Missão, Caráter, Essência, Grail Triptych /Tryptychon Graal, Sonia von Homrich

https://soniavonhomrich.blogspot.com/2019/11/missao-carater-vida-sonia-von-homrich.html

19 julho 2024

Verdade, Beleza, Bondade, Hannah Arendt. Rudolf Steiner.

 

"Esta constante mentira não visa fazer as pessoas acreditarem na mentira, mas assegurar que as pessoas não mais acreditem em nada.

Um povo que não mais distingue entre verdades e mentiras não pode distinguir entre o certo e o errado.

E este povo, privado do poder de pensar e julgar, é - sem o conhecimento e a vontade para tal, completamente sujeito  à regra da mentira. Com este povo, você faz o que quiser fazer. "

- Hannah Arendt,

(14 Out 1906 - 4 Dez 1975) era uma historiadora e filósofa alemã.

O objetivo da educação totalitária nunca foi instilar convicções, mas destruir a capacidade de formar alguma educação.

O extenso corpo de trabalho de Arendt inclui muitas discussões diferenciadas sobre verdades, mentiras e a natureza do totalitarismo, e essa citação reflete temas de seus escritos sobre o totalitarismo e a natureza da verdade.

 

"This constant lying is not aimed at making the people believe a lie, but at ensuring that no one believes anything anymore.

A people that can no longer distinguish between truth and lies cannot distinguish between right and wrong.

And such a people, deprived of the power to think and judge, is, without knowing and willing it, completely subjected to the rule

of lies. With such a people, you can do whatever you want."

- Hannah Arendt,

(14 October 1906 – 4 December 1975) was a German historian and philosopher.

The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.

Arendt's extensive body of work includes many nuanced discussions on truth, lies, and the nature of totalitarianism, and this quote reflects themes from her writing on totalitarianism and the nature of truth.

 

Acrescento uma palestra (entre muitas) sobre a Verdade, de Rudolf Steiner.

Verdade, Beleza e Bondade, cuja tradução para português, encontra-se abaixo do texto em Inglês.

 

I add a lecture (among many) about the truth, by Rudolf Steiner.

Truth, Beauty and Goodness, whose translation to Portuguese is below the English text.

 

Truth, Beauty and Goodness
GA 220
 

https://rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA220/English/Singles/19230119p01.html 

Rudolf Steiner stated that the primary function of education is to exercise the students' faculties of thinking, feeling and willing. These basic human qualities manifest in civilization as the “eternal verities” of truth, beauty and goodness, and these in turn in science, art and religion.

19 January 1923, Dornach

Translator Unknown

True, the Beautiful, the Good—through all the ages of man's conscious evolution these words have expressed three great ideals: ideals which have instinctively been recognized as representing the sublime nature and lofty goal of all human endeavour. In epochs earlier than our own there was a deeper knowledge of man's being and his connection with the universe, when Truth, Beauty and Goodness had more concrete reality than they have in our age of abstraction. Anthroposophy, or Spiritual Science, is able once again to indicate the concrete reality of such ideals, although in so doing it does not always meet with the approval of the times. For in our age men love to be vague and nebulous whenever it is a question of getting beyond the facts of everyday life.

Let us try to understand how Truth, Beauty and Goodness are related, as concrete realities, to the being of man.

As the human being stands before us we see, in the first place, his physical body—nowadays the object of purely external observation. How the single organs, the form and functions of the body have been built up in pre-earthly existence—of this people are wholly unaware. In his pre-earthly existence man lives in a world of pure Spirit, where, in communion with higher Beings, he is engaged in building up the spiritual prototype, the spirit-form of his physical body. The physical body here on earth is but an after-copy of the spirit-germ that is elaborated, in a certain sense, by man himself in pre-earthly existence.

