Dear Robin et al,
Here's one for you to meditate on. What would be
the effect of spraying leaf crops with Argentum nitricum CM potency on a
Scorpio, Pisces or Cancer moon.
Or the effect of Lycopodium CM on Sulphur content in soil.
What happens if we use Schusslers tissue salts on plants?can we learn from
Materia medica the likely agricultural effects of different plants or
substance.
The effect is truly amazing.
James
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Sent: Monday, August 12, 2002 1:04
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Subject: Re: : Koliskos on 'Smallest
Entities In Agriculture' and The Calcium Process in Nature (long 6
pages)
Hi all,
I'm up for the sharing, reading, and exchanging ideas on Kolisco's
work. I've read the book about 4 years ago. The book was not mine
so I don't have a copy. Yes I enjoyed
reading it. I'll participate according
to the bits and pieces delivered on this list.
My comments for are for Chapter 1:
Steiner comments on this part of Kolisko's research in "Mensch und
Welt: Das Wirken des Geistes in der Natur (1923)":
- "... We have demonstrated with this method the action of smallest
entities of substances. You see, the effect of very small quantities is
curiously rhythmic. If we dilute, we obtain at a the end, at a given
dilution, the best growth. Growth increases and decreases with
each dilution; this evolution occurs rhythmically. By giving these
substances to plants, we thus demonstrate that their growth depends on
something that acts on them from the outside, and what acts on them
is related to what is rhythmic in its environment...".
So... how does this relationship function? What is the outside
rhythm? I'll venture an opinion. Perhaps the relation
is that of 'material elements' to 'cosmic rhythms (the motion of the sun,
moon, planets and constellations). Linking Koliscos 'potency'
research to Maria Thun's ideas about cosmic influence, tells us that the
cosmos acts on BOTH plants and soil elements. Maria T. showed that,
at the time of germination, the cosmos influenced either
roots, fruits, leaves, or shoots. Kolisko showed that
the cosmos influences elements according to dilution in
water. Perhaps a web of interactions here?
How can we formulate this web.?
Second, I wonder about his treatment variable; germination.
If a potency of 9 is best for lime on germination of seeds, what would be the
substance and its dilution for, say, leaf growth? Is it possible
that each plant part has a 'smallest entity' given by
a specific substance. Couldn't we look at the
Maria Thun's cosmic conditions to get an answer? For example, leaf signs
(e.g. Aquarius, Libra, and Gemini) would not only
influence leave, but specific minerals. What minerals are
under these cosmic conditions? Couldn't potency be linked to the
chaos that a seed encounters under cosmic influence? If this
is the case, then it should not be to difficult to elaborate.
What say you?
Hmmm... I need more meditation before I turn my attention to Chapter
10.
Robin
----- Original Message -----
Sent: August 11, 2002 5:05 AM
Subject: Re: : Koliskos on 'Smallest
Entities In Agriculture' and The Calcium Process in Nature (long 6
pages)
Hi Allan and all .I have added on chapter ten and a few
comments at the very
bottom for any interested in reading that
far
Koliskos on 'Smallest Entities In
Agriculture'
> The following is from "Agriculture of Tomorrow"
by Eugen and Lily
> Kolisko. This title is out of print and is
reproduced here for
> purposes of education.
>
> "Today,
people in general are little inclined to detach themselves
> from the
claims of the material world and to seek the spiritual
> directly in
the physical world around them . . .
>
> It is, however,
precisely from observing directly the
> sense-perceptible that a right
path will open out for those who wish
> now to work entirely within
the fild of present-day science, if they
> really seek to discover the
spritual there. It can be done . .
>
>
> Chapter
1
> INTRODUCTION
>
> It may seem strange to speak about
"smallest entities" in
> agriculture, but it is absolutely necessary
that farmers and
> gardeners learn to understand this important
phenomenon.
>
> The problem of minutest quantities, or better
"smallest entities,"
> was studied from 1920 in the Biological
Institute at the Goetheanum
> (Stuttgart) and later on in the
Biological Institute at Bray, Berks.
