Frost giant

Frost giants (also ice giants) are gnomes enlarged to the size of giants who have exceeded the limits of their actual sphere of action in the root kingdom of plants.

„In the roots of plants, the nature spirits work beneficently within the limits assigned to them by the sun and moon. But they can wrest themselves from these limits. That which in the root draws together the salts of the earth in order to assimilate them into the form of the plant can leave the boundaries of the plant, make itself independent. Then it proliferates into the gigantic. Instead of the narrow root being, it takes hold of the vastness of natural events. It lives in the products of frost, in the wild effects that emanate from the cold of the earth. The root spirits grow into the giants of ripeness and frost. What in the leaf the shaping of the plant brings into the air lives, emancipated from its narrow limits, as storm and wind giants. And what in the blossom and fruit the plant releases to the power of the sun becomes, growing independently, the giants of fire.

Thus a view of nature once arose in the European North which saw the giants of ripeness, storm and fire where today "forces of nature" are seen.“ (Lit.:GA 37, p. 482)

Literature

• Rudolf Steiner: Philosophie und Anthroposophie, GA 37 (2019), ISBN 978-3-7274-0370-5 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
• Rudolf Steiner: Initiations-Erkenntnis, GA 227 (2000), ISBN 3-7274-2271-8 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
• Rudolf Steiner: Initiationswissenschaft und Sternenerkenntnis, GA 228 (2002), ISBN 3-7274-2280-7 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org

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