and loses sight of his own movement, the impression that the Earth revolves round the Sun."
"From this you will realize how great a possibility of deception arises when one judges by exterior appearances; for here indeed a relativity of motion exists. We can really affirm that those who now calculate the apparent motion of the Sun do not perceive their own motion and omit to take into consideration the relation between the Sun and the Earth."
"I should like you to try to form a true idea of what I have said about course or motion in a screw-like line, because one can visualize, in a model such as this, the fact of the Earth following in the wake of the Sun; and then we shall be able to go on to what I should like us to attain tomorrow, namely a true understanding of the facts before us."
"But I will show you first how to gain a conception of the true relation of the Earth to the Sun—that the Earth actually follows the Sun in its path—by searching for the one thing that will show us this relationship, namely certain processes in the human organism connected with the representative of the Sun in man—the human heart. For it is by taking our start from the knowledge of Man that we must seek to attain to a knowledge of the Universe."
"We only learn the significance of certain connections which we read from the stars, when we understand the corresponding processes in our organism; for what lies within our skin is no other than a reflection of the organism of the outer world."
"Look at the principal course of the blood-vessels in the human organism. Seen from above it is like a looped line. Instead of drawing it, we should follow the hieroglyphs inscribed in our own selves; for then we would learn to understand the nature of the qualities in the Universe outside.
The heart does not work like a pump driving blood through the body, but that the heart is moved by the circulation, which is itself a living thing, and the circulation is in its turn conditioned by the organs. The heart, as can be followed in embryology, is really nothing more than a product of the blood's circulation."
"This has been interpreted as demonstrating that the Sun stands still, and the Earth revolves round it. In reality, it is not so; the Earth moves along behind the Sun. The observer sees the Sun to the right when the latter has arrived at one point of the spiral path, while the Earth is here. Next, he sees the Sun to the left, then again right, then left, and so on. All this gives the observer, who judges by outward appearances and loses sight of his own movement, the impression that the Earth revolves round the Sun."
"From this you will realize how great a possibility of deception arises when one judges by exterior appearances; for here indeed a relativity of motion exists. We can really affirm that those who now calculate the apparent motion of the Sun do not perceive their own motion and omit to take into consideration the relation between the Sun and the Earth."
"I should like you to try to form a true idea of what I have said about course or motion in a screw-like line, because one can visualize, in a model such as this, the fact of the Earth following in the wake of the Sun; and then we shall be able to go on to what I should like us to attain tomorrow, namely a true understanding of the facts before us."
"But I will show you first how to gain a conception of the true relation of the Earth to the Sun—that the Earth actually follows the Sun in its path—by searching for the one thing that will show us this relationship, namely certain processes in the human organism connected with the representative of the Sun in man—the human heart. For it is by taking our start from the knowledge of Man that we must seek to attain to a knowledge of the Universe."
"We only learn the significance of certain connections which we read from the stars, when we understand the corresponding processes in our organism; for what lies within our skin is no other than a reflection of the organism of the outer world."
"Look at the principal course of the blood-vessels in the human organism. Seen from above it is like a looped line. Instead of drawing it, we should follow the hieroglyphs inscribed in our own selves; for then we would learn to understand the nature of the qualities in the Universe outside.
The heart does not work like a pump driving blood through the body, but that the heart is moved by the circulation, which is itself a living thing, and the circulation is in its turn conditioned by the organs. The heart, as can be followed in embryology, is really nothing more than a product of the blood's circulation."
"Just as the movement of the heart is the product of the life-force of the circulation, so the Sun is no other than the product of the whole Planetary System. The Sun is the result, not the point of departure. The living co-operation of the solar system produces in the center a hollow, which reflects as a mirror. That is the Sun! I have often said that the physicist would be greatly astonished if he could travel to the Sun and find there nothing of what he now imagines, but simply a hollow space; nay, even a hollow space of suction which annihilates everything within it. A space indeed, that is less than hollow. A hollow space of such a nature is less than hollow space merely receives what is put into it, but the Sun is a hollow space of such a nature that anything brought to it is immediately absorbed and disappears. There, in the Sun, is not only nothing, but less than nothing. What shines to us in the light is the reflection of what first comes in from Cosmic space—just as the movement really within our self at all, but that with our real Ego we are in the Universe, poured out into the Universe. Instead of searching behind the external Universe for 'vibrations', the atomists should seek their own Ego behind the phenomena and then try to find out how their own Ego is placed into the outer Universe is, as it were, poured out into it. Just as with color, we should try to ascertain whether we feel we must plunge into it or whether we feel ourselves repelled by it, so, as regards the structure of our organism, we should feel how the three directions, above and below, forwards and backwards, right and left, differ concretely from one another; we should feel how differently we experience them inwardly, when we project ourselves into the Universe. When we are aware of ourselves as Man standing on the Earth, surrounded by the planets and fixed stars, we begin to feel ourselves as part of all these; it is not a matter merely of drawing three dimensions at right angles, but of thinking concretely about the Cosmos and penetrating into the concrete reality of the dimensions."