> The attempt to find a remedy
for "Footand-Mouth Disease" led us to
> the question of "smallest
entities." What is the right concentration
> of the specific remedy to
be injected? Rudolf Steiner suggested that
> the effect of different
dilutions on germinating plants should be
> studied. From 1920 until
today we have been studying this interesting
> subject. One might
think that this is a medical problem rather than
> an agricultural
one. Of course it is a medical problem in that we are
> looking for a
certain remedy, but it becomes an agricultural problem
> as well if we
study how the growth of plants is affected by
> substances which are
diluted, or rather potentised.
>
> What does "potentise" mean?
Exactly what the word itself expresses.
> In potentising a substance,
we increase its effectiveness. We make
> the substance more potent.
The strange thing about potentising is,
> that we have to reduce the
amount of the substance which we want to
> make more potent. In
everyday life we are accustomed to think: if we
> want to make
something more effective, we have to take a bigger
> quantity.
For instance, if we want to make coffee sweeter, we take a
>
second teaspoonful of sugar. In homeopathy we are told just the
>
opposite thing. If we want a stronger action from a certain remedy,
>
we have to potentise it, that means dilute it with water or alcohol,
>
again and again, in a rhythmical way.
>
> This is the first and
most important thing we have to learn: to
> discriminate between
matter and force. Matter can act in two
> different ways: as matter,
or as the specific force behind the
> matter. In everyday life we ask
only for matter, for quantity, and we
> do not even stop to think,
that there is something like a force which
> is active in every kind
of matter. Sugar for instance is not only
> sweet that is one
quality we discover with our sense of taste.
> Besides being sweet,
sugar has many other qualities which we are
> unable to taste but
none-the-less have definite reactions within our
>
organism.
>
> Now we must raise another important question: What
do we want in
> reality? The substance itself, or the inner quality of
the substance?
>
> For instance, a farmer may be convinced that
his soil needs lime. How
> does he solve the problem? Usually he digs
a large amount of lime
> into the soil. Again and again he will dig in
lime.
>
> Let us now study the influence of "smallest entities"
of lime on the
> germination of wheat. We put a certain number of
seeds in a control
> dish with water. Then we dissolve one gram of
calcium hydroxide in
> ten parts of water and shake the mixture for
some minutes; then we
> have the first potency or a dilution of 1:
10.
>
> We take I part of the first potency; mix it with 9 parts
of water;
> shake for the same time, and we have the second potency,
or a
> dilution of 1:100. We may continue this process of diluting as
long
> as we like. Usually we make our experiments up to the 60th
potency.
> Having finished all the potencies, we insert the carefully
selected
> seeds, and, a few days later we compare the
results.
>
> The seeds inserted in he first potency of lime
scarcely start to
> germinate. The effect of lime in such a high
concentration is thus
> proven unfavorable. The seeds in the 2nd
potency start to sprout,
> while while those in the water control are
much more advanced in
> growth.
>
> The 3rd potency is
more advanced than the 2nd, the 4th is of about
> the same value as
the water control, the 5th already surpasses the
> water control and
has definitely better developed roots.
>
> The 6th potency is
more advanced than the 5th, and the 7th and 8th
> potencies show still
more increase in growth. That means, if we
> observe these few
potencies, that a dilution of 1: 100,000,000 of
> lime produces a much
better growth than a lower potency. The lime
> works much more
powerfully 9 we use a minute quantity. Whenever we
> have to introduce
lime into the soil we need not dig in a ,'large
> quantity of the
solid matter, but spray a certain potency carefully
> on the surface
of the soil.
>
> It is an easy, and a very economical way of
helping the soil which is
> lacking in lime.
>
Chapter X THE
CALCIUM PROCESS IN NATURE
Calcium also, like silica, plays a great part
in Nature, and farmers and
gardeners have to know something about the
calcium content of their land.
Our first question must be about the
origin of calcium on our planet earth.
Where did it come from? Huge
mountains are built up from this substance.
The limestone we find in the
South Sea Islands originated from corals; that
means it comes from the
animal kingdom. Much of the mountain region in the
Alps, is also built up
from corals (the Bavarian Alps, Wetterstein
Mountains, Jura Alps, etc.).
