Taking a break from the Baron who "was the laughing-stock of his medical colleagues." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_von...ck-Notzing
The Etherisation of the Blood
1 October 1911, Basel
https://rsarchive.org/Lectures/EthBld_index.html
Rudolf Steiner was an interesting character, I like how they added to the opening paragraph of the wiki "Many of his ideas are pseudoscientific. He was also prone to pseudohistory."
I supposed the author felt compelled to stick in in early because it all gets crazy after that. One day the author will realize that their own held beliefs are pseudoscientific and based of pseudohistory. Otherwise the influence of Christian Gnosticism is immediately evident in his writings.
Transforming blood into plasma goop, not sure this alchemical path is healthy or the correct one. We are solidly into the weird territory now. I'm not really sure this paper is about ectoplasm at all.
Now I wonder if this is what he saw, or if it's just fantasy or something that was told. There is claims he was clairvoyant.
Really getting into the thick of it now
Right so moving along swiftly, seems like it was all part of a lecture the QA section at the end is interesting and close to what I'm looking for.
The last question is to do with Earth's corpse? and ends with a diagram
The Etherisation of the Blood
1 October 1911, Basel
https://rsarchive.org/Lectures/EthBld_index.html
Quote:"mere pleasure or displeasure is at a lower level than the will to do something good or bad."
Rudolf Steiner was an interesting character, I like how they added to the opening paragraph of the wiki "Many of his ideas are pseudoscientific. He was also prone to pseudohistory."
I supposed the author felt compelled to stick in in early because it all gets crazy after that. One day the author will realize that their own held beliefs are pseudoscientific and based of pseudohistory. Otherwise the influence of Christian Gnosticism is immediately evident in his writings.
Quote:Let us ask ourselves the question: Why is the achievement of self-knowledge so difficult? Man is a very complicated being. If we mean to speak truly of his inner life, his life of soul, we shall not begin by regarding it as something simple and elementary. We shall rather have the patience and perseverance, the will, to penetrate more deeply into the marvellous creation of the Divine-Spiritual Powers known to us as Man.
From the elementary concepts of Anthroposophy we know that in waking life the four members of a man's being—physical body, etheric body, astral body and ego—are organically and actively interwoven, but that in sleep the physical and etheric bodies remain in bed, while the astral body and ego are outpoured into the great world bordering on physical existence.
Transforming blood into plasma goop, not sure this alchemical path is healthy or the correct one. We are solidly into the weird territory now. I'm not really sure this paper is about ectoplasm at all.
Now I wonder if this is what he saw, or if it's just fantasy or something that was told. There is claims he was clairvoyant.
Quote:The life of the human soul as presented here, first from external, exoteric observation and then from observation of a more mystical character is revealed by deeper (occult) investigation. The processes that have been described in their more external aspect can also be perceived in man through clairvoyance.
When a man stands in front of us today in his waking state and we observe him with the eye of clairvoyance, certain rays of light are seen streaming continually from the heart towards the head. Within the head these rays play around the organ known in anatomy as the pineal gland.
These streamings arise because human blood, which is a physical substance, is perpetually resolving itself into etheric substance. In the region of the heart there is a continual transformation of the blood into this delicate etheric substance which streams upwards towards the head and glimmers around the pineal gland.
This process—the etherisation of the blood—can be perceived in the human being all the time during his waking life.
Really getting into the thick of it now
Quote:Just as in the region of the human heart the blood is continually being transformed into etheric substance, a similar process takes place in the Macrocosm. We understand this when we turn our minds to the Mystery of Golgotha—to the moment when the blood flowed from the wounds of Jesus Christ.
Right so moving along swiftly, seems like it was all part of a lecture the QA section at the end is interesting and close to what I'm looking for.
Quote:Question: What is the relation of chemical forces and substances to the spiritual world?
Answer: There are in the world a number of substances which can combine with or separate from each other. What we call chemical action is projected into the physical world from the world of Devachan—the realm of the Harmony of the Spheres. In the combination of two substances according to their atomic weights, we have a reflection of two tones of the Harmony of the Spheres. The chemical affinity between two substances in the physical world is like a reflection from the realm of the Harmony of the Spheres. The numerical ratios in chemistry are an expression of the numerical ratios of the Harmony of the Spheres, which has become dumb and silent owing to the densification of matter. If one were able to etherealise material substance and to perceive the atomic numbers the inner formative principle thereof, he would be hearing the Harmony of the Spheres.
We have the physical world, the astral world, the Lower Devachan and the Higher Devachan. If the body is thrust down lower even than the physical world, it comes into the sub-physical world, the lower astral world, the lower or evil Lower Devachan, and the lower or evil Higher Devachan. The evil astral world is the province of Lucifer, the evil Lower Devachan the province of Ahriman, and the evil Higher Devachan the province of the Asuras. When chemical action is driven down beneath the physical plane—into the evil Devachanic world—magnetism arises. When light is thrust down into the sub-material—that is to say, a stage deeper than the material world—electricity arises. If what lives in the Harmony of the Spheres is thrust down farther still, into the province of the Asuras, an even more terrible force—which it will not be possible to keep hidden very much longer—is generated. It can only be hoped that when this force comes to be known—a force we must conceive as being far, far stronger than the most violent electrical discharge—it can only be hoped that before some discoverer gives this force into the hands of humankind, men will no longer have anything un-moral left in them.
Quote:
Question: What is electricity?
Answer: Electricity is light in the sub-material state. Light is there compressed to the utmost degree. An inward quality too must be ascribed to light; light is itself at every point in space. Warmth will expand in the three dimensions of space. In light there is a fourth; it is of fourfold extension—it has the quality of inwardness as a fourth dimension.
The last question is to do with Earth's corpse? and ends with a diagram
Quote:Reflected as sub-physical world:
Astral World—the province of Lucifer
Lower Devachan—the province of Ahriman
Higher Devachan—the province of the Asuras