"We distinguish in some way what takes place in the four realms,—what is above and below the plane of the Zodiac (Willpower), and what is right and left of the plane (Feeling); or again, we can consider what lies on this or on the other side of the plane (Thinking). We feel that something is connected with this differentiation, something of cosmic happening, namely, that which manifests in recapitulation, as we have it for instance in what we designate as the "course of the year."
"Man was at one time, as regards his inner conditions, bound to the outer course of the Universe, but he has broken away from it. Civilized Man today has almost entirely broken away from the course of outer Nature."
"And again, when we consider how the Sun moves—whether apparently or in reality, does not matter—advancing a little each year in what we call the Precession of the Equinoxes, when we consider the number of years it takes the Sun to make this journey round the whole Zodiac, once more we get 25,920 years—the Platonic Year."
"...We can in actual reality observe the 'breathing' of the Macrocosm. We only need to notice the path of the Moon in 18 years or, in other words, the Nutation of the Earth's axis [Chandler wobble]. The Earth dances, and she dances in such a manner as to describe a cone, a double cone, in 18 years and this dancing is a reflection of the macrocosmic breathing. This takes place just as many times in the macrocosmic year as the 18 human respirations during the microcosmic day of 24 hours. So, we really have one macrocosmic respiration per minute in this Nutation movement. In other words, we look into this breathing of the Macrocosm through this Nutation movement of the Moon, and we have before us what corresponds to respiration in man."
"We have therefore not only to consider a world which is spread out before us, but another world which projects into, and permeates our own."
"We distinguish in some way what takes place in the four realms,—what is above and below the plane of the Zodiac (Willpower), and what is right and left of the plane (Feeling); or again, we can consider what lies on this or on the other side of the plane (Thinking). We feel that something is connected with this differentiation, something of cosmic happening, namely, that which manifests in recapitulation, as we have it for instance in what we designate as the "course of the year."
"Man was at one time, as regards his inner conditions, bound to the outer course of the Universe, but he has broken away from it. Civilized Man today has almost entirely broken away from the course of outer Nature."
"And again, when we consider how the Sun moves—whether apparently or in reality, does not matter—advancing a little each year in what we call the Precession of the Equinoxes, when we consider the number of years it takes the Sun to make this journey round the whole Zodiac, once more we get 25,920 years—the Platonic Year."
"...We can in actual reality observe the 'breathing' of the Macrocosm. We only need to notice the path of the Moon in 18 years or, in other words, the Nutation of the Earth's axis [Chandler wobble]. The Earth dances, and she dances in such a manner as to describe a cone, a double cone, in 18 years and this dancing is a reflection of the macrocosmic breathing. This takes place just as many times in the macrocosmic year as the 18 human respirations during the microcosmic day of 24 hours. So, we really have one macrocosmic respiration per minute in this Nutation movement. In other words, we look into this breathing of the Macrocosm through this Nutation movement of the Moon, and we have before us what corresponds to respiration in man."
"We have therefore not only to consider a world which is spread out before us, but another world which projects into, and permeates our own."
"Just as we have before us a second part of the human organism, when observing the breathing process, namely the rhythmic man, as opposed to the perceptive or head man, so we have in what appears as the yearly Moon motion, or rather the 18-year motion of the Moon [node], the identity between one year and one human respiration; we have this second world interpenetrating our own."
"The Sun is not a ball of gas; but in that place where the Sun is, there is something less than empty space—a sucking, absorbing body, in fact, while all around it is that which exerts pressure. Consequently, in that which comes to us from the Sun we have not to do with anything constituting a product of combustion in the Sun; but all that has been transmitted to the Sun from the Universe is raged back."
"Where the Sun is, is emptier than empty space. This can be said of all parts of the Universe where we find Ether."
"In the same way, not only does matter become empty space, but it becomes negative, less than nothing—emptier than emptiness: it assumes a 'sucking' nature. Ether is sucking, absorbing. Matter presses. Ether absorbs. The Sun is an absorbing, sucking ball, and wherever Ether is present we have this absorbent force."