In earthly life the human being is conscious of his physical body, but does not know what this implies. We speak of Truth, little realizing that a feeling for truth is connected with our consciousness of the physical body. When man is confronted by a simple fact, he may either form an idea that harmonizes strictly with it and thus is true, or, from inaccuracy, laziness or positive aversion to truth, he may evolve an idea that does not coincide with the fact. When he thinks the truth, he is in harmony with the feeling he has of his physical body, nay also with his sense of the connection between this physical body and pre-earthly existence. If out of laziness or untruthfulness he forms an idea that is not in accordance with the fact, it is as if he cut the thread that binds him to pre-earthly existence. Untruth severs this thread. In pre-earthly existence a delicate spiritual wool is spun, and this is concentrated into an after-copy—the physical body. Many threads connect this physical body with pre-earthly existence, and they are severed by untruthfulness. The purely intellectual consciousness that is a characteristic quality in the early stages of the epoch of the Spiritual Soul (*) does not realize that such a severance takes place. And that is why man is subject to so many illusions as to his connection with cosmic existence.

For the most part to-day, man regards his bodily health from a purely physical point of view. But when, through untruthfulness, he severs the threads that bind him with pre-earthly existence, this works right down into his physical body, and especially into the constitution of the nervous system. The feeling he has of his physical body gives him his “spiritual sense of being” in the universe. And this spiritual sense of being depends upon maintenance of the threads proceeding from the physical body to pre-earthly existence. If they break, man must create a substitute for his healthy sense of being—and he does so, unconsciously. He is then led, unconsciously, to ascribe to himself a sense of being “out of the common.” But even here he has fallen into an inner uncertainty that makes itself felt even in the physical body. For this purely spiritual sense of being that we find existing with greater and greater intensity the farther we go back in history—is it strongly present in man to-day?

How often it is the case that a man would like to be a person of note not by virtue of his own spiritual life, but by virtue of some profession or title. He likes to have some such title as “Secretary” or “Notary,” and then imagines he is of importance when convention thus describes him. The essential thing, however, is that he shall be able to realize his existence inwardly, apart from all externalities.

What is it that can strengthen man in this sense of being? In earthly existence we live in a world that is but a copy of true reality. Indeed, we only understand this physical world aright when we realize it to be this copy of reality. It behooves us, however, to feel the true reality within us; we must be aware of our connection with the spiritual world. And this is only possible if the bond that links us with pre-earthly existence remains intact.

This bond is strengthened by a love of truth and Integrity. Nothing establishes man's true and original sense of existence so firmly as a feeling for truth and truthfulness. To feel himself in duty bound first to “prove all things” he utters, to set due restraint on all his words—this helps to consolidate the sense of existence that is worthy of his being. To be aware of the spirit within the physical body—with this, indeed, the sense of being is connected. There is, in effect, an intimate kinship between the physical body and this ideal of Truth.

We acquire the etheric body (or body of “formative forces”) only a short time before the descent from pre-earthly to earthly existence. We draw the forces of the etheric world together, as it were, to build up our own etheric body. Now in earlier epochs of evolution man had a better understanding of the etheric body than he has to-day. Indeed, instead of feeling the reality of the etheric body, he is nowadays apt to scoff at the very idea.

The sense of the reality of the etheric body is strengthened by the experience of Beauty. When truth and truthfulness enter the realm of real experience, we are, in a sense, living rightly in the physical body. A highly developed sense of beauty gives us a right relation to the etheric body of formative forces. Whereas Truth is connected with the physical body, Beauty is connected with the etheric body.

This will become clear if we think of the significance of beauty as manifested in art. If we have before us a human being of flesh and blood, we know that he is one among many. Yet the one has no meaning without the many who live around him. Slender indeed are the roots that bind man to physical existence, without the others around him.

If we try either through sculpture, painting, or drama—indeed, through any art—to portray a human being, we endeavour to create a figure that is sufficient and complete in itself—one that contains a whole world, just as man contains the whole universe within himself in his etheric body. For he draws together the etheric forces from the whole universe to mould his etheric body within earthly existence.

An intense feeling for beauty—as it was then conceived—existed in earlier ages. Nothing of the same kind is present in modern civilization, Man cannot be truly man if he has no sense of beauty. It is so, indeed; for to possess a sense of beauty is to acknowledge the reality of the etheric body. To have no sense of beauty is to disregard, to disown, the etheric body.

