Three-fold Cosmology - November 28

Hello everyone.

I am loving this study of Occult Science (although I am not often able to be part of the live webinar). This book was my first introduction to Rudolf Steiner in 1998. And rereading it again is like coming home to a old friend.

Anyway, for those of you that like poetry, I ran across this one the other day. And felt inspired to share and excerpt from it - since if expresses the evolutionary truths we are studying. Enjoy. Pamela Sophiajohn

...And
everything alive
(and everything’s
alive) is turning
into something else
as at the heart
of some annihilating
or is it creating
fire
that’s burning,
unseeably, always
burning at such speeds
as eyes cannot
detect...

“The Fire” by Franz Wright
(Printed in a collection of his poems called God’s Silence)

What a picture that paints. Thanks for sharing and thanks for sharing that you first read this 20 years ago. It might take me that long for it to feel more like a friend. Gina

Hi everyone,

Laura has been having some internet issues and was trying to post this

Hi Cory (and everyone!),

The thing I wanted to bring up as a discussion and question, at the end of class on Tuesday, is about how the horn preparations work into this picture of Lime and Silica and the "balancing" of a polarity that is also related to Arhiman and Lucifer. As the plant is living between these two forces of cosmic, carried by silica and earthly, carried by the lime, I have always thought that the horn preps (horn manure #500 related to lime and horn silica #501to silica) are working to elevate or otherwise further enliven these forces...not just balance them. Cory: what is your thinking around this?

With the picture you brought during class in mind, the "Human/ Freedom" as balance point, is, I believe, part and parcel of making and using the preparations as a way of working with the Sun Beings to help us stay on course of evolution! And I have a feeling you can further elaborate on this for us :)

Thank you....Laura

As usual, I think there are layers to this that we can work with.  If you remember the session in the last course about the horn preparations, I pointed out the substance of horn manure has a relationship to humus, and the substance of horn silica has a relation to clay.  These substances are already working at a moderating tendency.  My own interpretation of the use of these preparations is the opposite of what is usually talked about, and what you mention above Laura.  I actually see the horn manure working with the cosmic forces (carried by silica) and the horn silica working with the earthly forces (carried by lime).  "That's confusing!" you say.... yes, sorry, but I think it relates to the nature of potentization.  When the preparations are stirred, it is the forces that we are working with, no longer the substance.  The silica is burried in the summer (in the soil as a mediating medium) to expose it to the earthly forces.  The horn manure is burried (again in soil) in the winter to expose it to the cosmic forces.  I think that last page of lecture 3 that we just looked at has some clues to all this.  Carbon has to ally itself with silica in order to overcome the lime forces.  If we want to work with the earthly forces in an augmented way, we need to ally ourselves with silica, in a homeopathic way to tame the greediness of lime.  I feel that horn silica works with the process of differentiation in the plant and the earthly sun forces.  Horn manure works with the cosmic sun forces and the meristematic cosmic radiations conveying the spiritual archedype to the physicality of the plant.

I'm going to hold off on relating the Human Freedom and Sun Beings part to the preparations until towards the end of the course when we have gone through the Earth evolution.... stay tuned!

Anyone else have any thoughts??

Cory

Thank you for that reminder from last year's course! It actually makes a lot if sense to me, what you say here. it's only confusing because of my previous thinking(for a mere 18 years) which oversimplified things and left out the relationship of the cosmic forces/cosmic substance & earthy forces/earthly substance to the "upsidedown human" of the farm individuality. Once I incorporate that picture to my thought process on the preps, it totally makes sense!
Thank you .