Root chakra
The four-petalled lotus flower, the root chakra (Sanskrit: मूलाधार Mūlādhāra "the root support", from mūla "root" and ādhāra "support"), is the lowest of the seven main soul organs of perception in the human astral body.
According to the findings of the German mystic and Jakob Böhme disciple Johann Georg Gichtel, the root chakra is under the direct influence of the lunar sphere. According to modern yoga teachings, its colour is red.
In the root chakra rests the kundalini force, symbolised by a snake coiled in three and a half coils, which connects the physical body with the astral body throughout earthly life. Once awakened, it can become the highest power of love or pure desire increased to the highest degree. This is also indicated by the two snakes of the Mercury staff, which also stand for the unconscious (black) and for the conscious (white) side of the Kundalini force. In Goethe's fairy tale of the green snake and the beautiful lily, this deeply unconscious force is represented by the green snake. When the upper parts of the astral body are lifted out of the body during sleep, it appears to the clairvoyant gaze as a fine silvery shining ribbon that joins the body in the spleen region. At death, this silver cord breaks and the astral body can no longer return to the body.
See also
Literature
- Rudolf Steiner: Wie erlangt man Erkenntnisse der höheren Welten?, GA 10 (1993) English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
- Rudolf Steiner: Die Geheimwissenschaft im Umriß, GA 13 (1989) English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
- Rudolf Steiner: Kosmogonie, GA 94 (1979), Leipzig, 9. Juli 1906 (Zwölfter Vortrag aus dem Zyklus Populärer Okkultismus) English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
- Rudolf Steiner: Vor dem Tore der Theosophie, GA 95 (1978) English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
- Rudolf Steiner: Anthroposophie – Psychosophie – Pneumatosophie, GA 115 (2001), ISBN 3-7274-1150-3 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
- Rudolf Steiner: Okkultes Lesen und okkultes Hören, GA 156 (1987), Vierter Vortrag, Dornach, 6. Oktober 1914 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
- Rudolf Steiner: Erdensterben und Weltenleben, GA 181 (1967), Berlin, 12. März 1918 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
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