Of this modern man is all unconscious. When the Greek approached his temple, or beheld within the temple the statue of the god, he was conscious of an inner, glowing warmth, of a kind of inner sunlight. It was as though forces streamed into his being and into his different organs. Gazing at the statue of the god, his whole heart cried out: “Never do I feel the peripheral structure of my hands and fingers so vividly as when this statue stands there before me! Never have I such an inner sense of the arch of my brow as in the temple!” Inwardly warmed and irradiated—god-inspired—thus did the Greek feel in the presence of beauty. And this was nothing else but an experience in the etheric body.

In the presence of ugliness the Greek's feeling was quite different from that of modern man. The latter at most expresses his very abstract feelings in regard to ugliness by his features-he makes a grimace! Ugliness cast a chill through the whole body of the Greek, affecting even the very pores of his skin. In ancient times men were vividly aware of the reality of the etheric body, and in the course of evolution a part of human nature has, indeed, been lost. All these things of which I have been speaking—and which were actual experiences in earlier times—remain unconscious in man to-day, for with his rationalistic intellect and love of abstraction he tends to view everything from the head—the organ belonging to these qualities.

Enthusiasm for truth and truthfulness can kindle in man—in the unconscious depths of his soul at any rate—a feeling for pre-earthly existence. An epoch of civilization in which this feeling is absent can possess no real sense of truth and truthfulness. But when this sense is highly developed, it binds man strongly to the pre-earthly past, and his more immediate experience of the earthly present must needs cause a certain sadness to arise within him. It is a sadness that can only find consolation if the sense of beauty is awakened in the soul. Beauty gives us joy once more, even in the presence of a sadness that must always accompany great enthusiasm for truth. In a delicate, subtle way this enthusiasm tells us: Truth, alas, is only really present in pre-earthly existence. Here in this earthly world we have but her echo. Having left the pre-earthly life, we no longer stand within the essential substance of truth. Only enthusiasm for truth can help us to maintain intact our relationship with pre-earthly existence.

A genuine feeling for beauty forges a link that binds us here, in earthly life itself, once again with pre-earthly existence. We ought never to undervalue the significance of beauty in education and in outer culture. A civilization that is filled with ugly machines, with chimneys and smoke, and dispenses with beauty, is a world that makes no efforts to forge a link between man and pre-earthly existence; indeed, it tears him asunder. Not by way of analogy, but in very truth we may say: A purely industrial city is a fitting abode for the demonic beings who would like to make man forget his pre-earthly existence in the realm of spirit.

Yet delight in beauty must be paid for at the cost of realizing that the beautiful, in its essence, is not rooted in earthly reality. The more perfectly we represent the human form, say, in sculpture or painting, the more must we admit that this does not correspond to an outer reality in earthly existence. It is but a consolation afforded by beautiful semblance, and hence lasts only until the moment we pass through the gate of death.

The world of spirit in which we live during our pre-earthly existence is always present. We have but to stretch out our arms, as it were, to this pre-earthly world of spirit. Although it is always there, a link can only be forged in the depths of unconscious life when man glows with enthusiasm for truth and truthfulness. And when his heart thrills with love for the beautiful, this too forms a bond with pre-earthly existence.

If man is to be true in a higher, this means spiritual, sense, he must not forget that he has lived in the spirit in pre-earthly existence. To glow in response to beauty means that in his soul man must create in a picture, at least, a new link with pre-earthly spirituality.

How can man develop an actual power that will lead him directly into the world he left because he has descended to the earth from pre-earthly existence? The answer is, when he is filled with Goodness—the goodness that flows to other men and is not confined to self-interest, conscious only of what is living within his own being. Such goodness can lead the soul into the qualities, nature and experiences of others. It embraces innumerable forces of soul; and these forces are of such a nature that they actually instill into the human being elements with which he was wholly permeated only in pre-earthly existence. Through his sense of Beauty he links himself, by means of a picture, to the spirit he has left because of his descent to earthly existence. If he is truly good, he links this earthly life itself to pre-earthly existence. A good man is one who can bear his own soul over into the soul of another. Upon this all true morality depends, and without morality no true social order among earthly humanity can be maintained.

