Etheric Forces

[Bruce Michael]

Dear All,
With the looming energy crisis, some scientists have already been positing the use of etheric forces.

In some notes of the lectures of a Mr.Schiller given in 1959 on the etheric forces, he says there that "other kinds of power than the etheric will in time become unnecessary".

Etheric forces will be able to replace the role of electricity.

From the notes Mr. Schiller's lectures: [They are a little disjointed
but some points come through.]
"All engines must be a prolongation of the human body. The general idea even extends to your car."
Live with the beauty and wonder of nature. It is not without influence how I walk through a landscape. If I only look at a plant and see red flowers, green leaves I exile elemental beings still more. Understanding plants will redeem elemental beings. The same with Day, Night, Moon etc.

(The following appears to be references to lectures by Rudolf Steiner.)

How does a being of the first Hierarchy (Cherubim) look at the creation of engines by Man?
Answer: May 7 1922 Human Soul and the Evolution of the World Dornach last of 5 lectures.

"The gods hate the engine Ahriman has made on earth and made it more coarse."

19th Jan 1915: With every engine, with every mechanical device we create a starting point for demonical beings. With the understanding of dead nature we make complicated engines. We don't understand the life of spirit. Aeroplane uses the deadest part of the air not what we breathe in and out.

8th October 1923 We would build gliders (in Dornach if funds permitted) which fly in living air. Butterflies- as if wings move and carry the body with them. Build aircraft & use air as if air and not dead part.

28th Dec 1914 Man takes what is in nature and pulls it apart and puts it together again. Tears apart nature and puts it together again as he sees fit. What does this mean for elemental beings? We dispel the normal servants of the Hierarchies and put servants of Ahriman into it. We build body for Ahrimanic beings.
We take wonderful iron ore where stars are shining in it & tear it apart.
Man with his ships, radar, engines, telephones etc. is making a new geological layer round our Earth (like a net.) [Prediction!]
One modern researcher is Trevor James Constable


-Br.Bruce

[Bruce Michael]

Etheric technology relies on a whole different view on the nature of matter.

Some more from Mr. Schiller

The entire possibility of making the steam engines rests upon the establishment of space without air or occupied by very thin air and the application of this to some use.

Yahveh breathed into man the living breath, the air, and he became thereby a living soul.
Yahveh streams into the human being through the warmth. The human being drives him out when he creates a space containing rarefied air.
Ahriman gains the possibility of establishing himself as a demon even in the very physical, as the steam engine is created in this way. In constructing steam engines, the possibility is given for the incarnation of demons.

Electricity when used has far more demon magic.

Electricity is one of the "fallen ethers", it has been described as "decayed sunlight". It has a hardening effect on our own etheric body, which in turn leads to illness.

Opposing forces which bring about a balance can be created only if humanity again comes to understand the Christ Impulse, if humanity finds the way to Christ.

An understanding for the spiritual World, which can prepare for a finding of the way to Christ.
-12th Nov 1916 Karma of Vocation, Steiner.

We really need to understand the practical nature of all this, particularly when establishing a sacred space- which really should be devoid of electrical devices.

I've already mentioned the Parsis in this regard:
Zarathustra
-Br.Bruce

[Bruce Michael]

I have been following Mr. Schiller's lectures in New York on Rudolf Steiner's
indications on electricity:

"Today people use electricity without knowing what it is. Only a knowledge of its real nature can protect man against the destructive forces which assume as Ahrimanic Exusiai, the garment of light gone astray.

Electricity entered the evolution of mankind in Lemuria and entered
cosmic evolution upon the Sun with Ahriman. Galvani discovered it, but
today we must see through it much more sharply.

"Natural heat and natural light redeems matter, electricity and magnetism imprison it. In regard to electricity and magnetism we need a moral judgment. Modern science explains the whole world as a product of electricity, i.e. sub-physical forces.

To study etheric forces we may employ concepts taken from geometry- counter space.



"Our thoughts concerning nature are in themselves creative forces, and
upon Jupiter and Venus they will take on real shape. Even as nature
slides down into the sub-sensible, so man must rise to the supersensible. He does it by learning to grasp the nature of the etheric forces in a concrete and specific manner."

-Br.Bruce