"Here we step over into the other side, the other aspect of three-dimensional space—we pass from pressure to suction. That which immediately surrounds us in this world, that of which we are constituted as physical man and etheric man, is both pressing and sucking or absorbing. We are a combination of both, whereas the Sun possesses the power of suction only, being nothing but ether, nothing but suction. It is the undulating wave of pressure and suction, ponderable matter and ether, that forms in its alternation a living organization. And the living organism continually breathes in the astral; the breathing expresses itself through the Moon motion. And here we begin to divine a second member or principle of the world's construction; the one member—pressure and suction, physical and etheric; the other, the second—astral. The astral is neither physical nor etheric but is continually inhaled and exhaled; and the nutation demonstrates this process."
"Briefly, the facts are that if we notice the path of a fixed star and notice the point where the Sun stands over it, we find that at the end of 72 years the star occupies the same position on the 30th of December, while the Sun only reaches that point again on the 31st December. The Sun has lost a day. After a lapse of 25,920 years, this loss is so great that the Sun has described a complete revolution [around the zodiac] and once again is back upon the place we noted. We see therefore that in 72 years the Sun is one day behind the fixed stars. Now these 72 years are approximately the normal life period of Man, and they are composed of 25,920 days."
"Thus, when we multiply 72 years by 365, and consider the human span of life as one day, we have the human life as one day of the Macrocosm. Man is breathed out, as it were, from the Macrocosm; his life is one day in the macrocosmic year."
"...This revolution, this circle described by the Precession of the Equinoxes, indicating the macrocosmic year, as already known to the Egyptians thousands of years ago (for they looked upon this period of 72 years as very important), this apparent revolution of the Vernal point is connected with the life and death of Man in the Universe—with the life and death, that is, of the Macrocosm."
"The Sun is not a ball of gas; but in that place where the Sun is, there is something less than empty space—a sucking, absorbing body, in fact, while all around it is that which exerts pressure. Consequently, in that which comes to us from the Sun we have not to do with anything constituting a product of combustion in the Sun; but all that has been transmitted to the Sun from the Universe is raged back."
"Where the Sun is, is emptier than empty space. This can be said of all parts of the Universe where we find Ether."
"In the same way, not only does matter become empty space, but it becomes negative, less than nothing—emptier than emptiness: it assumes a 'sucking' nature. Ether is sucking, absorbing. Matter presses. Ether absorbs. The Sun is an absorbing, sucking ball, and wherever Ether is present we have this absorbent force."
"Here we step over into the other side, the other aspect of three-dimensional space—we pass from pressure to suction. That which immediately surrounds us in this world, that of which we are constituted as physical man and etheric man, is both pressing and sucking or absorbing. We are a combination of both, whereas the Sun possesses the power of suction only, being nothing but ether, nothing but suction. It is the undulating wave of pressure and suction, ponderable matter and ether, that forms in its alternation a living organization. And the living organism continually breathes in the astral; the breathing expresses itself through the Moon motion. And here we begin to divine a second member or principle of the world's construction; the one member—pressure and suction, physical and etheric; the other, the second—astral. The astral is neither physical nor etheric but is continually inhaled and exhaled; and the nutation demonstrates this process."
"Briefly, the facts are that if we notice the path of a fixed star and notice the point where the Sun stands over it, we find that at the end of 72 years the star occupies the same position on the 30th of December, while the Sun only reaches that point again on the 31st December. The Sun has lost a day. After a lapse of 25,920 years, this loss is so great that the Sun has described a complete revolution [around the zodiac] and once again is back upon the place we noted. We see therefore that in 72 years the Sun is one day behind the fixed stars. Now these 72 years are approximately the normal life period of Man, and they are composed of 25,920 days."
"Thus, when we multiply 72 years by 365, and consider the human span of life as one day, we have the human life as one day of the Macrocosm. Man is breathed out, as it were, from the Macrocosm; his life is one day in the macrocosmic year."
"...This revolution, this circle described by the Precession of the Equinoxes, indicating the macrocosmic year, as already known to the Egyptians thousands of years ago (for they looked upon this period of 72 years as very important), this apparent revolution of the Vernal point is connected with the life and death of Man in the Universe—with the life and death, that is, of the Macrocosm."
