Salamander

The salamanders, fire beings, fire spirits or elementary beings of fire, are elementary beings that work in fire and in all warmth processes. They arise as a cut-off at the death of certain higher warm-blooded animals, which already have almost an I-like character, sometimes also at the death of very low-minded libidinous people. Thus, for instance, the monkey takes too much of the group spirit down with him into the individual animal form; and while with the lower animals everything merges again into the group spirit with death, the monkey, because he has become too complicated in his bodily organisation, retains something behind. This is not the case with the lion, for example, but it is with the marsupials. The salamanders thus show an I-like character and have the same members as the human being, namely the physical body, the etheric body, the astral body and the I. However, the physical body is a pure heat body, and their I is also not directly comparable with the human I (see also → Members of the elementary beings). The heat of the blood of the beings from which they have cut themselves off gives them their fiery character.

Literature

• Rudolf Steiner: Natur- und Geistwesen – ihr Wirken in unserer sichtbaren Welt, GA 98 (1996), ISBN 3-7274-0980-0 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
• Rudolf Steiner: Das Hereinwirken geistiger Wesenheiten in den Menschen, GA 102 (2001), ISBN 3-7274-1020-5 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
• Rudolf Steiner: Der Mensch als Zusammenklang des schaffenden, bildenden und gestaltenden Weltenwortes, GA 230 (1985) English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
• Rudolf Steiner: Aus den Inhalten der esoterischen Stunden, Band II, GA 266/2 (1996) English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org

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