COSMIC BLUEPRINT
from The
Cosmic Pulse of Life
by Trevor James Constable, BSRF
1990
A man's mind stretched by a new idea can
never go back to its original dimensions.
-OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
In attempting to provide a thumbnail sketch of the spiritual-scientific conceptions of Dr. Steiner, and of those who followed the pathway he broke, one is sharply conscious of a certain impertinence. Steiner's work is destined to change the character of modern knowledge, as well as expand the means of its acquisition. These are weighty matters. There are at present in print, in the U.S.A. and in the English language, at least 250 separate books and collections of lectures by Dr.
Steiner. Let the following words therefore be regarded as an outline sketch of those aspects of Steiner's work that enabled me to approach UFO phenomena in a new way.
Anthroposophy provides insight into the changes of consciousness that have taken place during human evolution, in various regions and periods of the past. Popular conceptions of ancient man present him as just like us, but lacking automobiles, electronics and similar modern appurtenances. Our belief today is that people did not really know anything before the rise of modern science and its measurement techniques.
Prior to the development, in the immediately recent past, of modern natural science, human beings held completely different views of cosmic and planetary evolution from those that are considered scientifically valid today. In
earlier cultures, extending as far back as written
records take us, men expressed their conceptions of cosmic workings in the
"mythologies" that are an integral part of the cultural history of
early humanity. Scientists lend no credence to these views of early men.
Evolution and creation as seen by the ancients arose out of religious ideas
and inspirations influencing humans in those early epochs.
Steiner has pointed out in many of his lectures, that all
these varying cosmologies and cosmogonies regardless of the geographical
region, ethnic rooting or time period in which they were developed attest to
a mode of consciousness in their formulators markedly different from that of
modern man. Spiritual beings were held to stand behind natural processes.
These spiritual entities were deemed to be interwoven with earth life in a way
that modern scientific consciousness can only regard as absurd.
Dr. Steiner recognizes and accepts the power and clarity of
modern scientific thinking. At the same time, he repeatedly states that the
particular type of brain-bound consciousness that has given rise to present
material science, is a transitional form of consciousness. In short,
changes of consciousness in the past evolution of mankind are a fact. Changes
of consciousness in the future are a certainty.
Breaking through all prior limits of knowledge drawn by
earlier philosophers, Steiner himself demonstrated in the breadth and depth of
his own life's work what the scientific mind of the future will be like. The
scientist of tomorrow will have exact perception of the spiritual
worlds, and of their processes and denizens. Present-day material science may
be considered a sort of prototype of a future science that will understand the
laws of the spiritual worlds with the same precision and clarity of thought
now attending its physical endeavors.
As we move toward the increasing encounters with other-world intelligences and forms that are arising out of UFO manifestations, we
do well to remember two things concerning the orthodox knowledge with which
we are presently at- tempting official investigations of UFOs:
1. Modern natural science has been on the world scene only
about a century and a half.
2. Until the advent of modern natural science, the mythico-religious
conceptions of creation were the only conceptions entertained by humans. Their
history extends back for millennia.
When technical data has been offered by non-terrestrials in
contact with earthmen, as in the George Van Tassel communications, this technical advice has two main characteristics:
1. Advanced scientific concepts are employed that indicate
technological mastery of etherian physics. These concepts have been largely
execrated by official science when advanced theoretically by highly
intelligent earth men. To the "spacemen" they are facts, far into
technical application.
2. The entities involved speak of spiritual laws and forces
with the same precision that we can apply only to "hard" technical
fields like chemistry and optics.
The importance of Steiner's pioneering work
showing
humanity the pathway to such superior cognition should already be evident. He
showed us how to get to where the UFOs and their controlling intelligences
already are. We have to do the job ourselves. We do it in freedom.
Steiner gave mankind the basic means and methods for
acquiring the powers of cognition necessary to extend our scientific
understanding of creation. The extension must inevitably be into the
supersensible realms that stand behind the manifested world. Such glimpses of
the New Knowledge in technical application as the UFOs have given us, leave
little doubt that 21st century science is going to be radically different to
that of today. So will be the consciousness of its scientists.
The time to set such changes on foot is now.
The contemporary deracination of any kind of spiritual or
soul force as active in earth life is a recent thing in the evolution of
humanity. Through all prior time, man maintained cosmic connections. The
impact of UFOs on scientific consciousness their arousal of technical
curiosity and their inaccessibility to existing methods has been immense. The UFOs have confronted us with the need to change ourselves. The
direction of change will be as Dr . Steiner indicated the systematic
acquisition of superior cognitive and perceptive powers and by the means he
defined.
Thousands of young science students in the past decade took
"trips" with LSD and other psychedelics, blasting open centers of
higher perception with this powerful drug. Out of this pathological, but
nevertheless devastatingly real contact with mind-stuff and emotion-stuff, has
come a general impulse toward spiritual renewal. The science student who has
seen the working of the ethers while under drugs becomes a candidate for their
theoretical study, and for the intelligent application of his will to his own
inner development. The strong souls will develop in themselves the same
perceptual and cognitive powers as Dr. Steiner.
Modern materialistic science and its specialized
consciousness have reached back into earlier earth life in the course of
scientific investigation. Writings, drawings and records arising from human inner
wisdom have been classified as mere superstition. This attitude stems
from the impossibility of our viewing the cosmos with the consciousness of a
Chaldean star-worshipper or an Egyptian priest. There is justification for the
attitude of modern science, but it is essentially one-sided, and that is its
weakness.
