The Four Ethers From Ernst Marti By Andrew Linnell.
-
Upload
tyree-redman -
Category
Documents
-
view
228 -
download
0
Transcript of The Four Ethers From Ernst Marti By Andrew Linnell.
The Four Ethers
From Ernst Marti
By Andrew Linnell
Planetary Lifecycles
Fourth – Ego
Third – Astral
Second –Etheric
First -Physical
Beings at the Human Stage
Archai
Archangel
Angel
ManExusiaForm
DynamisMovement
KyriotetesWisdom
ThronesWill
•From Living Spirit to the lifeless•From formless life to the formed
Planetary Conditions = Solar “Incarnations”
Fire
Air
Water
Earth
Warmth
Light
Tone
Life
Element
Etheric
Air & Light FireAir
WaterEarth
WarmthLight
ToneLife
Element Etheric
Comparison Air Light
How Perceived Between things On things
Activity on things Connects Separates
Self activity Passive Raying
Borders Cares less about Creates
Space Passively fills Actively creates
Direction Chaos Structured, straight
Elasticity Compress, expand Brittle
Cohesiveness Inner Tension Outer Intensity
Forces Pressure to point Peripheral Suction
Water & Tone FireAir
WaterEarth
WarmthLight
ToneLife
Element Etheric
Comparison Water Tone
Consistency Continuous Discrete, intervals
Activity on things Joining into whole Separating, dividing
Cellular Fertilization Division
Crete Concrete Discrete
Soul Sympathy Antipathy
Structure Fluid Holds fast, bonds
Waves Passive, external Active, internal
Weight Heavy Buoyant
Entities Dissolves Harmonizes, orders
Grasping In the instance In the whole
Earth & Life FireAir
WaterEarth
WarmthLight
ToneLife
Element Etheric
Comparison Earth Life
How Perceived Solidity Inner mobility
Activity on things Impermeable Self-permeation
Occupying space Cannot share Assimilates
Asserting itself Outward direction Inner self-assertion
Surface Form from outer & related to material
Creates skin as expression of inner
Divide-ability Into parts Individual entities members of whole
Form Arises from forces outside itself
Whole gives form to itself
Creates Lifeless bodies Living bodies
Space and Dimensions• Old Saturn No space, no dimensions
– Remnant: Time. Warmth ether as birth of time, fire its dying away
• Old Sun Origin of space, one dimension– A 1-D entity cannot touch itself, e.g. line (from center to periphery)– Remnant: plant limb growth is linear, light & air (tension)
• Old Moon Two dimensions– A 2-D entity that can touch itself, e.g. circle– Remnant: leaf form – working of water & tone– Right & Left – ability to touch self
• Effect of water: growing together, folds form spinal cord• Effect of tone ether: separating, movement, prevents uniformity
• Earth Three dimensions– A 3-D entity – Man! x, y, & z; r/l, a/b, f/r; – 3 centers of Man: head, thorax, lumbar– Only Man has skin (others have fur, feathers, scales, plates) – inner express
Forces
• Centric: one point of origin, mathematical– Elements, physical, lifeless
• Universal: escape mathematics because of infinity, origin at periphery– Ethers, etheric, alive (and they dissolve form)– Lift substance from earthly to cosmic - dissolution
• Mutually interpenetrate• Universal forces are not the same as formative• Formative force NOT from periphery but from specific
locations: e.g. sun, moon, Cancer, …
Double Cross from Middle Ages
• Taught to Alexander• Man & Nature• Healing arts• Differentiating degrees• Over-extension led to
rejection by science• See elements through
secondary qualities – collaboration of two
Northcold
warmthSouth
Eastdry
WestMoist
earth
fire
water
air
Life ether
Warmth ether
Tone ether
Light ether
Double Cross from Middle Ages
Combinations• Warmth & Light
– Light: expanding, space– Warmth: ripening, time– = plant growth, size
• Light & Chemical/tone– Segmentation, structure
• Life & Warmth– Whole in time, age in life
• Warmth & Tone– Processes
• Light & Life– Building of form
organs
size
ageparts
Life ether
Warmth ether
Tone ether
Light ether
The ethers in their fourfold joint activity are the actual life forces
Etheric Body
• Consists of the four ethers• Is the life principle of all living beings• Life forces act generally within an etheric body• Four ethers act on: size, members, formation,
processes• Formative forces are superior to etheric
– Guide ethers to create a leaf, flower, plant, animal– Species specific forces
• All of this comprises the etheric body of an organism– Body of formative forces
U-Forces (Fallen Etheric)
• Forces of electricity, magnetism, and 3rd force• Opposites of the ethers• Not peripheral forces; rather centric• Ethers: from above – U-forces: from below– Cosmic – Earthly
• Foundation for World includes U-forces with elements and ethers
END
Remaining slides are from other sources
Fields
• Magnetic Field– Iron filings to make
visible
• Etheric Field– Water drops or
crystallization
Ahriman’s Incarnation
Super- and Sub-Nature
• Sub-Nature as “mirror” of Super-Nature– Light Electricity– Tone Magnetism– Life Nuclear
• Relationship of sub to super?– Light/Photon to Electron
• Astral World• Etheric World
– Life– Tone/Chemical (forming)– Light– Warmth
• Elements– Fire– Air– Water– Earth
• Fallen Ethers• Fallen Astral(?)