We find everywhere that limestone originates
from the shells of living
beings. If we look at marble, for instance, the
pure, white, crystallised
Carrara marble which is used for sculpture, for
building material, etc. -
it seems to be a perfectly lifeless mineral
matter. But here and there we
find petrified corals in the quarries.
Of course lime can be dissolved in
water (not so silica), then it
re-crystallises and looks like dead
mineral matter, with no connection
whatsoever with life. Nevertheless,
calcium originates from living beings.
We have already mentioned the
publication by Professor Vernadsky, the
Russian geo-chemist, and must
mention him here again, because he has
collected an immense amount of
material which proves beyond any doubt, that
all the lime we find on
earth has been derived from living beings:
"omni calx e vermibus." Dover
cliffs consist of pure white chalk, the
deposit of millions and millions
of shells from tiny living creatures, the
Foraminiferae.
And as for
Coal - everybody knows that it is the remains of plants belonging
to
previous epochs of the earth's evolution. The same can be said
about
Slate.
Today science is coming to the conclusion that nearly all
the mineral
deposits are derived from living beings, that they are the
remains of plants
or animal skeletons.
It is interesting to remember
how geological classification came about. An
Italian scientist, standing
in the Plain of the Po and looking towards the
Alps, noticed that
different layers were to be seen in the rocks, and he
called the lowest
one the "primary" rocks, the next layer "secondary," and
the next
"tertiary" - these are the limestone formations; and the next was
the
"quaternary" (Alluvium). That is the origin of our
geological
classification. At present we count some twelve or thirteen
layers, because
later some sub-divisions were made.
In these different
layers of the earth the remains of specific animals are
to be found. The
geologists call these animals index fossils. In a
particular layer
certain specific shells or snails are to be found - so
wherever such
fossils appear one is able to say to which geological period
they belong.
Thus the principles of geology are based on the presence of
certain
petrified animals. The old layer which does not contain fossils is
called
"archaic."
The question is: Do we not find specific animal residues there
because there
was no life? Or is it possible that everything was life,
that the whole was
permeated with life?
If we study geology, and see
how much life there has been everywhere, we
cannot really think there can
have been any epoch in our earth evolution
when there was no life at all.
There is a certain place in the Jura
Mountains - Hoizmaden - where nearly
all the huge petrified animals have
been found, and which now can be seen
in various museums all over the world.
In Hoizmaden (Southern Germany) we
find the Triassic Slate Formation. This
layer is full of animals. Life
cannot be created out of dead matter, but it
is the life-process which
deposits dead matter. As in a swamp, where all is
permeated with life,
with slugs and worms and insects, etc., so we have to
imagine that once
our earth was in a more liquid condition - between solid
and liquid - but
full of life. The whole of earthly matter was living
substance.
If we
can grasp this, then we can understand better how the whole
mineral
kingdom of bur planet earth has originated out of such living
creatures. The
earth as a whole was once a huge living being.
There is
ample material to prove this as far as the lime and calcium process
is
concerned, and also for many other processes in nature. The
Russian
scientist Vernadsky, who has made extensive geologi-cal
investigations, is
convinced that living beings and dead matter have
always existed side by
side. He is convinced of the "eternity of life on
earth." Life, as such, has
never been created on earth -but dead,
lifeless matter has originated from
the life-process itself. For
instance, a living substance like
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protoplasm, contains many
different substances which cannot be discriminated
from one another so
long as they are in the living organism. If the living
organism is
killed, then, of course, all the different substances become
apparent. In
a similar way, life was interwoven in the origin of our
planet
earth.
In speaking of Silica, its resistance to heat and to
acids was mentioned,
and that it is insoluble in water. Neither heat nor
water affect it. With
calcium it is different. If we want to understand
calcium as a substance,
then we must observe, for instance, how it slowly
crystallises out of the
water. It is deeply connected with water, but has
also the tendency to form
a deposit. But lime can only be dissolved in
water, if there is also a
certain amount of carbonic acid present. If the
carbonic acid evaporates -
lime is deposited.
That is a general law we
find in Nature. If out of a medium something
evaporates into the air,
another part solidifies, and falls to the earth.
So we see the lime
wandering between tlie solid and the liquid state. This
substance has a
certain desire, as well for the one as for the other kind of
existence.