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"We have, thus, three worlds interpenetrating one another, inter-related; but we must not attempt simply to combine these worlds from the point of view of causality. Three worlds, a three-fold world, as Man is a three-fold being; one, the world of sense surrounding us, the world we perceive; a second world whose presence is indicated to us by the motions of the Moon; and a third which makes itself known to us by the motion of the equinoctial point, or we might say, by the path of the Sun. This third world indeed remains about as unknown to us as the world of our own willpower is unknown to our ordinary consciousness."
Zodiac - Complete form
World of the Planets - Internal Motions
World of the Elements - Activity of the Organs
Earth - Metabolism
"And now consider, if we understand the form of Man in all its nature and conditions, and find the possibility of tracing it back to the Zodiac—that is, to the world of fixed stars—then and then only are we able to form, from Man, an idea of all that is visible to us in surrounding space; for it cannot be investigated by mechanical or mathematical means, but only through a knowledge of the complete form of Man. Neither are planetary motions to be examined merely by means of a telescope. With a telescope one finds their positions—setting it first to one star and then to the other, finding the angle, and in this way discovering the positions. What is actually present in the processes of the Planet-World is something that is formed from within outwards. It is by a study of the activities in the saps and juices in Man that we shall learn to understand the planetary motions. Similarly, if we comprehend our own organic activities we shall also understand what goes on in the Elemental world; and when we are able to understand what happens in Man in the moment when earthly substance is introduced into his metabolic system, we shall possess the key to the Earth activities and be able to separate them spatially from all extra-earthly activities."
Zodiac - Complete form
World of the Planets - Internal Motions
World of the Elements - Activity of the Organs
Earth - Metabolism
"And now consider, if we understand the form of Man in all its nature and conditions, and find the possibility of tracing it back to the Zodiac—that is, to the world of fixed stars—then and then only are we able to form, from Man, an idea of all that is visible to us in surrounding space; for it cannot be investigated by mechanical or mathematical means, but only through a knowledge of the complete form of Man. Neither are planetary motions to be examined merely by means of a telescope. With a telescope one finds their positions—setting it first to one star and then to the other, finding the angle, and in this way discovering the positions. What is actually present in the processes of the Planet-World is something that is formed from within outwards. It is by a study of the activities in the saps and juices in Man that we shall learn to understand the planetary motions. Similarly, if we comprehend our own organic activities we shall also understand what goes on in the Elemental world; and when we are able to understand what happens in Man in the moment when earthly substance is introduced into his metabolic system, we shall possess the key to the Earth activities and be able to separate them spatially from all extra-earthly activities."
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GA 201. Man — Hieroglyph of the Universe (1972) - Rudolf Steiner Archive
Rudolf Steiner Archive: An electronic Library and Archive site for the over 6000 collected works of the Austrian philosopher and founder of Anthroposophy, Rudolf Steiner
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Subnature and supernature in of the physiology of the plant and man - The real Basics of nutrition | Ehrenfried Pfeiffer
https://web.archive.org/web/19991118061045/http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Institout/EPfeiffer_Aethertechnik.htm#Unternatur
"It was my endeavor when I was a young person in the year 1919 came here to Dornach, 1920, 1921, here as a monastery and apprentice, as they say, did all the work, it was my endeavor, at that time, a very specific thought, a very specific questionto Rudolf Steiner. The thought was this: If today's civilization is transformed by the Applications of energies, physical energies, the means electricity, magnetism and other energies - the Atomic energy had not yet been discovered - leading to this because the in lies in the nature of these energies, which only serve to decompose, to disintegrate can lead to disintegration, as is the case in the application of these energies, even in technology ultimately is that they can only lead to decay, that it would be necessary to channel an energy of life into the technology to now use this energy, which Lawfulness of structure, of life within itself naturally carries such thoughts into people, could trigger sensations and will impulses that we now, instead of technically destroying, disintegrating, bomb,that we now learned to equilibrate that we learned to build, synthesize, grow, develop.
