- 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:
"The suctional, inward-drawing forces of chemical ether
and life ether have their principle spheres of activity, corresponding
with their tendancy, concentrated at the earth, with its component
solid and fluid parts (oceans, etc.)
The outward-tending, centrifugal forces of light ether and warmth
ether, on the contrary, have their spheres of activity primarily
in the gaseous atmosphere surrounding the globe. This gaseous
atmosphere is surrounded by a mantle of warmth ether at the outer
borders of the atmosphere towards the cosmos..." p.46
"While the earth in its totality as an organism has the tendancy
to maintain this basic and normal arrangement of the forces (see
diagram), the extra-terrestrial cosmic influences, and especially
the sun influence, act upon this as upsetting, chaotic forces.
The whole body of phenomena -- atmospheric, meteorological, telluric
-- can, therefore, be understood only in the light of this muual
opposition, this conflict -- on one hand, the tendancy, the will,
of the earth organism to bring about the four-fold stratification
as a static condition, and on the other hand the action of the
cosmic influences which will not permit this static condition
to occur, but cause the layers mutually to whirl through one another
and ever and again disturb the normal status of the earth structure..."
p.46
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