It is eager to be dissolved in water - but it is as eager to fall
out as
a deposit again. This process is carried out with the help of
the
carbonic acid. In the sea there are thousands of species of animals
and
plants which collect calcium. In the living organisms we find
exclusively
calcium-carbonates.
Calcium-sulphates are deposited from
concentrated solutions, where there is
no more life left. Calcium
sulphate or gypsum can be dissolved in water. For
instance, all the
Italian mineral waters contain some sulphur. In gypsum we
have not only
the qualities of calcium, but those of sulphur as well.
Calcium carbonate
can be dissolved in water containing a surplus of carbonic
acid; it can
be burnt and the carbonic acid driven out; and then we get
quicklime. If
lime is heated it begins to emit light, the so-called
Drummond's
lime-light. This burnt lime has an enormous desire to get into
contact
with water. If it is slaked the water disappears rapidly into the
lime,
and begins to boil. The lime has become an alkali.
Calcium Nitrate is
formed during the disintegration of nitrogenous organic
substances in the
presence of calcium.
Calcium Phosphate treated with sulphuric acid,
becomes soluble in water;
mixed with calcium phosphate in about equal
proportions, it is used as a
"fertilizer" under the name of
superphosphate. Lawes of Rothamsted worked
out and patented in 1842 a
method for doing this on a large scale. This was
the first artificial
fertilizer.
Calcium fluoride we find in Nature, sometimes in beautiful
crystals, as
fluorspar.
Again we turn back to silica. It was said that
silica is found more on the
surface of the earth and less the deeper we
go down beneath the surface. The
plants deposit silica more or less in
their peripheric parts. In the animal
kingdom we find it also more or
less deposited in the peripheric organs, or
forming the shell of the
lower animals. The same phenomenon happens in the
human organism, where
silica is to be found in the skin, nails, hair and
eyes.
Lime, on the
other hand, withdraws inside the human body and forms the
skeleton. If we
look at the way the different substances are distributed in
Nature, in
all the different kingdoms of Nature, if we try to follow up the
steps
that are made, then we get a better understanding of what we have to
do
in agriculture. We must grasp the whole process: the silica-process,
the
calcium-process, the sulphur-process, the nitrogen-process, etc.;
a
"process" embraces much more than substance
alone.
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>>If we follow this a bit further (thru chapter
11) we see the results of
experiments >>carried out using slaked
lime , quicklime and nitro chalk (I
imagine this is a crude
>>powdered form of calcium nitrate?) NO MENTION of
ordinary
carbonate lime. The >>results for these three were very
different
but with a lift at the ninth or tenth potency .
>>Read on-------
Chapter XII
SUGGESTIONS FOR THE
HOMOEOPATHIC USE OF LIME
What can we do to bring lime into soil which has
an "insufficiency" of this
process?
We have mentioned this in the
introduction to the Chapter "Smallest Entities
in
Agriculture":
(1) We distribute lime in a certain potency over the
surface of the soil
which lacks lime.
According to our experiments, we
suggest using the 9th or 10th potencies.
This is very economical. We owe
a great debt of gratitude to Dr. Rudolf
Steiner for his idea of
introducing the homoeo-pathic principle into
agriculture.
(2) In
making compost heaps (see Chapter IX, Part III), we spread a thin
layer
of quicklime between the layers of the materials that are used.
(3)
In the Oakbark preparation (see Chapter III, Part III), we
introduce
calcium again in
homoeopathic quantities into the manure or
compost heaps. This calcium comes
from the living plant process in the
oak tree, and has the faculty of acting
prophylactically against "plant
diseases." In those cases where plant
diseases are to be dealt with and
where calcium must take the place of a
remedy, it is better to take it
from a living plant-process and not in its
more mineral form as
quicklime. The oakbark preparation has to undergo a
special composting
process in the skull of an animal. Thus, as a surrounding
for the
calcium-containing oakbark, that part of an animal which is also
built up
of calcium - the bony structure of the head - is used. If we adopt
these
suggestions, the soil receives all it needs of calcium forces, and
we
need not dig in large quantities of it.
Your turn!!
L
Charles
Radiasesthesia and Radionic Analysis
Radionic Insect and Parasite
control
Bioethical Agriculture Consultant
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