That was the question I asked Rudolf Steiner whether there was a such energy that one then releases into the world from the Goetheanum could carry as the answer, as a building up, as a Counter-answer to the dismantling. Rudolf Steiner then pointed out that this energy in certain material implementations in human body could be studied. He pointed out that this energy is generally what we the ethereal Image forces, the etheric body, Heat ether, light ether and so on. I I am not referring to the courses and lectures, but to the direct answer to this problem. It was my thought that Question: whether not by a discovery and application of such energies it would be possible to establish a social technique and social order to create. Rudolf Steiner's answer was that he A few very simple experiments suggested, which I then carried out for him and he from whose course said he had the answer of the spiritual world through the experiments and the answer was: It is not yet time that this ethereal energy is made known and can be introduced. I was then obliged to to keep the whole area completely silent, and I am still today still according to Rudolf Steiner's instructions obligated. But I then asked: what are the conditions, that the spiritual world agrees that the customer of this new energy can be researched, known and possibly applied? Then Rudolf Steiner said - and this is the reason why I would like to present at least this part of the answer, also with the thought that perhaps another time this will no longer be can do -: A condition, so that these Energy is not abused, is that a social Order in the sense of the three-partition idea would have to take place, at least in a small area on Earth a consistent social order in the spirit of the spiritual be carried out. It would not be the spiritual world that give consent that these ethereal energies are only would be discovered unless that happened.
https://web.archive.org/web/19991118061045/http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Institout/EPfeiffer_Aethertechnik.htm#Unternatur
"It was my endeavor when I was a young person in the year 1919 came here to Dornach, 1920, 1921, here as a monastery and apprentice, as they say, did all the work, it was my endeavor, at that time, a very specific thought, a very specific questionto Rudolf Steiner. The thought was this: If today's civilization is transformed by the Applications of energies, physical energies, the means electricity, magnetism and other energies - the Atomic energy had not yet been discovered - leading to this because the in lies in the nature of these energies, which only serve to decompose, to disintegrate can lead to disintegration, as is the case in the application of these energies, even in technology ultimately is that they can only lead to decay, that it would be necessary to channel an energy of life into the technology to now use this energy, which Lawfulness of structure, of life within itself naturally carries such thoughts into people, could trigger sensations and will impulses that we now, instead of technically destroying, disintegrating, bomb,that we now learned to equilibrate that we learned to build, synthesize, grow, develop.
That was the question I asked Rudolf Steiner whether there was a such energy that one then releases into the world from the Goetheanum could carry as the answer, as a building up, as a Counter-answer to the dismantling. Rudolf Steiner then pointed out that this energy in certain material implementations in human body could be studied. He pointed out that this energy is generally what we the ethereal Image forces, the etheric body, Heat ether, light ether and so on. I I am not referring to the courses and lectures, but to the direct answer to this problem. It was my thought that Question: whether not by a discovery and application of such energies it would be possible to establish a social technique and social order to create. Rudolf Steiner's answer was that he A few very simple experiments suggested, which I then carried out for him and he from whose course said he had the answer of the spiritual world through the experiments and the answer was: It is not yet time that this ethereal energy is made known and can be introduced. I was then obliged to to keep the whole area completely silent, and I am still today still according to Rudolf Steiner's instructions obligated. But I then asked: what are the conditions, that the spiritual world agrees that the customer of this new energy can be researched, known and possibly applied? Then Rudolf Steiner said - and this is the reason why I would like to present at least this part of the answer, also with the thought that perhaps another time this will no longer be can do -: A condition, so that these Energy is not abused, is that a social Order in the sense of the three-partition idea would have to take place, at least in a small area on Earth a consistent social order in the spirit of the spiritual be carried out. It would not be the spiritual world that give consent that these ethereal energies are only would be discovered unless that happened.
The second condition, said Rudolf Steiner, is that certain spiritual leaders on earth can incarnate and then lead humanity to take over, but that these leaders today have no Body, because today's intellectual educational system would not make it possible to to reveal such a body. That there is no possibility would be to reveal himself and that this would be expected is that these spiritual leaders are likely to be in this century cannot find a body at all, it unless Waldorf school education has become general would be. Only when such education leads to that certain spiritual leaders can incarnate, which then take the lead, and if a social There is order by which a guarantee is provided against abuse,then actually one could address this problem continue working. This, of course, meant that the whole future initially sealed."
NOTE: [I just scanned this book but images were very low quality but is still legible. Uploading to the Archive section in Private Chat but will rescan again soon.]
Ehrenfried E. Pfeiffer, Fragments of a biography
"(...) The method of science, in a materialistic sense, is based on analysis splitting apart (today atom splitting and fusion etc.), disintegration, separation, dissecting and all the procedures which have to destroy and take apart, to work on the corpse rather than to grow, to develop, to synthesize. That the human mind was captured by these methods of braking apart: in that I saw the source of our present situation. My question therefore was: is it possible to find another force or energy in nature, which does not have in itself the ductus of atomizing and analysis but builds up, synthesizes. Would we discover that force constructive, which makes things alive and grow, develop adequate building up methods of investigation, possibly use this force for another type of technic, applied to drive machines, than because of the inner nature of this force or energy we might be able to create another technology, social structure, constructive thinking of man rather than destructive thinking. This force must have the impulse of life, of organization within itself as the so-called physical energies have the splitting, separating trend within themselves. My question to R. St. October 1920 and spring 1921 therefore was:does such a force or source of energy exist? Can it be demonstrated? Could an altruistic technic be build upon it?