Cosmologies predating modern science had Man as the center
and purpose of earth evolution. He was seen as worked upon by spiritual
beings, powers and forces in an upward path to perfection. Modern
materialistic science, by contrast, regards man as the end product of a series
of biochemical accidents and arcane distillations, and there is as yet no
coherent theory of evolution capable of withstanding the mounting torrent of
scientific discoveries. Science is adrift in this field largely because it has
not yet learned to read correctly the facts it has found. As with UFOs, the
problem is not a lack of hard data, but a question of perception and
consciousness.
The ancients conceived of the world and man as being built
up over the eons by divine workings. In the sciences of the future, we will regain a similar knowledge of human origins, according to
Dr. Steiner. This future science will develop its understanding of evolution
by fortifying its external work with exact supersensible perceptions,
scientific discipline, and a firm knowledge of the four basic ethers whose
formative powers rule physical creation.* Ancient men felt themselves
intimately membered into these etheric weavings, and out of this relationship
arose what we regard today as ancient mythologies.
* As a bold commencing effort see The Loom of Creation by
Dennis Milner, D.Sc., and Edward Smart, published by Neville Spearman Ltd.,
London.
Modern materialistic science extinguishes all such intuitive feelings in its votaries. The systematic biasing of otherwise free minds
is the bedrock of higher education, which George Bernard Shaw appropriately
described as a "budget of lies". The religious conceptions that
survived the rise of modern science were relegated to the philosophical domain
of faith -the bailiwick of ministers, mystics and the multitudes who followed
them. As science multiplied its power of investigation, the religious field
came to be regarded as essentially for the misguided and ill-informed.
For the old conceptions of divine workings, science
substituted the Kant-La Place theory of evolution. Synthesized out of the
conceptions of philosopher Immanuel Kant (Natural History of the Heavens) and
the theories of Napoleon's astronomer Pierre La Place, this was an approach
to evolution wholly in tune with the juggernaut of Mechanism. Stripped of all
soul, spirit and kindred influences, the Kant-La Place theory presented a
lifeless, sterile picture of the origins of the earth.
A glowing, revolving gas ball is deemed to have slowly
condensed, under this theory, spinning off the planets into their orbits. The
whole thing eventually settled into the configuration we see today.
Verifiable mechanical laws rule the whole happening. Soul and spirit become
superfluous to what are regarded as the hard, physical facts. Life on earth is
a later, seemingly accidental addition to the basic sterility of the earth's origin. To this day, scientists have been content with this
theory .As this is written, it is being crammed anew into the heads of yet
another hapless generation of youngsters.
Evolution thus came to be regarded scientifically as
something starting from inert substance, proceeding from below upwards. The
basic astronomical mathematics of Johannes Kepler were an indispensable step
in the consolidation of these modern scientific ideas of evolution, but were
divested of Kepler's conception of the universe as the body of a gigantic
spiritual being. Any suggestion of spirit in the new concepts was left with
the mythological notions of ancient men, amid the dust and junk of long-dead
civilizations.
The searingly hot Kant-La Place gas ball is a mechanist's
delight. Physical man or other life either as an extant entity at the time
or as a prior contributor to evolution was totally eliminated. My discovery
of the plasmatic bio-forms heat critters undoes the idea that great heat
and life are incompatible and paves the way for a new empirical beginning.
Since Kant-La Place, however, notions of when and how life on earth started,
have in formal circles, occupied some of our brightest minds. These varying
notions have also triggered some of the fiercest arguments between scientists.
The sterility that is seemingly inseparable from that
glowing gas ball, and the mechanical notions of evolution constrained by its
acceptance, have blocked generations of thinkers from reaching any valid
conceptions about the origins of the earth. Dr. Steiner's indications, based
on exact supersensible perception, open all the necessary doors. What he has
provided is in harmony with basic natural scientific findings. All this, in
turn, reaches with illuminating power into some of the central riddles of
ufology.
Dr. Steiner stated in his numerous lectures that lime
formations are deposits of living organisms. Shellfish, snails, polyps and
similar organisms have deposited the lime formations of the earth.
Dr. Steiner made this observation some seventy years ago. Geochemical research
in modern times progressively confirms Steiner's statements. In a relatively recent incident
bearing upon ufology , the origin of other earthly matter in life processes
was elevated to an even more startling eminence. We reach forward from Dr.
Rudolf Steiner in the first years of this century to Ivan T. Sanderson's Uninvited
Visitors for one instance worth a thousand.
Biologist-geologist Ivan T. Sanderson was among the
scientists interested in ufology who believe that before we seek to understand
extraterrestrial life, we should try and better understand terrestrial life.
That modern science is woefully derelict in this sphere, is evident from the
incident he cites on page 99 of Uninvited Visitors.*
* Published by Cowles Communications, Inc., New York, 1967.
"A scientist in Germany was assigned after World
War II to make certain surveys of the deep salt mines in Bavaria, where the
Nazis had stashed art and other treasures that they had plundered from museums
and collections all over Europe. This man, a biologist in its widest sense,
happened to become interested in the salt itself, which was laid down under
some overwarm sea about 200 million years ago. He took samples and analyzed
them, and one of the things that startled him was that living things turned up
in the resultant solutions. Naturally, he assumed that these were the product
of contamination during the taking of the samples, or later in his laboratory, since all air is choked with such living things as spores and bacteria.
