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'''Lime''' or '''limestone''' belongs to the sedimentary rocks and consists mainly of the minerals [[w:calcite|calcite]] and [[w:aragonite|aragonite]], which are two different forms of crystallisation of [[w:calcium carbonate|calcium carbonate]] (CaCO<sub>3</sub>). Other minerals are often added in varying proportions, such as [[w:dolomite|dolomite]] (CaMg(CO<sub>3</sub>)<sub>2</sub>), which, in addition to [[calcium]], contains [[magnesium]], which is open to light and is also found in the green leaves (chlorophyll) of plants, where it enables photosynthesis; other minerals include [[w:clay mineral|clay mineral]]s, [[quartz]], [[w:gypsum|gypsum]] and others. Lime rich in clay minerals is called '''marl'''.
'''Lime''' or '''limestone''' belongs to the sedimentary rocks and consists mainly of the [[mineral]]s [[w:calcite|calcite]] and [[w:aragonite|aragonite]], which are two different forms of crystallisation of [[w:calcium carbonate|calcium carbonate]] (CaCO<sub>3</sub>). Other minerals are often added in varying proportions, such as [[w:dolomite|dolomite]] (CaMg(CO<sub>3</sub>)<sub>2</sub>), which, in addition to [[calcium]], contains [[magnesium]], which is open to light and is also found in the green leaves ([[w:chlorophyll|chlorophyll]]) of [[plant]]s, where it enables [[w:photosynthesis|photosynthesis]]; other minerals include [[w:clay mineral|clay mineral]]s, [[quartz]], [[w:gypsum|gypsum]] and others. Lime rich in clay minerals is called '''marl'''.
 
== The lime process and its relationship to the astral body ==
 
Now, lime in nature outside is mainly formed from animal deposits, from shells of mussels, corals, snail shells, etc., so it has a strong relationship to the nature of [[animal]]s, whereas it is of comparatively little significance for plants. We find it in the exoskeleton of lower animals and - in a much more internalised form - in the inner skeleton of higher animals and humans. This can already put us on the track to which lime is particularly related - it is the [[astral body]], the drive and desire body, by which the animals (and the [[human being]]) differ from the plants. In fact, [[Rudolf Steiner]] very aptly described lime as the " fellow full of desire" {{GZ||327|83}}.
 
{{GZ|The lime actually has a wonderful kinship with the human world of desire.|327|82}}
 
Lime ties the awake astral body (and in humans also the awake [[I]]) to the [[physical body]]. A too strong lime process therefore also leads to sleeplessness.
 
The animal form is entirely an expression of the astral urges and desires which are strongly under the influence of [[Lucifer]]. It would have a species-typical basic character through certain prominent instinctive and desirous forces, but would still be very fleeting and fluidly changeable in its overall form. In the case of lower animals, such as sea jellyfish, this is still largely the case. The more highly developed an animal is, i.e. the more intensively it is seized by the astral body, the stronger the calcification process also becomes and the more strongly the whole animal form is solidified first by the formation of the outer skeleton and then further by the formation of the inner skeleton. With this, however, a firm limit is also drawn to the effects of Lucifer. The lime binds the animals and the human being into a more or less solid form. This solidified figure is, as Rudolf Steiner makes clear, an imagination of [[Ahriman]]. Ahriman has a strong relationship with lime. Seen in this way, each individual animal form expresses a very specific relationship between the volatilising Luciferic and the solidifying Ahrimanic forces, although the Ahrimanic forces have increasingly gained the upper hand in the course of the earth's evolution. This also applies to the human form, which remains afflicted with the original sin as long as the influence of the two adversary powers is not brought into the right balance by the individual I. The human form has to be completely and utterly unchanged. The human form must be completely transformed into the expression of the individual I. Without the Christ power, however, this individualisation of the human form is not possible, for only the [[Christ]] is strong enough to carry the I-power into the bone system in order to have a formative effect there and to overcome the over-strong influence of Ahriman. Only the thoroughly individualised human form can later be so spiritualised that it becomes the permanent possession of the I. This throws a clear light on the question of [[resurrection]].
 
The lower animals still resist very strongly against the increasing ahrimanic sclerotisation caused by the astral body, which is actually an incipient process of death. They try to expel the calcareous forces and push them out of their insides to the periphery, where they harden into the outer skeleton. In this way, they retain a comparatively much greater inner vitality than the higher animals, but in return they develop only a very dull [[consciousness]]. A good example of this are the mussels, which are highly alive inside but hardly conscious. The formation of the exoskeleton also clearly shows the rounding shaping tendency of lime. The lime creates a rounded body cavity that is strongly delimited from the environment, in the interior of which the [[life force]]s can only develop in a very restrained way, while in contrast, the plants can expand more or less freely and unhindered into space with their growth forces.
 
In the human being, too, lime causes centrifugal, excretory processes and does so in different ways in the three parts of the [[threefold human organism]]. In the [[metabolic-limb system]] lime has an expelling effect on the fluids, in the [[rhythmic system]] on the air, i.e. it is the driving force of exhalation, and in the [[nerve-sense system]] it has an expelling effect on the heat, it brings about, as it were, a kind of cooling of the nerve-sense organisation. Lime, which is an essential representative of the [[earth element]], thus drives out the other elements and the forces connected with them and thereby makes the organism as a whole more earthly, more related to the earth.
 