When these questions formed themselves in my mind I met in Günther Wachsmuth a life long friend who pondered about exactly the same problems.
Some discussion with R. St were carried out individually, often we both together had with R. St.
My questions were answered as follows:
Yes, such a force exists, but is not yet discovered. It is what is generally known the ether (not the physical ether) but the force which makes things grow, lives for instance in the seed as sperm power. Before you can work with this force you must demonstrate its presence. As we have reagents in chemistry, so you must find a reagent upon the ethereal force. It is also called formative etheric force because it is the force which creates the form, shape, pattern of a living thing, growth. You might try crystallization processes to which organic substrata are added. (This has been done and the results described elsewhere, known today as the method of sensitive crystallization). It is possible then to develop machines, which react upon and are driven by this force. R. St.than outlined the principles of the application of this force as source of a new energy. In the presence of Günther Wachsmuth at some other time he outlined the principle of the four etheric formative forces, light ether, chemical ether, life ether and warmth ether (somewhat different than in the so-called warmth and light course before Waldorf teachers) and pointed to a book by Rama Prashad, Nature Finer Forces, which described some of it.
NOTE: [I just scanned this book but images were very low quality but is still legible. Uploading to the Archive section in Private Chat but will rescan again soon.]
Ehrenfried E. Pfeiffer, Fragments of a biography
"(...) The method of science, in a materialistic sense, is based on analysis splitting apart (today atom splitting and fusion etc.), disintegration, separation, dissecting and all the procedures which have to destroy and take apart, to work on the corpse rather than to grow, to develop, to synthesize. That the human mind was captured by these methods of braking apart: in that I saw the source of our present situation. My question therefore was: is it possible to find another force or energy in nature, which does not have in itself the ductus of atomizing and analysis but builds up, synthesizes. Would we discover that force constructive, which makes things alive and grow, develop adequate building up methods of investigation, possibly use this force for another type of technic, applied to drive machines, than because of the inner nature of this force or energy we might be able to create another technology, social structure, constructive thinking of man rather than destructive thinking. This force must have the impulse of life, of organization within itself as the so-called physical energies have the splitting, separating trend within themselves. My question to R. St. October 1920 and spring 1921 therefore was:does such a force or source of energy exist? Can it be demonstrated? Could an altruistic technic be build upon it?
When these questions formed themselves in my mind I met in Günther Wachsmuth a life long friend who pondered about exactly the same problems.
Some discussion with R. St were carried out individually, often we both together had with R. St.
My questions were answered as follows:
Yes, such a force exists, but is not yet discovered. It is what is generally known the ether (not the physical ether) but the force which makes things grow, lives for instance in the seed as sperm power. Before you can work with this force you must demonstrate its presence. As we have reagents in chemistry, so you must find a reagent upon the ethereal force. It is also called formative etheric force because it is the force which creates the form, shape, pattern of a living thing, growth. You might try crystallization processes to which organic substrata are added. (This has been done and the results described elsewhere, known today as the method of sensitive crystallization). It is possible then to develop machines, which react upon and are driven by this force. R. St.than outlined the principles of the application of this force as source of a new energy. In the presence of Günther Wachsmuth at some other time he outlined the principle of the four etheric formative forces, light ether, chemical ether, life ether and warmth ether (somewhat different than in the so-called warmth and light course before Waldorf teachers) and pointed to a book by Rama Prashad, Nature Finer Forces, which described some of it.
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Waxism in turn wrote his book on the Etheric Formative Forces. To me the task fell to start experiments. In this, the cooperation between us, the seed for the research institute at Goetheanum was laid. I had to perform certain experiments which do not feel at liberty to describe for R. St. The result of these experiments where reported whereupon R. St. said with utmost ernestness: the outcome of the experiment points to another force not the etheric one but an astral one (ic forces which live in sensitive matter, nerve, brain). That the experiment did turn out this way is the answer of the spiritual world to him and it means that the time is not yet ready to make use of the etheric force. I asked when will the time be ready. Answer: when the social conditions are such that no misuse of this force can be done for selfish purposes,that would only be the case if the threefold commonwealth order would be practice at least over a few territories on earth. Until this time experiments in the direction of using the etheric forces would not be successful or should not be done.