"However, he refined his techniques with every conceivable precaution, and still the living things appeared, until finally he was
forced to the conclusion that they were resuscitated generations of
creatures that had lived in the ancient sea and become fossilized along with
the salt, to rest for millions of years before being 'brought back to life.'
This bizarre experiment was subsequently tested by others, starting from
scratch and using both their own and the original methods. Always the same
answer."
Limestone and subterranean salt, oil, coal and slate
deposits are all produced out of living processes. Then why not the totality of
the matter of which the earth itself consists? To the objection that azoic
rocks have never been found to contain fossils, there is the work of British
biochemist Morley Martin as an answer. Under conditions of total sterility he
proved in the 1930s that animal forms exist in and can be awakened from
azoic rocks. Such devastating findings wreak havoc upon the neurotic
security of those whose whole world conception rests upon the opposite. Like
Steiner, Reich, Drown, Abrams, Velikovsky and other genuine scientists, Morley
Martin has been the victim of obscurantism.
Recognizing the epoch-making nature of Morley
Martin's
discoveries, the late Meade Layne compiled an introductory brochure on the
English biochemist's work, and published it in July 1950 under the imprimatur
of Borderland Sciences Research Association. It was entitled The Morley Martin
Experiments and the Experiments of Dr. Charles w. Littlefield.
Morley Martin, by a series of manipulations in total
sterility, caused to emerge in microscopic miniature, vertebrate forms such as
we know, together with others which no longer exist. Morley Martin's vigorous
condensations and chemical transmutations reproduced these creatures, in his
own words, "in the way they probably came out from the fire-mist or the
gas of our nebula." Under the microscope, trusted witnesses reported
seeing vertebrates take shape within the protoplasm, with the outlines of
limbs and claws following, then the heads and eyes. One crustacean developed
its legs and then walked off the field of the microscope.
When Morley Martin died in 1938, he had published only one
small brochure, The Reincarnation of Animal and Plant Life from Protoplasm
Isolated from the Mineral Kingdom, which appeared in 1934. Renown awaits
the enterprising young biochemist who treads this same pathway today, for
the lesson of all such work Morley Martin's experiments, those of Dr.
Littlefield and the earlier Andrew Crosse is that the opposite of life is not
death, but latency. Biogenesis is not the mystery that obscurantist
high priests of official science would have their fellow humans believe.
Human experience and experimental results have thus advanced
slowly to those conceptions of eternal life on earth first put forward in
modern terms by the amazing Steiner. The inert matter of the earth has been
precipitated out of the life processes of the earth itself, just as inert
minerals appear when we kill any living organism. That is, the corpse
becomes of the substance of the earth itself. The unanswerable question is
really no longer "When did life appear on earth?", but rather
"When was there not life on earth?" The continued and dogmatic
teaching in the universities of a world conception rooted in sterility is a
fraud against the young. Ultimately, such lies will lead to revolt.
The concept of life being ever-present on earth is in no way
upset or disturbed by geological evidence that certain mineral substances were
once liquid. As long as we are strapped to mechanistic conceptions of the
earth's origin, we consider this onetime liquefaction of presently dense sub-
stances to have been due to colossal temperatures. Mechanistically, there is
no way around this.
In our pro-Life viewpoint, we read our lessons directly from
nature. We know that in biological processes within living organisms,
substances are liquefied which, if they were external to the organism, would
be solidly mineralized. Such processes go on continually in our own bodies,
and especially in our digestion. All manner of "solid" substances
are dissolved in protoplasm and in blood. The peculiar power and character
of biological processes is exemplified in the vulgar television commercial
that shows fabric in which a hole has been burned by "concentrated
stomach acid." The acid does not burn through the stomach, but is held in
check by biological processes that are, at best, poorly understood.
Hydrochloric acid is formed in external nature by massive
processes of volcanism -a happening that approaches in temperatures those
applicable to the Kant-La Place ball-of-hot-gas theory. In the individual
human being this acid is formed without our even being aware of it, at a
modest 37° centigrade! Why do learned men avoid and evade the clear testimony of all manner of liquefaction in living processes? Wilhelm Reich has
provided the answer to this chronic evasion of the essential and we will
deal with this in due course.
Given the undoubted ability of organisms to liquefy
otherwise solid substances, it is but a short step to grasping Steiner's
account of earlier epochs of the earth. One goes back not into sterility, but
into an earth far more actively permeated with life than it is today. The
farther one goes back, the more the earth seethes with life. Today's earth has
grown cosmically old and mineralized, like a human octogenarian. Steiner
takes us back in time to progressively more active life forces, and hence we
can entertain the idea of a liquid state and farther back a gaseous state as a
teeming center of life, whose nature is quite different to present earth
life.
This "backward progression" allows soul and spirit
forces to enter the evolution of an earth constituted differently from the
present earth. We can easily conceive of an epoch where all would consist of energy
only. In modern times, we have a crude counterpart of this type of life in
our plasmatic creatures that dwell in the atmosphere. My pictures are heat
pictures, and they show living organisms.
With Anthroposophical knowledge, one works back through ever
more active life processes. Soul and spirit are admitted. Ancient men
discerned their workings in earlier epochs, and recorded their perceptions in
what we now discard as myth. Kant-La Place starts with the moribund, cosmically old earth of today, and attempts to go back into deadness to find
life. In Steiner's conceptions, life and change are endemic. The mechanists
are the misguided men who deny life and try to kill change especially change
in their own conceptions.
