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WORKINGS OF THE STARS IN EARTHLY SUBSTANCES
It is here to deal with the Mystery of Matter and to open up a path
into a vast domain, where wonderful things will be revealed to us, if
we will but observe impartially the results of our experiments and
acknowledge the pictures which Nature herself has painted. It is a
treatise on science appealing to the Artistic Sense in man, which
will enable him to approach with a feeling of reverence and awe a
work of art depicting the influence of the stars in earthly
substances.
It was Rudolf Steiner, the founder of Anthroposophy who gave us a new
insight into the world of minerals, of plants and of animals. It was
he who showed humanity the way back again from Matter to Spirit. The
following essay is inspired by the teaching that Anthroposophy has to
give.
All the substances around us are subject to the laws of gravity. Are
all solid bodies however subject only to the earth-forces, or are
they acted upon by other outside forces? Is it possible in fact for
the stars themselves to influence and to work upon earthly matter?
It is difficult for a modern man to believe that a star, millions of
mile distant from the earth, should be able to exercise an influence
on it and yet it is so, the stars do influence earthly events.
In a lecture given by Rudolf Steiner to a body of natural scientists,
one finds the following important statement: "So long as Substances
are in a solid state, they are subject to the forces of the Earth,
but as soon as they enter the liquid state, the planetary forces come
into play". This means, that the solid, unalloyed iron, or any iron
salt is subject only to earth forces, but dissolve it in water and in
solution it is subject not only to the forces of earth but also to
the planetary forces of Mars to whom we owe the origin of iron on our
earth.
Unalloyed silver or any silver salt in its solid state is subject to
earth forces, but when dissolved in water it is the Moon, that is
working in the solution, for it is to the influence of the Moon in a
remote past, that we owe the origin of silver.*
Unalloyed lead or any lead salt in its solid state is subject to
earth forces only, but when dissolved in water, it comes under the
influence of Saturn according to the statements of Dr. Steiner.
We shall now proceed to describe a series of experiments which, up to
a point, anyone can verify for himself. Why I am compelled to say "up
to a point" will become apparent in the course of the essay. The
preparations for the experiment are exceedingly simple. Except for
the substances, only filter paper and a certain kind of glass cup are
necessary.
We have been occupied with these experiments for a number of years.
They were undertaken for other purposes, and are referred to in other
publications.**
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