March 25, 2007 Slide 14
combine
Vulcan – 3rd depth
Venus – 2nd depth
Jupiter – Sub-Nature
7 Planetary Conditions
Saturn -Physical
Sun –Etheric
Moon – Astral
Earth – Ego
Fire
Air
Water
Earth
Jupiter – Manas,
Super-Nature
Venus – Buddhi
Vulcan – Atman
?
Warmth
Light
Tone
Life
Elements Etheric Hierarchy = 12
??
Planetary Influences
• Inner Planets: Venus, Mercury, Moon– Work through
atmosphere directly• Sun• Outer Planets: Mars,
Jupiter, Saturn– Work through earth
indirectly
Saturn
Jupiter
Mars
Moon
Mercury
Venus
Earth
Nou
rishm
ent
Repr
oduc
tive
CalciumLimestone
SilicaWarmth
Water
29.7
11.9
29.7
1.1
29.7
29.7
Need
Pere
nnia
lAn
nual
Diagrams 2-5
Planetary Influences• Above Earth: Venus, Mercury,
Moon• Beneath Earth: Mars, Jupiter,
Saturn• Nov & Dec what is beneath the
surface becomes effective for plant growth
• Then Jan.15 – Feb.15: strongest formative crystallization forces
• Seed must go through Chaos to be imprinted with a cosmic constellation
Saturn
Jupiter
Mars
Moon
Venus
Mercury
Earth surface
Dea
d W
arm
thLi
ving
War
mth
CalciumLimestone
Color influence on flower from root
Warmth
Water
Blue
Yellow
Red
1
0.67
0.25
Need
Pere
nnia
lPe
renn
ial
Annu
al
Sun: Green
Cosmic and Earthly ForcesEquisetum: • Draws the cosmic nature to itself• Permeates itself with the silicious nature
(silica)– 90% silicic acid
• Cosmic is present in great excess, yet in such a way that it does not go upward and reveal itself in the flower but betrays its presence in the growth of the lower parts
Potatoes:• Grow in silicious soil to keep cosmic used
for blossoming and stemming below the surface
Apple: draw the cosmic up for taste• Eating Jupiter (Plum is Saturn)
Earthly
Cosmic in single form,
e.g. beet
Cosmic in color
Sun
Earthly in ramified
roots
silic
a
limes
tone
Alchemy of BD: Sulphur
• Nitrogen, carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, & sulphur– People only recognize the last excrescence of nitrogen’s activities
• Sulphur in protein is the very element which acts as mediator between the Spiritual that is spread throughout the Universe and the physical. Along the paths of sulphur the Spiritual works into the physical domain of Nature
• Sulphur is the carrier of the Spiritual, hence the ancient name, “sulphur” is closely akin to the name “phosphorus”
• The name is due to the fact that in olden time they recognized in the out-spreading, sun-filled light, the Spiritual itself thus they named “light-bearers” these substances — like sulphur and phosphorus — which work light into matter
Alchemy of BD: Carbon
Carbon: The Philosopher’s Stone, the great plastician• Bearer of the creative formative processes in Nature• Bears the Cosmic Imaginations out of which all that is
formed in Nature must ultimately proceed• Man is not plant – excretes carbonic acid which is
sign man is destroying these forms – otherwise stiff• Ego lives via the sulphur in the carbon as it forms
itself and ever again dissolves the form• In the limestone form of the skeleton he has the solid
Earth within him – like a scaffolding
Alchemy of BD: Oxygen
Oxygen: Bearer of the ethereal into the physical body• With the help of sulphur, carries the influences of life
out of the universal ether into the physical• Oxygen must be killed in us or it would stun us,
benumb us – it is combined with carbon – breathing• Living oxygen within us and within the soil
Alchemy of BD: NitrogenNitrogen: Guides the life (oxygen) into the carbon-form, Astral • Mediates between the life and the spiritual essence which to begin with is in the
carbon-nature• The bridge between carbon and oxygen is built by nitrogen• The ethereal principle of life would flow away everywhere like a cloud, it would
take no account of the carbon-framework were it not for the nitrogen• The nitrogen has an immense power of attraction for the carbon-framework –
wherever the lines are traced and the paths mapped out in the carbon, thither the nitrogen carries the oxygen — thither the astral in the nitrogen drags the ethereal
