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.All that we include under the term “earth” is, really, these forces.Then the ego organisation stands in direct connection also with all that is comprised under the term “water” and is in a state of equilibrium; and it is moreover directly connected also with all that is of the nature of “air”, with all that is gaseous.You know how in physics one has to learn, in addition to ordinary mechanics, a hydro-mechanics and also an aero-mechanics, the reason being that the processes of equilibrium (in water) and the meteorological processes in the air have each their own peculiar character.Finally, the ego organisation is directly connected with a part of the all-pervading “warmth” through which we are continually moving as long as we live in the physical world.EGO ORGANISATION : EARTH : WATER:AIR : WARMTHI draw a line through the word “warmth”, because it is with a part of it only that the ego is connected.We wake up, and place ourselves with our ego organisation — place ourselves as spirit — into the world of earthly forces.Our connection with these forces is in reality not a physically mediated, but a magical connection, a magical connection however which can take effect only within a particular space — namely, within the boundaries of our organism.When you have begun to understand that this connection is not a physical, but a magical connection, then you have taken a good step forward.Now let us pass on to the astral body.The astral body is also connected with certain forces that work upon us when we are awake, and here too the connection is direct — not indirect, not merely through the ether body.Among these forces we have again a part of the force of “warmth”.(You must remember, throughout, that the warmth element works in two directions; part of it reacts on the physical body, and part on the etheric body.) Then, the astral body is directly connected also with the forces of “light”.You must know however that what Spiritual Science speaks of as forces of light is not identical with what modern physics understands by the term.We do not want here to enter into a discussion of theories, but let me suggest the following.You look out upon the world around you, and perceive it all lit up.What enables you to do this? Something gives you the capacity to perceive the world illumined in this way, and it is something in the ether.Light is, in fact, an ether force.Modern science speaks of light as of something that is present where we see things illumined.Spiritual Science speaks of light in another way.It calls “light” that which underlies other sense-perceptions too; it speaks, for example, of the light of perceptions of sound.Present-day physics, when it speaks of perceptions of sound, is in reality speaking merely of their external correlate — namely, the vibration of the air.The movements in the air are but the medium of the real sound or tone, which is something etheric; the vibrating that goes on in the etheric brings about the vibration of the air.Light lives also in the perceptions of smell.In short, all perceptions have as their basis a light of a kind that is much more all-pervading than the light that is spoken of in the physics of the present day.I admit, people are liable to grow confused when we speak of light in this way.For, although it was so spoken of in ancient spiritual knowledge and even as late as the 12th and 13th centuries, all understanding of it was then lost and people began to use other names for it, which are still less intelligible! This is what makes all the alchemical books written after the 12th century so very difficult to follow.What is important for you, however, at the moment is to know that this is what we mean by “light”.Now the astral body is connected with this light; that is to say, it has direct relation — not indirect through the etheric body — with all that underlies sense-perception on the earth.This is a most interesting fact.Outside lives the light in the ether, but we have also the etheric within us.The light works upon our ether body.When we wake up, we not only come into connection with the light that is within us; but, turning aside as it were from the light that is within us, we member ourselves into the light that streams through the external world.It is the same with the external “chemical forces” that are at work in the world around us.Into these too we member ourselves, directly.And this is very important, for it means that, while he is awake, man is membered into a kind of cosmic chemistry.Modern science knows the chemistry of the lifeless, but has very little understanding of organic chemical processes; it has no knowledge at all of the chemistry that is a universal world-chemistry.And this cosmic chemistry it is, of which we become part and member when we awake from sleep.Similarly, we become part and member of the all-pervading cosmic life, the “life ether” — again, directly.EGO ORGANISATION : EARTH : WATER:AIRASTRAL BODY : WARMTH:LIGHT:CHEMICAL FORCES:LIFE-ETHERAll that we have been describing — necessarily only in outline — has to be achieved, has to be brought to fulfilment, while the human being is gradually building up, first his second body, and then his third.He has to dive down into himself, and through very penetration of his own being, immerse himself at the same time in the earthly-cosmic forces, the earthly-cosmic active forces.Entering into himself, he must in so doing be able to lay hold of the world.In one domain, and in one only, modern science has still a clear perception of how things really are.In its study of the organisation of the eye, physics proceeds in a way that one could only wish might be followed in many domains.The eye is regarded, as you know, in physics as a contrivance, a mechanism, an instrument that works in accordance with the laws of physics.In order to come to a clear comprehension of the eye, the physicist makes drawings of it, in which he demonstrates the refraction of light through a lens, the formation of the objective picture, and so forth — the very same kind of drawings as he would make for a mechanical instrument.What the physicist is unable to do is to pass on then to the way in which the element of soul enters into this mechanical instrument.The whole thing is exceedingly interesting.The physicists have before them this complete picture of the eye.But there they come to a standstill.What they would like to do is to find their way to the element of soul through the brain [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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.All that we include under the term “earth” is, really, these forces.Then the ego organisation stands in direct connection also with all that is comprised under the term “water” and is in a state of equilibrium; and it is moreover directly connected also with all that is of the nature of “air”, with all that is gaseous.You know how in physics one has to learn, in addition to ordinary mechanics, a hydro-mechanics and also an aero-mechanics, the reason being that the processes of equilibrium (in water) and the meteorological processes in the air have each their own peculiar character.Finally, the ego organisation is directly connected with a part of the all-pervading “warmth” through which we are continually moving as long as we live in the physical world.EGO ORGANISATION : EARTH : WATER:AIR : WARMTHI draw a line through the word “warmth”, because it is with a part of it only that the ego is connected.We wake up, and place ourselves with our ego organisation — place ourselves as spirit — into the world of earthly forces.Our connection with these forces is in reality not a physically mediated, but a magical connection, a magical connection however which can take effect only within a particular space — namely, within the boundaries of our organism.When you have begun to understand that this connection is not a physical, but a magical connection, then you have taken a good step forward.Now let us pass on to the astral body.The astral body is also connected with certain forces that work upon us when we are awake, and here too the connection is direct — not indirect, not merely through the ether body.Among these forces we have again a part of the force of “warmth”.(You must remember, throughout, that the warmth element works in two directions; part of it reacts on the physical body, and part on the etheric body.) Then, the astral body is directly connected also with the forces of “light”.You must know however that what Spiritual Science speaks of as forces of light is not identical with what modern physics understands by the term.We do not want here to enter into a discussion of theories, but let me suggest the following.You look out upon the world around you, and perceive it all lit up.What enables you to do this? Something gives you the capacity to perceive the world illumined in this way, and it is something in the ether.Light is, in fact, an ether force.Modern science speaks of light as of something that is present where we see things illumined.Spiritual Science speaks of light in another way.It calls “light” that which underlies other sense-perceptions too; it speaks, for example, of the light of perceptions of sound.Present-day physics, when it speaks of perceptions of sound, is in reality speaking merely of their external correlate — namely, the vibration of the air.The movements in the air are but the medium of the real sound or tone, which is something etheric; the vibrating that goes on in the etheric brings about the vibration of the air.Light lives also in the perceptions of smell.In short, all perceptions have as their basis a light of a kind that is much more all-pervading than the light that is spoken of in the physics of the present day.I admit, people are liable to grow confused when we speak of light in this way.For, although it was so spoken of in ancient spiritual knowledge and even as late as the 12th and 13th centuries, all understanding of it was then lost and people began to use other names for it, which are still less intelligible! This is what makes all the alchemical books written after the 12th century so very difficult to follow.What is important for you, however, at the moment is to know that this is what we mean by “light”.Now the astral body is connected with this light; that is to say, it has direct relation — not indirect through the etheric body — with all that underlies sense-perception on the earth.This is a most interesting fact.Outside lives the light in the ether, but we have also the etheric within us.The light works upon our ether body.When we wake up, we not only come into connection with the light that is within us; but, turning aside as it were from the light that is within us, we member ourselves into the light that streams through the external world.It is the same with the external “chemical forces” that are at work in the world around us.Into these too we member ourselves, directly.And this is very important, for it means that, while he is awake, man is membered into a kind of cosmic chemistry.Modern science knows the chemistry of the lifeless, but has very little understanding of organic chemical processes; it has no knowledge at all of the chemistry that is a universal world-chemistry.And this cosmic chemistry it is, of which we become part and member when we awake from sleep.Similarly, we become part and member of the all-pervading cosmic life, the “life ether” — again, directly.EGO ORGANISATION : EARTH : WATER:AIRASTRAL BODY : WARMTH:LIGHT:CHEMICAL FORCES:LIFE-ETHERAll that we have been describing — necessarily only in outline — has to be achieved, has to be brought to fulfilment, while the human being is gradually building up, first his second body, and then his third.He has to dive down into himself, and through very penetration of his own being, immerse himself at the same time in the earthly-cosmic forces, the earthly-cosmic active forces.Entering into himself, he must in so doing be able to lay hold of the world.In one domain, and in one only, modern science has still a clear perception of how things really are.In its study of the organisation of the eye, physics proceeds in a way that one could only wish might be followed in many domains.The eye is regarded, as you know, in physics as a contrivance, a mechanism, an instrument that works in accordance with the laws of physics.In order to come to a clear comprehension of the eye, the physicist makes drawings of it, in which he demonstrates the refraction of light through a lens, the formation of the objective picture, and so forth — the very same kind of drawings as he would make for a mechanical instrument.What the physicist is unable to do is to pass on then to the way in which the element of soul enters into this mechanical instrument.The whole thing is exceedingly interesting.The physicists have before them this complete picture of the eye.But there they come to a standstill.What they would like to do is to find their way to the element of soul through the brain [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]