Warmth

Warmth, heat and fire (from Old High German: fiur; Greek: πῦρ pyr; Latin: ignis; Hebrew: אֵשׁ esch or נר nour, cf. ner, "candle, light(s)"; Arabic النور Al-Nour "light, day, fire"), the fire element, formed the basic substance of Old Saturn. It came into being through the sacrificial act of the Thrones who surrendered their will substance. In the Hebrew alphabet Shin (שׁ), the first of the three mothers, stands for the creative fire of the spirit from which this material basis of Old Saturn had sprung. At that time the physical body of man was predisposed as a body of pure warmth or heat body. w:Heraclitus' view that everything sprang from fire vaguely points to this origin of the evolution of our whole planetary chain. Old Saturn's fire can today only be compared approximately with that which flows through our blood as living warmth. Just as light is opposed to darkness, heat is opposed to cold as an independent force.

From a chemical-physical point of view, fire is based on the formation of flames associated with light and heat phenomena, which are caused by the hot, partially ionised gases produced by the combustion of suitable fuels. Heat, or more abstractly energy, still forms the basis of the whole material world. From the theory of special relativity published in 1905 by Albert Einstein (1879-1955), the equivalence of mass and energy follows according to the well-known formula E = mc².

Literature

• Martin Basfeld: Wärme: Ur-Materie und Ich-Leib: Beiträge zur Anthropologie und Kosmologie., Verlag Freies Geistesleben, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 978-3772516306
• Rudolf Steiner: Kosmologie und menschliche Evolution. Einführung in die Theosophie – Farbenlehre, GA 91 (2018), ISBN 978-3-7274-0910-3
• Rudolf Steiner: Geistige Hierarchien und ihre Widerspiegelung in der physischen Welt, GA 110 (1991), ISBN 3-7274-1100-7 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
• Rudolf Steiner: Eine okkulte Physiologie, GA 128 (1991), ISBN 3-7274-1281-X English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
• Rudolf Steiner: Entsprechungen zwischen Mikrokosmos und Makrokosmos, GA 201 (1987), ISBN 3-7274-2012-X English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
• Rudolf Steiner: Geisteswissenschaftliche Impulse zur Entwickelung der Physik, II, GA 321 (2000), ISBN 3-7274-3210-1 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
• Rudolf Steiner: Anthroposophie – Eine Zusammenfassung nach einundzwanzig Jahren, GA 234 (1994), ISBN 3-7274-2342-0 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
• Rudolf Steiner: Esoterische Unterweisungen für die erste Klasse der Freien Hochschule für Geisteswissenschaft am Goetheanum 1924, GA 270/1 (1999), ISBN 3-7274-2700-0 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
• Rudolf Steiner: Anthroposophische Menschenerkenntnis und Medizin, GA 319 (1994), ISBN 3-7274-3190-3 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org

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