- from The Etheric Formative Forces in Cosmos, Earth, and Man, by Gunther Wachsmith, Anthroposophic Press, New York, 1932:
- from The Etheric Formative Forces in Cosmos, Earth, and Man,
by Gunther Wachsmith, Anthroposophic Press, New York, 1932:
"We have seen that the living earth organism carries on,
with its etheric formative forces, a process of breathing and
of circulation, which comes to expression chiefly in the exhaling
and inhaling of the forces of chemical ether from the solid earth
on the one hand, and on the other in the flowing of warmth ether
downwards and then again upwards...
Between these two processes there is a fundamental distinction,
the nature of which is of decisive significance for an understanding
also of other cosmic and terrestrial processes. That is, while
the warmth ether is induced by the direct influence of the sun
to flow down through the atmosphere even to the solid earth, the
exhaling and inhaling of the forces of chemical ether, on the
other hand, constitute an occurence which -- although caused indirectly
by the sun, like everything in the cosmos -- is, however, carried
out directly by the earth organism itself." p.66
"From this reciprocal rushing past one another of the
warmth ether and the chemical ether (and naturally, to a certain
extent, the other two kinds of ether also) comes the explanation
of the maxima of the vertical current, which at sunrise and at
sunset moves perpendicularly toward the surface of the earth,
as well as the simultaneous maxima of the potential gradiant,
which is only a specific expression of the shifting and mixing
and separating processes of the etheric forces." p.64
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