Radical as Steiner's conceptions may seem, they
actually do no violence to the facts natural science has determined concerning
prior evolution. This must be seen as distinct from the judgements and
theories attached to those facts. When Morley-Martin brought critters to life
in miniature out of azoic rocks, it is only the prior assumption that those
rocks predate life on earth that is demolished. Knowledge and understanding are thus advanced by such original
empirical findings.
That particular discovery, given new force and merit by the
correlative Bavarian salt-cave discoveries mentioned earlier, permits science
to go forward and embrace new truths. The men who are troubled and disoriented
by such findings are those whose neurotic security is anchored in the old
theories and the old knowledge. Their eventual passage from the scene is a
certainty.
Meanwhile, such people control natural science and its
reception systems. They ensure that the living, vibrant youth embarking upon
higher education is biased and deadened beyond redemption. The price of
getting a living in science is compliance with established practices and knowledge. Although sound when properly applied, this principle has been misused
and is now a major instrumentality of intellectual corruption.
At every hand, therefore, the real innovators, the real discoverers and trailblazers work outside the scientific establishment. They
have no option. Much of the fury of today's young arises from an intuitive
sense of right and wrong about what is taught. The discoveries made by the
scientific mavericks of this century are positively staggering. Every one of
them is a hammer blow at the foundations of the old order.
Consider the dating techniques possible with radioactive
carbon, for example. Immense authority attaches to these dating techniques.
When Dr. Wilhelm Reich discovered the orgone energy, he also discovered in
subsequent work that concentrations of this energy were capable of so
decisively altering the half-life of radioactive substances as to corrupt the
dating process completely. An earth more alive than at present would be an
earth more intensely permeated with or- gone energy -life energy -and thus all
those lovely linear projections of the mechanists back into the past go
straight down the drain! Reich's work in this area will be enlarged upon
later, but it is cited here as an example of yet another empirical assault on
scientific views that are mere beliefs.
Basic natural science will inevitably follow the lead
given by the maverick innovators, equipping itself gradually with the new
modes of thinking and cognition that at this time are congenital talents of
the mavericks. A new empiricism will, in time, spring up to verify and
objectify the fruits of such expanded cognition. Dr. Steiner was a sort of
archetype of the scientist of the future, with the old primeval wisdom living
within him in harmony with modern natural science. Man needs both scientific
method and new access to cosmic processes in the age that came upon him with
the UFOs.
The primeval wisdom should not be taken lightly or dismissed as mere myth. Archaeological research continually makes startling
discoveries of the human past. Aided by such modern techniques as
paleomagnetism and archeomagnetism, the human past is continually being
moved farther back. Powerful cultures are uncovered by modern techniques. In
1967, for example, the Hohokam culture in the American southwest was
unearthed. Suddenly, it was learned that Americans before Christ had learned
such amazing arts as the acid etching of ornaments and artifacts, and had
created masterful irrigation systems. Every decade verifies the presence of
intelligent humans on earth farther and farther back into the remote past
before written records.
The artifacts of such remote cultures bespeak a more
spiritualized man than walks the earth today. These men of old were not
sundered from cosmic forces and powers, and they precipitated their
perceptions of these cosmic forces and beings into the media then available,
such as clay and wood. Today, we will proceed with similar precipitations,
except that our media will be films of all kinds, videotapes, and wonders soon
to be born. In all these spheres of thought and work, Steiner's indications
earn new authority via scientific investigation. On every hand, what comes
forth has intimate relevance to ufology.
Functioning with a different mode of consciousness,
ancient human beings perceived and thought differently from us. We cannot think
their thoughts today. A significant point must now be advanced. In this book
we have shown how modern photochemistry, in combination with some knowledge of etherian physics and occult science, has objectified a range of form
adjacent to and probably interpenetrating our own. This range of form contains
typical UFO shapes.
Surely it is not a wild surmise or a preposterous notion
that ancient, closer-to-the-spiritual humans might have directly perceived
such forms -lost to untrained modern consciousness and perceptions. There is
powerful evidence that ancient people did perceive such forms. The evidence
consists of an indelible and comprehensive record of their perceptions
-side by side with other records that in themselves verify what accurate
observers and highly attuned artists these ancients were.
This evidence is in the form of cave drawings found in
south-western France and Cantabrian Spain, dating from 30,000 to 10,000 BC.
There are some seventy-two of these painted caverns, and the hundreds of
drawings of mammoths, bison, horses, ibex and other species are unequivocal
proof that the Stone Age men who carved, painted and sculpted these forms were
vibrantly functional in those aspects of soul and spiritual life that sustain
and inspire art. Truly, it is an astonishing record. Amid the animals appears a full spectrum of UFO shapes that might well have been lifted directly
from an official NICAP publication.
The distinguished French mathematician, Aime Michel,
internationally renowned also as a serious UFO researcher , has dealt with
this incredible Paleolithic art exhibit at length, in an article entitled Paleolithic
UFO Shapes. Published in the November-December 1969 issue of the Flying
Saucer Review, the article is required reading for all serious students
of ufology. Particularly is its content required by those who naively believe
that UFOs have been involved in earth life only in relatively modern times.
