Salt process

Salt crystal (sodium chloride) as an example of a salt process that has come to rest

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The salt process' is one of the three fundamental processes of alchemical Tria Principia. The sal (Latin: salt) of the alchemists stands for the solid, form-giving, stable principle. The earth element works in it. Its material representatives, in which this process has come to rest externally, are namely all incombustible, stable, water-soluble salts, which are obtained from the starting material by ashing (calcinatio). On the physical level, the salt process corresponds to the ionic bond known from chemistry.

The salt process in humans and plants

In the threefold human organism, the salt processes are concentrated primarily in the nerve-sense system. In the plant, which in a sense is the inverted human being, the salt processes work most strongly in the roots.

The salt process in the course of the year

When the Tria Principia are most separated from each other in the deep winter time, around Christmas, the salt processes can unfold most purely in the depths of the Earth. The salts of the Earth are permeable to everything spiritual and in them the remnants of the lunar forces remaining in the Earth have a life-giving effect.

„This salt process is also the most important thing for the sprouting life, for the roots of the plant, as they form from the germs, are simply dependent for their entire growth on the relationship in which they stand to the salts, to the salt formations in the soil. What the Earth's soil contains in salts in the broadest sense of the word, what deposit formations are present within the Earth's soil, that is what permeates the roots with a substance, what actually makes the root the root, that is, the earthly basis of the plant-like.“ (Lit.:GA 229, p. 27)

Literature

• Rudolf Steiner: Das Miterleben des Jahreslaufes in vier kosmischen Imaginationen, GA 229 (1999), ISBN 3-7274-2290-4 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org

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