Since we live today in a world which is farer away than ever from the solution of the social problem, when selfishness and personal advantage, profit and national conflicts because of them have the upper hand, since especially the anthroposophical society has never put the solution of the social problem in front of all its aim and not contributed that which was demanded by R. St. to be done, I see no other way but to bury the instructions with regard to the use of the etheric force deep down in my chest, probably to take it with me to grave, with the hope that other times will come, other circumstances, other ages and lives, where the time then will be ready.My conscience is deeply moved but I have to obey higher reason for this means that for the time being the world must go on with the use of energies which have the power death and destruction in their essence and it is only to be hoped that the world learns the hard way, by endless suffering that one day it will awake to accept the mission of life, of living together in peace, of mutual acceptance and coordination.
Everything else we developed in anthroposophical natural science, experimenting, had to remain with the first step, the demonstration of the presence and existence of formative forces. Only in the use of the biodynamic method of soil improvement could we go a step farther. How this developed is described elsewhere"
Since we live today in a world which is farer away than ever from the solution of the social problem, when selfishness and personal advantage, profit and national conflicts because of them have the upper hand, since especially the anthroposophical society has never put the solution of the social problem in front of all its aim and not contributed that which was demanded by R. St. to be done, I see no other way but to bury the instructions with regard to the use of the etheric force deep down in my chest, probably to take it with me to grave, with the hope that other times will come, other circumstances, other ages and lives, where the time then will be ready.My conscience is deeply moved but I have to obey higher reason for this means that for the time being the world must go on with the use of energies which have the power death and destruction in their essence and it is only to be hoped that the world learns the hard way, by endless suffering that one day it will awake to accept the mission of life, of living together in peace, of mutual acceptance and coordination.
Everything else we developed in anthroposophical natural science, experimenting, had to remain with the first step, the demonstration of the presence and existence of formative forces. Only in the use of the biodynamic method of soil improvement could we go a step farther. How this developed is described elsewhere"
Alla Selawry , Ehrenfried Pfeiffer - Pioneer of spiritual Research and practice
"When I came to Dornach as a young person in 1920 and when the apprentice did all the work, I was occupied with a very specific question ...which I R. Steiner provided. The thought was: If in the nature of the physical energies (electricity, magnetism and the later nuclear energy) ultimately, there is a Disintegration, a decomposition and disintegration of today's to lead civilization - then it would be necessary to Energy of life to discover and into technology to introduce the laws of structure in carries itself. This could be in man, its nature according to such thoughts, sensations and will impulses that teach him to grow, to build, to synthesize and establish equilibria. - Is there such a Energy? Dr. Steiner replied, that this energy in the etheric body of man, in the ethereal visual forces, the heat and Light ether, the chemical ether and the life ether is effective. He pointed out that this energy at certain Material implementations of the human body are studied could. I am not referring to the courses and lectures but to the direct answer to this problem. It was my Thought whether it would be possible to detect and apply such ethereal energies would be possible, a building to create technology and social order and to create this from the Goetheanum to carry into the world. In response, Dr. Steiner suggested some quite simple experiments, which I then conducted for him. From the course of which he realized that it was not yet time to make known and introduce this ethereal energy. I was obliged to remain absolutely silent about it. - Then I asked about the conditions that allow this new energy to discover and work with it. Then R. Steiner said: A Condition so that this energy is not abused is a consistent social order in the sense of Threefolding-idea, at least in a small area on Earth. A second Condition is a general spread of the Waldorf education, which gives the child a spiritual Development made possible.
Physiological basis of this positive development forms a healthy diet made from bio-dynamic agriculture.2 - Dr. Steiner pointed out to me that first of all the Nutrition problem would have to be solved before it becomes possible for humans, mentally on to influence ethereal impulses. Through a healthy, in Balance of nutrition is used in humans ethereal forces triggered for the spiritual - Moral ideals, as Dr. Steiner explains, will are promoted by triggering light forces in the Heat-air organism, the triggering of tonal forces of the chemical ether in the liquid organism, which Triggering life germs in the solid organism.
Today's degenerate diet allows this Lack of strength. It favours theoretical ideas which catching a cold on the heat organism, paralyzing on the Light and air organism, killing the sound, have an extinguishing effect on life.
Above all, it is important to spiritualize substance within and spiritual substance as new, invigorating energy to the cosmos to give back.