Pointing out that we have no direct knowledge of the 700 or
800 human generations responsible for this art, the brilliant Michel
emphasizes that these masterpieces are still today numbered among the high
peaks of world art. Independently of what I have set down here regarding the
perceptions of ancient men, Aime Michel describes his own reactions on visiting the caves:
"Entering the cave at Lascaux is like visiting the
Parthenon or Sistine Chapel (emphasis added). Every time I have been there
I have seen the same impressive spectacle: the crowd of visitors, chattering,
passes into semi-darkness. And then the walls are lit up, and suddenly all is
silence: 15,000 years after the deaths of those who painted them, the pictures
still produce the effect of a sublime presence that imposes respect for its
genius, and prompts us to meditation and contemplation. The men who fashioned
these masterpieces may lie beneath the dust of the centuries; but at the very
first glance we understand that, if there is something in us that escapes
death, that something is there, on that white stone, and it will remain there
until the end of the world."
Aime Michel is that rarest of scientific thinkers, the
formally trained and accomplished man whose feeling world remains vitally alive.
Thus we may see from the above quotation that the distinguished Frenchman was
able to come into full contact with the spirit behind this Paleolithic art.
The scientist in him, however, does not dream or lose vigilance for a moment.
Michel immediately raises as a scientist surely must the question of the
degree of confidence that can be placed in the accuracy of these cave drawings. Since the animal forms are as well known to modern man as to the
Paleolithic artists and they appear intermingled with the UFO forms
the
accuracy of both is self-evident. Says Michel:
"A mere glance gives us the answer. It is art of an
admirably representational quality. The painters at Lascaux, Rouffignac and
Altamira possessed a sureness of vision and of execution that is comparable to
the great painters of the Renaissance, and that, by its realism and its
movement and at times even its humor, is greatly superior to all that has been
bequeathed to us by the Classical and Near Eastern worlds of antiquity."
The unknown objects portrayed by the Paleolithic
artists can therefore be regarded as accurate recordings of what
those artists perceived. Discs, doughnuts, large fusiform shapes accompanied
by lines of small discs a la Adamski, ventlas with ladders, ventlas trailing vapors, and objects closely resembling
America's Own Apollo Lunar Landing Module (circa 1969) are all there. In
short, it is a collection of shapes indistinguishable from many UFOs reported
and photographed in the 20th century.
That ancient men saw and drew UFOs can therefore hardly be
doubted, although as Michel points out in his article, it is only the UFO
explanation of these otherwise unknown forms that is fantastic to the
orthodox mind. These retarded spirits prefer eternal enigmas to explanations
that will bring better understanding of life processes. Better sterility and
deadness, with its illusory safety, than life from space perceived and
recorded by ancient men.
This collection of Paleolithic UFO art, and its clear implications, leads us back to one of the original postulates in this book. When
heretofore invisible organisms and other objects started to become visible
sporadically with the electricalization of civilization and especially with
the advent of high-powered pulsed radiation we were forced to consider a
cardinal point: if invisible but present now, then why not invisible and
present always? Expanding human consciousness and changing human
cognition will lead inevitably to the acceptance of this central truth. By
contrast, the ships-from-other-planets theory, with its two-plus-two
reasoning and no demand to stretch either consciousness or our means of
knowing things, hardly seems worthy of the enlightened human mind. Paleolithic
man knew UFOs were here.
Dr. Rudolf Steiner has also provided a comprehensive outline
of etherian physics -an area of thought without whose content ufology cannot
possibly move forward. Major mysteries of terrestrial life, as well as
fundamental relationships between man and microcosm and the macrocosm of
which he is both part and product, may be gradually understood via etherian
physics. Without such knowledge, UFOs will continue not only as a mystery to
mankind, but also as a prolific source of illusion.
The most succinct and comprehensive presentation of etherian
physics from the Anthroposophical point of view has been compiled by Dr. Guenther Wachsmuth, Rudolf Steiner's biographer for the
final twenty-five years of his life, and also his secretary. Dr. Wachsmuth's
monumental book, Etheric Formative Forces in Cosmos, Earth and Man, was
published by the Anthroposophic Press of New York in 1932. One of the
masterpieces of esoteric writing, the acquisition of this book is worth
whatever effort the student must expend. As might be expected, it is out of
print, although thus far no government has ordered it burned. Systematic study
of this book will provide the keys to the shapes and forms of all natural
objects -including UFOs. Fortified by this knowledge, the ufologist will
be able to "read" correctly the signs in the skies, and in this way
find his way around popular dogmas.
In order to make the subtle but important distinction
between the ethers and the formative forces, researchers should also acquire
and study The Four Ethers, by Ernst Marti, MD.* This small but
invaluable book supplements, augments, extends and clarifies the presentation
of Dr. Wachsmuth.
*Published in 1984 by Schaumberg
Publications, 1432 South Mohawk Drive, Roselle, Illinois 60193.
True to the innate proclivities of mechanistic thought -
which embraces immobile, stationary and fixed entities with strangling
enthusiasm -most conventional thought has held the ether to be stationary
.Ether is thought of only in the singular in official science. In more
recent times, con- cepts of a mobile ether have gained wider currency, with
this medium seen to participate actively in processes of motion essential to
any valid conception of cosmic workings.
The motion of the ether is beyond question to anyone who has
extended his powers of cognition beyond the arbitrary boundaries set by
conventional philosophy. Such persons, including myself, perceive basic
etheric workings directly in the perception of physical force fields around
living organisms and in such obvious external happenings as the flimmerings
that are perpetually present in both the day and night
sky. All such persons accept out of their own experience that what Dr. Steiner
and Dr. Reich say of the ethers is true, namely, that they move a priori.