• The nitrogen-man imitates to perfection whatever is there in the solid human framework, while on the other hand it flows perpetually into the element of life
• In man, nitrogen is so essential to the life of the soul – for the soul itself is the mediator between the Spirit and the mere principle of life
• A “nitrogen-man” actually exists like a ghost in the body – the nitrogen-man imitates to perfection whatever is there in the solid human framework
Breathing• Through it man receives into himself oxygen, the ethereal life • The internal nitrogen carries the oxygen everywhere — wherever there is carbon –
wherever there is something formed and figured – Thither the nitrogen carries the oxygen, so that it may fetch the carbon and get rid of it – Nitrogen as mediator: oxygen → to carbonic acid and then exhaled
• Around us is only a small proportion of oxygen, which is the bearer of life, and a far larger proportion of nitrogen—the bearer of the astral spirit
• Day & night we have great need of oxygen in our environment • Do we need nitrogen in the air we breathe? What ratio?
– It is precisely the nitrogen which has a spiritual relation to us• Plant has no soul within it but it could not flower if not touched by the astral
without it – the astral is everywhere with the nitrogen• In the air, the nitrogen is dead but in the soil it is alive – as it is nitrogen in our
senses, nitrogen is the bearer of sensation even of the mysterious sensitiveness which is poured out over the whole life of the Earth
Hydrogen
• The substance which is so near to the Spiritual on the one hand and to the substantial on the other, is hydrogen
• Hydrogen carries out again into the far spaces of the Universe all that is formed, and alive, and astral
• Hydrogen carries it upward and outward, till it becomes of such a nature that it can be received out of the Universe once more, as we described above
• It is hydrogen which dissolves everything away
Plant Principles• Carbon Principle: forms the scaffolding• Oxygen Principle: fills it with life• Nitrogen Principle: permeates it with inner life making it sentient• Sulphur Principle: “moistens” substance so it can take its leave of all
structure and definition• Hydrogen Principle: dissolves, returns to cosmos• All combine to make protein. Wherever carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen occur
— in leaf or flower, calyx or root — everywhere they are bound to other substances in one form or another
• They are dependent on other substances – they are not independent
• Hydrogen drives these fundamental substances of protein into the tiny seed-formation and makes them independent there
• Chaos in the seed must interact with chaos in the farthest circles of the Universe – then the new being arises
Principles in Animal and HumanDeep-seated Framework
Earthly Nature• Bony skeletal nature – limestone • Carbon seeks support in limestone’s
formative activities • Carbonaceous formative activity rays out
from the circulatory process into the calcium and silicon in man
• Kind of vision we must unfold when we look out over the surface of the Earth, covered as it is with plants and having beneath it the limestone and the silica
• We cannot look inside the human being; we must evolve the same knowledge by looking out over the Earth
Cosmic Formative• Silicious element• Carbon seeks support in silicon’s formative
activities • In Nature we behold the oxygen-nature
caught up by the nitrogen and carried down into the carbon-nature. That which is living in our environment — kindled to life in the oxygen — must be carried into the depths of the Earth, there to find support in the silica, working formatively in the calcium or limestone
• Limestone depends on an in-breathing of N fulfilled by legumes and papilionaceae which tend to fruit even before they flower, retaining N-nature near Earth
