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'''Undines''' (probably from {{Latin|unda}} "wave"; {{French|ondine}} "mermaid") or '''water spirits'''<ref name=ghosts>The designation -''ghosts''' is strictly speaking not correct, since they do not have an independent [[I]], thus no [[individual]]s [[spirit]].</ref>, the elementary beings of the liquid, are elementary beings who emerged as a cut-off from the hierarchy of the Archangels {{GZ||136|64}}. They are virgin water beings. [[w:Paracelsus|Paracelsus]] counts them among the nymphs. Undines live everywhere in humid water, in forest lakes, waterfalls etc., and work in the leaf region of plants. As "world chemists" they bind and dissolve substances and carry the [[sound ether]] into the [[plant]]. They also reveal themselves wherever the [[plant kingdom]] and the [[mineral kingdom]] touch each other, for example at a trickling spring where the water runs over mossy stones. They unfold their fruitful effect especially in the falling rain, while in the vapour rising from the warmth they are as if paralysed and, as it were, killed {{GZ|265|357f}}.
'''Undines''' (probably from {{Latin|unda}} "wave"; {{French|ondine}} "mermaid") or '''water spirits'''<ref name=ghosts>The designation -''ghosts''' is strictly speaking not correct, since they do not have an independent [[I]], thus no [[individual]]s [[spirit]].</ref>, the elementary beings of the liquid, are elementary beings who emerged as a cut-off from the hierarchy of the Archangels {{GZ||136|64}}. They are virgin water beings. [[w:Paracelsus|Paracelsus]] counts them among the nymphs. Undines live everywhere in humid water, in forest lakes, waterfalls etc., and work in the leaf region of plants. As "world chemists" they bind and dissolve substances and carry the [[sound ether]] into the [[plant]]. They also reveal themselves wherever the [[plant kingdom]] and the [[mineral kingdom]] touch each other, for example at a trickling spring where the water runs over mossy stones. They unfold their fruitful effect especially in the falling rain, while in the vapour rising from the warmth they are as if paralysed and, as it were, killed {{GZ||265|357f}}.


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{{GZ|Where the stone touches the spring, there embody themselves the beings bound to the element of water: the undines.|98|91}}

Revision as of 12:09, 22 September 2021

Undines (probably from Latin: unda "wave"; French: ondine "mermaid") or water spirits[1], the elementary beings of the liquid, are elementary beings who emerged as a cut-off from the hierarchy of the Archangels (Lit.:GA 136, p. 64). They are virgin water beings. Paracelsus counts them among the nymphs. Undines live everywhere in humid water, in forest lakes, waterfalls etc., and work in the leaf region of plants. As "world chemists" they bind and dissolve substances and carry the sound ether into the plant. They also reveal themselves wherever the plant kingdom and the mineral kingdom touch each other, for example at a trickling spring where the water runs over mossy stones. They unfold their fruitful effect especially in the falling rain, while in the vapour rising from the warmth they are as if paralysed and, as it were, killed (Lit.:GA 265, p. 357f).

„Where the stone touches the spring, there embody themselves the beings bound to the element of water: the undines.“ (Lit.:GA 98, p. 91)

According to Rudolf Steiner, the supreme being, the king of the Undines, is Varuna, of whom the Vedas report and who belongs to the Devas, i.e. to the third hierarchy. (Lit.:GA 93a, p. 220)

The Undines have an etheric body as their uppermost member, then a physical body and below that two more members belonging to the third and second elementary kingdoms (see also → Members of the elementary beings).

Literature
References to the work of Rudolf Steiner follow Rudolf Steiner's Collected Works (CW or GA), Rudolf Steiner Verlag, Dornach/Switzerland, unless otherwise stated.
Email: verlag@steinerverlag.com URL: www.steinerverlag.com.
Index to the Complete Works of Rudolf Steiner - Aelzina Books
A complete list by Volume Number and a full list of known English translations you may also find at Rudolf Steiner's Collected Works
Rudolf Steiner Archive - The largest online collection of Rudolf Steiner's books, lectures and articles in English.
Rudolf Steiner Audio - Recorded and Read by Dale Brunsvold
steinerbooks.org - Anthroposophic Press Inc. (USA)
Rudolf Steiner Handbook - Christian Karl's proven standard work for orientation in Rudolf Steiner's Collected Works for free download as PDF.

References

  1. ↑ The designation -ghosts' is strictly speaking not correct, since they do not have an independent I, thus no individuals spirit.
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