The ether moves, without doubt, and
acceptance of this premise has opened to man the control of planetary weather, of which more later. Steiner and Wachsmuth present the ether as seven-fold,
and four essential ethers reveal them-selves in physical space-time
processes, according to these two brilliant men. The four ethers are:
1 .Warmth ether
2. Light ether
3. Chemical ether (AKA sound ether and number ether)
4. Life ether
These four ethers have evolved
phylogenetically out of each other, so that we may consider that warmth ether
has evolved into light ether, light ether into chemical ether, and chemical
ether into life ether. Empirical findings arising out of Wilhelm Reich's
discoveries already partially confirm this. For example, orgone energy
which
may be equated with the chemical ether can be made to luminate in vacuo and
in nature through weather control apparatus. Orgone accumulators literally
create warmth "out of nothing". Thus, light and warmth are contained
in orgone energy, i.e., chemical ether. Etherian physics is thus already
demonstrating empirically its own theoretical basis.
Thus it is seen that the characteristic of
the mutual relationship between the ethers postulated by Wachsmuth and Steiner
that the more highly evolved ether always contains in itself the properties
of the ether(s) from which it evolved has already been externally
demonstrated. Each "new" ether, however, is a new formative force
with its own innate activities and properties. Understanding this
relationship, and living with it, naturally requires a mobility of thought
which contemporary higher education usually extinguishes.
Life ether contains in itself the other
three, chemical ether contains in itself the preceding two, out of which
evolution has taken place. On page 40 in his book, Dr. Wachsmuth states:
"Only when, through having penetrated into the substance-world, it has
been modified, may a higher ether, for instance, be reduced as it were to the
action of a lower. Warmth ether from which the other ether forces have
evolved, has in turn come into being out of purely spiritual states outside of
time and space."
This at once gives us a theoretical link to
earlier states of evolution, and to the gradual condensation of our world
through countless millennia. The glowing gas ball of Kant- La Place, as it
were, had an illustrious and long prior etheric history. Dr. Wachsmuth's
statements regarding evolution of the ethers themselves are open today to
direct empirical proof in some areas, such as is provided by Dr. Wilhelm
Reich's orgone energy accumulator. By perpetually producing heat "out
of nothing" it directly contradicts the Second Law of Thermodynamics.*
From the point of view of etherian physics, the orgone accumulator squeezes
the warmth ether out of concentrated chemical ether. Incomprehensible to the
old knowledge, Reich's invention yields to the basic theories of etherian
physics.
* The Second Law of Thermodynamics is a
statistical law, inasmuch as no exception has ever been found to it until
Reich devised the orgone accumulator. The rooting of the Second Law is now
no longer statistical, but neurotic, since the orgone accumulator
proves its basic contentions false in certain arrangements of materials.
Ingenious and enterprising young men will
carry all this forward. Unlike the Old Knowledge, the comprehensive structure
of etherian physics provides them with a chart for their experimental work.
There can be little doubt that the science of tomorrow will penetrate these
principles and bring forth a new technology indeed, it has already begun.
The four ethers as carriers as carriers of
formative forces, have the following characteristics:
1. The warmth manifests in heat, which
etherian physics ** regards as the fourth state of matter, and not a mere mode
of motion affecting the other three
states. My photographs of the atmospheric bioforms could not have been made
without heat-sensitive film. We have recorded animate things extant
and conscious in this fourth state of matter. These objects were
photographed in situ, and are an adventurer's contribution to a valid
new conception of heat as the fourth state of matter. The warmth ether tends
to produce objects of spherical form, i.e., it shapes matter into globes. I
have more than my share of globular critters on both stills and movies.
2. The light ether reaches the direct
physical perception of man as the normal light of the terrestrial environment.
When light ether acts unimpeded in nature, it produces triangular forms. In
field experiments with the cloudbuster, triangular forks of lightning have
been produced on many occasions, in another break-in to the experimental side
of etherian physics made possible by Reich's discoveries.
3. The chemical ether or sound ether,
also known as the number ether, is active in chemical processes of all kinds,
and also transmits sound to the human ear -the tones of the audible world
around us. Sound has tremendous formative power, well illustrated externally
by the Chladni sound figures. In these experiments, dust laid upon a tightly
stretched diaphragm adopts varying forms in accordance with varying tones.
Physically audible tones nevertheless are an
infinitesimal part of the total tone activity vibrating everywhere in space,
the waves produced by the forces of chemical ether . Sound or chemical ether
gives form to the natural things of our world. In nature, the chemical ether,
when working unimpeded, produces half-moon forms. Centripetal in action, it is
interlocked with all the phenomena of cold and contraction.
4. The life ether is the most highly
evolved of the four, and also the most complex and diverse in its essential
qualities. Life ether is radiated to the earth by the sun. Like the chemical
ether, it is a suctional, centripetal force -a force that draws inwards. The
formative power of the life ether, when working unimpeded in substance,
manifests in the square shape.
** For a highly
intelligent and comprehensive approach to heat as the fourth state of matter,
see Man or Matter, and The Warmth Course by Rudolf Steiner,
Mercury Press, 241 Hungary Hollow Road, Spring Valley, NY 10977.
