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The Four Ethers. From Ernst Marti By Andrew Linnell. Planetary Lifecycles. Planetary Conditions = Solar “Incarnations” . Etheric. Beings at the Human Stage. First - Physical. Element. Archai. Warmth. Thrones Will. Fire. Second – Etheric. Archangel. Light. Kyriotetes Wisdom. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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The Four Ethers

From Ernst Marti

By Andrew Linnell

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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, …

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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

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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

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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

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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

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END

Remaining slides are from other sources

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Fields

• Magnetic Field– Iron filings to make

visible

• Etheric Field– Water drops or

crystallization

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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

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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

??

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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

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Diagrams 2-5

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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

Dead

War

mth

Livi

ng W

arm

th

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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• 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