Elementary world

The elementary world in the proper sense is the world of the four elements earth, water, air and fire and the elementary beings working them, which build up the physical world - seen, however, not with sensual but with spiritual organs of perception. In an extended sense, this expression is used as a synonym for the astral plane as a whole (Lit.:GA 116, p. 31), in the lower regions of which those astral beings are resident who reveal themselves through the four elements. In contrast to the sensuous world with its largely solidified forms, the elemental world is in constant motion and metamorphosis of form:

„The sensory world is the world of completed forms; the spirits of form reign in the sensory world. The elemental world is the world of mobility, the world of metamorphosis, of transformation. Just as one must continually transform oneself if one wants to feel oneself in the elementary world, so all beings continually transform themselves in the elementary world. There is no closed, no delimited form in the elementary world; everything is in perpetual metamorphosis.“ (Lit.:GA 147, p. 53)

Literature

• Rudolf Steiner: Ein Weg zur Selbsterkenntnis des Menschen, GA 16 (2004), ISBN 3-7274-0160-5 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
• Rudolf Steiner: Die Schwelle der geistigen Welt, GA 17 (1987), ISBN 3-7274-0170-2 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
• Rudolf Steiner: Mythen und Sagen. Okkulte Zeichen und Symbole, GA 101 (1992) {{Lectures|101}
• Rudolf Steiner: Der Christus-Impuls und die Entwickelung des Ich-Bewußtseins, GA 116 (1982)
• Rudolf Steiner: Makrokosmos und Mikrokosmos, GA 119 (1988), Sechster Vortrag, Wien, 26. März 1910
• Rudolf Steiner: Die Geheimnisse der Schwelle, GA 147 (1997), ISBN 3-7274-1470-7 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
• Rudolf Steiner: Die spirituellen Hintergründe der äußeren Welt. Der Sturz der Geister der Finsternis, GA 177 (1999), ISBN 3-7274-1771-4 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
• Rudolf Steiner: Aus den Inhalten der esoterischen Stunden, Band II: 1910 – 1912, GA 266b (1996), ISBN 3-7274-2662-4 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org

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