Each of the four ethers manifests naturally
in its own color. The colors are:
Warmth ether - Red
Light ether - Yellow
Chemical ether - Blue
Life ether - Purple-violet
Each of the four ethers has a natural spatial
tendency. These spatial tendencies are:
Warmth Ether - Radial,
expansive, centrifugal
Light Ether - Radial,
expansive, centrifugal
Chemical Ether - Suctional,
contractive, centripetal
Life Ether - Suctional, contractive, centripetal
Each of the four ethers manifests in its own
natural state of matter. These states are:
Warmth Ether - Heat
Light Ether - Gaseous or
aeriform
Chemical Ether - Liquid or
fluid
Life Ether - Solid
Anyone who has wondered why or how different
colored flowers of the same type come into being should inspect not just the
color of the flowers, but the shape of the leaves. The formative signature of
the appropriate ether will be found in the differing shapes of the leaves, i.e., the yellow flower's leaf will have a more triangular form than the red
flower of the same kind. Try it and see.
Before proceeding further with this sketch of
fundamental etherian physics, a practical observation may be made here that is
not without its fascination. The majority of the photographs of UFOs made by
me through the years, using heat-sensitive film, reveal spheroidal objects.
In the 1958 motion pictures made by Dr. Woods and myself, the highly mobile
forms captured were essentially spheroidal. Thus do we see how etherian
physics, even in this elementary state, provides new tools with which to
evaluate and study UFO photographs from any source. They are, after
all, and as Meade Layne said over four
decades ago, "ether ships" that we are pursuing those of them that
are ships.
Another point arises from the obvious and
lawful connection of UFOs to etherian physics. A purported photographic
expert who is without expertise in etherian physics should recognize that if
he wants to evaluate photos of ether ships, he must acquire and apply a
knowledge of etherian physics. His valid conventional experience is not
undermined by such knowledge, but rather, made amenable to both extension
and expansion.
Etherian physics sees the earth as a gigantic
living organism. Like all living things, the earth "breathes." The
planetary breathing cycle is diurnal. Chemical ether is inhaled and exhaled by
the earth, with marked and measurable effects upon the atmosphere. Many of the
central mysteries of meteorology are bound up in this breathing process.
The earth and its atmosphere consist of four
spherical, concentric and interpenetrating spheres. In each of these spheres,
one of the four kinds of ether is predominant. Light ether and warmth ether
function mainly in the atmosphere and heat mantle of the earth. The chemical
ether and life ether predominate in the liquid and solid matter of the earth
respectively. These distributions of forces and their influences are the
normal, primary terrestrial state.
Let alone, the earth would quickly stratify
these ether-spheres and tend toward fixity. The sun is the chief force in
chaoticizing these ethers. By constantly roiling these ethers and the
formative forces of which they are the carriers, the sun produces their
dynamic intermingling and interpenetration, out of which comes life with all
its rhythms and diverse forms.
During the night, the earth re-establishes
something akin to the normal primary distribution of the ethers. Contraction,
stillness and chill characterize nocturnal conditions. Human life sinks to its
lowest ebb during the night, especially between midnight and dawn. The human
being thereby reflects, in his inert and unconscious organism, the quiescent
condition of that portion of the planet upon which he is living. Then comes
the morning, the sun's influence, and the
remanifestation of the life forces.
The old cosmologies saw everywhere in
creation the deeds of all manner of divinities, the spirits of the ethers. The
immortal Kepler, kinsman and antecedent of the modern etherian physicist, saw
the universe as the body of a gigantic spiritual being, so that to Kepler it
was a living cosmos. Nineteenth-century science expunged from its rubric all
such concepts. The physical-material was considered sufficient, so immense was
its impact on the human mind with the rise of measurement. Goethe's conception
of the earth- breathing process, physically verified in the morning and
evening "double wave" of pressure at the barometer, was among the
brilliant insights into natural workings ignored at this time. The stampede
for mechanical interpretations of nature trampled under all pioneer efforts at
functional enlightenment.
The major etheric force involved in the
breathing processes of the earth as a living organism is the chemical ether.
We shall find ourselves intimately concerned with this ether in understanding
UFOs, not only at this break-in stage, but also for many decades to come.
Apparatus has been designed by certain earthmen to concentrate and manipulate
this particular ether, and we had best therefore understand its basic action
in the daily life of the earth.
Many mysteries of the earth, atmosphere and
weather become accessible through this knowledge and the apparatus based on
its application. Beginning at dawn, the planet earth exhales the chemical
ether into the atmosphere, the latter being, as we have seen in our
preliminary tabulation, the normal sphere of activity of the light ether. All
the sensory testimony of the dawn, sunrise and immediately post-sunrise
period confirm the exhalation process. A cardinal one: water vapor arising
from the surface of lakes and rivers.
This exhalation process continues until the
noon period, by which time the exhaled chemical ether extends up into the
heights of the light ether sphere. Barometric pressure reaches an obvious
minimum. The earth organism, like anything living, then inhales the chemical
ether back into itself, completing the inhalation process just before sunrise.
The moisture-producing, fluid-influencing
chemical ether is responsible for such seemingly disparate phenomena as
morning and evening fogs and mist, fluctuations in soil humidity, barometric
pressure changes, increases and diminutions of potential gradient, and the
rising and falling of plant sap.
All these happenings, and many others, are
not isolated, discrete phenomena. Man has made them so. In truth, these
phenomena are functionally unified by virtue of being produced by the
macro telluric breathing process. Those who think today in terms of
"antigravity" a term that exemplifies man's brain-bound,
point-based consciousness may see plant sap rise and fall daily in billions
of plants. Relating this enormous lift to a force capable of lifting a
spaceship should not be beyond the capacity of even a modest mentality.
