Fire-air

Fire-air, sometimes called Akasha substance, formed on the Old Moon and is, according to the occult view, the primordial matter that underlies all material existence. As the sulphur or sulphur process, fire-air is one of the three fundamental processes of the alchemical Tria Principia.

The Fire-mist Atmosphere of the Old Moon and the Early Earth

The fire-air, permeated with watery substances, the fire-mist, later formed the atmosphere of the Old Moon:

„Out of the whole bottom grew the plant animals, and then above them moved those entities which were human animals, in the perimeter of the Moon which is called "fire-air." Think of the whole air filled with vapours of saltpetre, carbonic and sulphuric acid; in this fiery air, which you would thus get, lived the lunar men. The occultist always knew this fiery air; and under the old earth conditions there was even the possibility of chemically producing such fiery air, which today can only be done in very small circles. The knowledge of this has been preserved by genuine alchemy. Therefore, when you read in "Faust": I want to make a little fire-air..., this is an allusion to the depths of occultism. Air of fire enveloped the Moon, that was its atmosphere.“ (Lit.:GA 100, p. 118)

Literature

• Rudolf Steiner: Aus der Akasha-Chronik, GA 11 (1986), ISBN 3-7274-0110-9 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
• Rudolf Steiner: Ursprung und Ziel des Menschen, GA 53 (1981), ISBN 3-7274-0532-5 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
• Rudolf Steiner: Die Theosophie des Rosenkreuzers, GA 99, Zehnter Vortrag, München, 3. Juni 1907 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
• Rudolf Steiner: Menschheitsentwickelung und Christus-Erkenntnis, GA 100 (1981) English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
• Rudolf Steiner: Der Orient im Lichte des Okzidents, GA 113 (1982) English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
• Rudolf Steiner: Die vierte Dimension, GA 324a (1995), ISBN 3-7274-3245-4 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org

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