These are the tasks, who are provided. On the one hand, the goal: the ethereal To prepare energy that prevents the disaster in technology could. On the other hand, the goal of each individual person, through work on one's own interior, through a spiritualization of matter, through the forces of the heart, through the etherification of blood to transform, to spiritualize one's physical body; matter to overcome the undernature. That is possible. It is possible, on the path of knowledge not only sporadically, but to walk continuously and very diligently.
"When I came to Dornach as a young person in 1920 and when the apprentice did all the work, I was occupied with a very specific question ...which I R. Steiner provided. The thought was: If in the nature of the physical energies (electricity, magnetism and the later nuclear energy) ultimately, there is a Disintegration, a decomposition and disintegration of today's to lead civilization - then it would be necessary to Energy of life to discover and into technology to introduce the laws of structure in carries itself. This could be in man, its nature according to such thoughts, sensations and will impulses that teach him to grow, to build, to synthesize and establish equilibria. - Is there such a Energy? Dr. Steiner replied, that this energy in the etheric body of man, in the ethereal visual forces, the heat and Light ether, the chemical ether and the life ether is effective. He pointed out that this energy at certain Material implementations of the human body are studied could. I am not referring to the courses and lectures but to the direct answer to this problem. It was my Thought whether it would be possible to detect and apply such ethereal energies would be possible, a building to create technology and social order and to create this from the Goetheanum to carry into the world. In response, Dr. Steiner suggested some quite simple experiments, which I then conducted for him. From the course of which he realized that it was not yet time to make known and introduce this ethereal energy. I was obliged to remain absolutely silent about it. - Then I asked about the conditions that allow this new energy to discover and work with it. Then R. Steiner said: A Condition so that this energy is not abused is a consistent social order in the sense of Threefolding-idea, at least in a small area on Earth. A second Condition is a general spread of the Waldorf education, which gives the child a spiritual Development made possible.
Physiological basis of this positive development forms a healthy diet made from bio-dynamic agriculture.2 - Dr. Steiner pointed out to me that first of all the Nutrition problem would have to be solved before it becomes possible for humans, mentally on to influence ethereal impulses. Through a healthy, in Balance of nutrition is used in humans ethereal forces triggered for the spiritual - Moral ideals, as Dr. Steiner explains, will are promoted by triggering light forces in the Heat-air organism, the triggering of tonal forces of the chemical ether in the liquid organism, which Triggering life germs in the solid organism.
Today's degenerate diet allows this Lack of strength. It favours theoretical ideas which catching a cold on the heat organism, paralyzing on the Light and air organism, killing the sound, have an extinguishing effect on life.
Above all, it is important to spiritualize substance within and spiritual substance as new, invigorating energy to the cosmos to give back.
These are the tasks, who are provided. On the one hand, the goal: the ethereal To prepare energy that prevents the disaster in technology could. On the other hand, the goal of each individual person, through work on one's own interior, through a spiritualization of matter, through the forces of the heart, through the etherification of blood to transform, to spiritualize one's physical body; matter to overcome the undernature. That is possible. It is possible, on the path of knowledge not only sporadically, but to walk continuously and very diligently.
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At one of those discussions about this future Energy and etherification, said Dr. Steiner: "If you only on the beginning of the Gospel of John meditate would and the book 'How do you get Insights from higher worlds' study and heed would, you would be able to solve all these questions and to reawaken all anthroposophy from within." - Why? For the simple reason that in the beginning of the Gospel of John on the two primal creative forces are shown, the word that logos, which also defines the divine world order in matter creates from which one can understand and transform matter; and that light, which shone into the darkness, from which the conversion can be completed.
These are the tasks we are faced with. We have them until not fulfilled today. We cannot, in response to to create nuclear energy, the new ether energy, the new carries life-building and creation forces within itself. The is a great commitment that was made at the Goetheanum and us everyone who participates in this spiritual movement is burdened. A Commitment to at least seriously consider this goal.
Our task is to accelerate our development. The Humanity passes over us when we are unable to to research practical areas of life and advice in all areas from to give one's own practice of anthroposophy."
These are the tasks we are faced with. We have them until not fulfilled today. We cannot, in response to to create nuclear energy, the new ether energy, the new carries life-building and creation forces within itself. The is a great commitment that was made at the Goetheanum and us everyone who participates in this spiritual movement is burdened. A Commitment to at least seriously consider this goal.
Our task is to accelerate our development. The Humanity passes over us when we are unable to to research practical areas of life and advice in all areas from to give one's own practice of anthroposophy."
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