{{GZ|The carbonic calcium brought into the human organism has the peculiar tendency to have an excretory effect. Calcium supplied to the human organism is something that is excretory everywhere in the human organism. I should like to say that in the lowest human being it has a competitor in silver, but there too it has an excretory effect; so that lime everywhere excretes both aqueous and aerial matter from the organism. The lime forces which are localised in the human organism are also all that underlies human exhalation. Lime has within itself the force that acts as a motor for exhalation. And again it has in it those forces which drive out the heat in the nerve-sense organisation, bring about a kind of cooling of the nerve-sense organisation. So in the lower man, in the metabolic-limb system, it works to expel the fluids, in the rhythmic man it works to expel the air substances in the nerve-sense organisation it works to expel the heat ether - or the heat. In each of these relationships phosphorus acts in opposition to lime (see below). Lime binds, so to speak, the awake I and the awake astral body to the physical body. That is to say, I suffer from insomnia.|319|121f}}


== Literature ==
== Literature ==

Revision as of 06:58, 8 April 2022

Lime or limestone belongs to the sedimentary rocks and consists mainly of the minerals calcite and aragonite, which are two different forms of crystallisation of calcium carbonate (CaCO3). Other minerals are often added in varying proportions, such as dolomite (CaMg(CO3)2), which, in addition to calcium, contains magnesium, which is open to light and is also found in the green leaves (chlorophyll) of plants, where it enables photosynthesis; other minerals include clay minerals, quartz, gypsum and others. Lime rich in clay minerals is called marl.

The lime process and its relationship to the astral body

Now, lime in nature outside is mainly formed from animal deposits, from shells of mussels, corals, snail shells, etc., so it has a strong relationship to the nature of animals, whereas it is of comparatively little significance for plants. We find it in the exoskeleton of lower animals and - in a much more internalised form - in the inner skeleton of higher animals and humans. This can already put us on the track to which lime is particularly related - it is the astral body, the drive and desire body, by which the animals (and the human being) differ from the plants. In fact, Rudolf Steiner very aptly described lime as the " fellow full of desire" (Lit.:GA 327, p. 83).

„The lime actually has a wonderful kinship with the human world of desire.“ (Lit.:GA 327, p. 82)

Lime ties the awake astral body (and in humans also the awake I) to the physical body. A too strong lime process therefore also leads to sleeplessness.

The animal form is entirely an expression of the astral urges and desires which are strongly under the influence of Lucifer. It would have a species-typical basic character through certain prominent instinctive and desirous forces, but would still be very fleeting and fluidly changeable in its overall form. In the case of lower animals, such as sea jellyfish, this is still largely the case. The more highly developed an animal is, i.e. the more intensively it is seized by the astral body, the stronger the calcification process also becomes and the more strongly the whole animal form is solidified first by the formation of the outer skeleton and then further by the formation of the inner skeleton. With this, however, a firm limit is also drawn to the effects of Lucifer. The lime binds the animals and the human being into a more or less solid form. This solidified figure is, as Rudolf Steiner makes clear, an imagination of Ahriman. Ahriman has a strong relationship with lime. Seen in this way, each individual animal form expresses a very specific relationship between the volatilising Luciferic and the solidifying Ahrimanic forces, although the Ahrimanic forces have increasingly gained the upper hand in the course of the earth's evolution. This also applies to the human form, which remains afflicted with the original sin as long as the influence of the two adversary powers is not brought into the right balance by the individual I. The human form has to be completely and utterly unchanged. The human form must be completely transformed into the expression of the individual I. Without the Christ power, however, this individualisation of the human form is not possible, for only the Christ is strong enough to carry the I-power into the bone system in order to have a formative effect there and to overcome the over-strong influence of Ahriman. Only the thoroughly individualised human form can later be so spiritualised that it becomes the permanent possession of the I. This throws a clear light on the question of resurrection.

The lower animals still resist very strongly against the increasing ahrimanic sclerotisation caused by the astral body, which is actually an incipient process of death. They try to expel the calcareous forces and push them out of their insides to the periphery, where they harden into the outer skeleton. In this way, they retain a comparatively much greater inner vitality than the higher animals, but in return they develop only a very dull consciousness. A good example of this are the mussels, which are highly alive inside but hardly conscious. The formation of the exoskeleton also clearly shows the rounding shaping tendency of lime. The lime creates a rounded body cavity that is strongly delimited from the environment, in the interior of which the life forces can only develop in a very restrained way, while in contrast, the plants can expand more or less freely and unhindered into space with their growth forces.

In the human being, too, lime causes centrifugal, excretory processes and does so in different ways in the three parts of the threefold human organism. In the metabolic-limb system lime has an expelling effect on the fluids, in the rhythmic system on the air, i.e. it is the driving force of exhalation, and in the nerve-sense system it has an expelling effect on the heat, it brings about, as it were, a kind of cooling of the nerve-sense organisation. Lime, which is an essential representative of the earth element, thus drives out the other elements and the forces connected with them and thereby makes the organism as a whole more earthly, more related to the earth.

„The carbonic calcium brought into the human organism has the peculiar tendency to have an excretory effect. Calcium supplied to the human organism is something that is excretory everywhere in the human organism. I should like to say that in the lowest human being it has a competitor in silver, but there too it has an excretory effect; so that lime everywhere excretes both aqueous and aerial matter from the organism. The lime forces which are localised in the human organism are also all that underlies human exhalation. Lime has within itself the force that acts as a motor for exhalation. And again it has in it those forces which drive out the heat in the nerve-sense organisation, bring about a kind of cooling of the nerve-sense organisation. So in the lower man, in the metabolic-limb system, it works to expel the fluids, in the rhythmic man it works to expel the air substances in the nerve-sense organisation it works to expel the heat ether - or the heat. In each of these relationships phosphorus acts in opposition to lime (see below). Lime binds, so to speak, the awake I and the awake astral body to the physical body. That is to say, I suffer from insomnia.“ (Lit.:GA 319, p. 121f)

Literature
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