Most of the riddles of atmospheric physics
can be understood through the earth-breathing process, and the role played
in this process by the chemical ether. Dr. Wachsmuth summarizes these
electrostatic, fluidic, barometric, thermic and biological factors on pages
45-56 of his book, written in 1932. In the interim, virtually all of this has
been made empirically accessible through the discoveries of Dr. Wilhelm Reich.
Dr. Wachsmuth's book should be studied today with this revolutionary fact in
mind.
Dr. Reich discovered the chemical ether as a
physical force in 1939-40. He called this force orgone energy, but etherian
physicists will find in Reich's empirically-established properties of orgone
energy the traditional properties of chemical ether. The blue color, the
affinity for the fluid state of matter and the ability to produce thermic,
barometric, electrostatic and biological effects are all there. What Dr.
Wachsmuth has written has therefore long since come down to the empirical
level, and the scientist who does not today understand at least some of these
functions is simply out of date. A new generation of young physicists, strong
enough to break with the Old Knowledge, will explore these things fully in the
next few decades.
The mechanistic notion that the earth is a
dead ball of matter has paralyzed
creative thought in official science for generations. The earth is a living
organism. Breathing processes are carried out diurnally, as a terrestrial,
organic function, only partly dependent upon cosmic intervention. The endless
cycle of fixity and chaoticization is what gives rise to, and also sustains,
the life processes of the planet.
The side of the earth remote from the sun
naturally contracts, and the four etheric spheres tend to stratify. Striving
toward the sun, living organisms from the plant kingdom upward to man
contribute to a mighty etheric torque that literally turns the dark side of
the earth back toward the sun. Under the sun's influence, the etheric spheres
that became stratified during the night are once again brought to chaos. This
is a crude sketch of the etheric formative forces and their diverse roles in
living organisms, including the planet Earth itself, and the basic source of
the earth's rotation.
The earth may thus be seen rotating behind an
etheric envelope that moves around the earth slightly faster than the earth
itself. Dr. Wilhelm Reich, in his discovery of the atmospheric orgone energy ,
independently determined the presence of this basic west-to-east movement. He
called it the orgone envelope of the earth. In his time, he was called
mad and paranoid, but not long after his death cameras aboard the satellites
were photographing the envelope, while mystified scientists speculated on what
it was.
Reich likened the earth, in its spinning
progress through the heavens, to a ball being spun by a stream of water moving
faster than itself. From this perceptive description originating wholly in
his own needle-sharp observational powers and unconnected with any esoteric
sources Dr. Reich opened the pathway to weather control as a reality of this
age. This work is now far along toward providing and perpetuating a
life-giving environment, but everything that is done to press it forward is at
the risk of the life and liberty of the pioneers. America is a hostile
environment for such work, not innately, but for reasons that will become all
too clear in the next few chapters.
The etheric earth is the driving power, and
induces the earth's rotation. Out of the etheric formative forces and their workings
on matter come the colors and forms of all living creatures. From the highest
to the lowest, all are ruled by these forces. The ethers and the formative
forces give rise to the grand design of nature. Artists are the only general
class of humans to have at least partial access to this grand panorama. The
full perception and understanding of these forces require the use of untapped,
unutilized and latent powers of the human mind.
The scientist of the future will perceive,
understand and work with all of it, just as Steiner indicated. Living
processes will be paramount. On this account, it should be no surprise that
the basic technical breakthrough into this realm came from a scientist who was
a biologist in the highest and best sense Dr. Wilhelm Reich. He found the
pathway from psychology to biology, and in the process made the study of the
etheric formative forces possible empirically
the anchorage for the new kind
of thinking that is upon mankind.
The scientist of the future will not direct
his energies to determining what a rose is, or of what a rose consists. Rather
will his labors be invested in determining how the rose arises. The question
of the future is not "What is a rose?" but "How does a rose
come about?" Man is about to ask, at long last, how a rose achieves its
particular form and color. The scientist of the future will "read"
the expression of the formative forces in all living things as a determined
handful of them do today. The challenge of etherian physics is immense and
thrilling.
Ufology will undoubtedly be a key aspect of
tomorrow's sciences, since it is a bioenergetic wellspring from which much New
Knowledge will flow. UFO investigators of our own time cannot pass beyond the
bewildering, enigma-ridden periphery of their subject because they have not
thus far tackled etherian physics. Most evidence of UFO presence gathered to
date can be interpreted accurately only with an understanding of etherian
physics. Here lies the key to spaceship technology and to the new
communications the means by which man will enter into commerce with
other-world entities.
Gifted people have already penetrated far
deeper into some of these mysteries than most people interested in UFOs even
suspect. The reward of these bold ones has been uniformly depressing: branding
as charlatans, crackpots and quacks. Dr. Steiner's work the miniscule portion
of it described herein helps us to understand and accept on new ground the
work of these innovators.
The loneliness of the gifted individuals who
left the beaten path and went off on their own across new frontiers has been
appalling. Later generations will appreciate their sacrifices. In the new
realms they penetrated usually unbeknown to them lurk the subhuman,
nonhuman and the superhuman intelligences that now reach into and play upon
human evolution with ever-increasing force and purpose. We will show that man will need more to survive this challenge than the
fraud and flummery of contemporary scientism.