Legumes and Papilionaceae• Everything that belongs to nitrogen lives far more inclined to the Earth
than in the other plants, where it evolves at a greater distance from Earth • Observe their leaf color: not the ordinary green, but a darker shade • Observe the fruit: tends to be stunted• Observe the seeds: retain their germinating power only for a short time,
after which they lose it• Organized so as to bring to expression, most of all, what the plant-world
receives from the winter — not what it has from the summer• Tendency in these plants to wait for the winter
– Their growth is retarded when they find a sufficiency of what they need — i.e., of the nitrogen of the air, which they can carry downward
• In such ways as these we can look into the life and growth of all that goes on in and above the surface of the soil
Meditation
• Retain in ourselves a little more carbon dioxide than we do in the normal process of waking consciousness
• You grow into a conscious living experience of the nitrogen all around you – all becomes knowledge and perception —even that which is living in the nitrogen
• Nitrogen can inform you of what Mercury and Venus and the rest are doing – all kinds of secrets that prevail in farm and farmyard, we suddenly begin to know them
Balance in the Soil
Limestone• Cravings for• Active to obtain, absorb• Kernel of desire• Resistance to carbon
Silicon• Desires nothing for itself• Comes to rest in itself• Contrives to tear away what
must be torn away from limestone
Carbon• Once it could easily form as
long as it had water below• Now limestone below
disrupts carbon’s forming• It now allies with silica - clay
Nitrogen• Mediates: lime-clay-silicious• Acts like astral between ego
and etheric body
Silicon – Sodium
• Healthy plant life has an equilibrium of these two• Silicious substances:quartz (silicon + oxygen)
– Insoluble in water– Nearly 50% of earth’s surface is silica– Equisetum is 90% silica– Silicic acid for “pains” of the senses, medicines– If earth lacked silicon, then plants would have pyramid forms or look
like cacti – fleshy thick stems– Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn
• Sodium substances: potash, limestone– Creepers, twining stems, thin stems, useless spread flowers– Moon, Mercury, Venus
Nourishment – Reproduction
• Reproduction: Moon/Mercury/Venus, limestone– Can influence of M/M/V or M/J/S be restrained or aided?
• Sow seeds in or following rain just before full moon
• Foodstuffs for animal and humanity: Mars/Jupiter/Saturn, – Silicious nature opens plant-being to universe, awakens its “senses” to
M/J/S– Silica related to warmth– Saturn visible only for 14+ years, not seen for same period
• Moon period is 28 days, Jupiter is 12 years• Periods of Mars important for planting oak trees (Oak “belongs” to Mars)
– Forces “visible” in the bark and rind of trees and all perennials• Health value of fire depends on when the tree was planted• Nourishing value of plants diminishes as the cosmic rhythms are ignored
Earth as Organism
• Connection to cosmos– Receives from cosmos
• Rays it upward
– Sand, silica – life ether• Chemical influence of soil • Maybe at depth from surface
– Role of clay • Carries the cosmic upward
• Body of Earth: head down– Belly – digestion – plant growth – Limestone carries digestion below surface– Outer warmth drawn to inner warmth by limestone, gives it vitality
• Above: more oxygen, below: more carbonic acid. Why? Air permeated vitality when absorbed and drawn into the Earth
DeadWarmth
LivingWarmth
SunMercuryVenusMoon
SunMarsJupiterSaturn
Earth’s Surface
Limbs
Head
Diaphragm
Belly
• Mineral influenced by what works immediately above the surface but it emancipates itself to be exposed to cosmic– January 15 – February 15 minerals exposed to cosmic
• Formative forces, crystallization strongest 1/15 – 2/15• Longing by minerals to be crystal stronger the deeper one goes • Plant growth nearly ceases, but just before and just after strong plant growth