When this true morality develops into momentous impulses of will which then pass to reality in moral acts, it begins to be a quickening, all-pervading impulse in the soul, inasmuch as a man can then be moved to real sympathy at the sight of care on the face of another—his own astral body feels pain at the sight of suffering in others. For just as the sense of Truth manifests in man's right relation to the physical body; just as a warm enthusiasm for Beauty expresses itself in the etheric body—so does Goodness live in the astral body. And the astral body cannot be healthy, or maintain its true position in the world, if man is not able to pour through it the forces proceeding from Goodness.

Truth, then, is related to the physical body, Beauty to the etheric body, Goodness to the astral body. Here we have the concrete reality of the three abstractions of Truth, Beauty, Goodness. In short, we can relate to the actual being of man all that is expressed instinctively in these three ideals.

These ideals show us how far man is able to fulfill his whole human nature, when, to begin with, as he lives in his physical body, he is filled with a real sense of truth instead of conventional opinions. Again, full “humanity” is only afforded a worthy existence when a man can quicken his etheric body into life through his feeling for beauty. Indeed, he who is incapable of being moved at the sight of beauty to somewhat the same degree as the Greek, does not possess a true sense of beauty. One can merely gaze at beauty or one can experience it. To-day it is the case that most people only gaze, and this does not necessarily energize anything in the etheric body. To gaze at beauty is not to experience it. The moment we experience beauty, however, the etheric body is quickened.

A man may do good because of some convention, or because punishment is in store for serious wrong-doing—or, again, because other people will respect him less if he does wrong. He can, however, also do good from sheer love of goodness. I spoke of this years ago in my book, The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity. Such an experience of goodness will always lead to a recognition of the reality of the astral body. Indeed, only this recognition will teach man anything about the essence of goodness. There can only be abstract knowledge of and inconsequent chatter about goodness, if loving enthusiasm for goodness in its essence does not lead to actual experience of the astral body.

Now to realize the good is not, as in the experience of beauty, merely to create a link with pre-earthly existence that ceases when man passes through the gate of death. To experience goodness is, indeed, to unite oneself with the world of which I said, it is ever present. We have but to stretch out towards it. Yet man is separated from this world in material existence. Experience of goodness is a link, leading directly to the world he enters after death.

Forces that endure beyond the gate of death are present in men's actions here on earth, if he lives a life of goodness. The sense of truth is a heritage from pre-earthly existence. The sense of beauty will create an image, at least, of pre-earthly connection with spirit. And the impulse exists within us not to cut ourselves off from spirit, but rather to maintain the bond intact by the goodness we develop as inner power.

To be true is to be rightly united with our spiritual past. To sense beauty means that in the physical world we do not disown our connection with spirit. To be good is to build a living seed for a spiritual world in the future.

Past, present, future—these three concepts, as they play their part in human life, assume far-reaching significance when we understand the concrete reality of the other three concepts—Truth, Beauty, Goodness.

The man who is untruthful denies his spiritual past; the liar severs the threads between himself and his spiritual past. He who disregards beauty is building himself an abode on earth where the sun of spirit never shines, where he wanders in spiritless shadow. The man who belies the good renounces his spiritual future; and yet he would like this future to be bestowed on him, may be by means of some outer remedy.

It was, indeed, out of a profound instinct that Truth, Beauty and Goodness were held to be the greatest ideals of human striving. Yet they have faded away into shadowy words, and it is only our present age that can bestow concrete reality upon them.

(*) See Note 1 says the link in English altough there is no conection.

 

Verdade, Beleza e Bondade
GA 220

Rudolf Steiner afirmou que a função principal da educação é exercitar as faculdades de pensar, sentir e querer dos alunos. Estas qualidades humanas básicas manifestam-se na civilização como as “verdades eternas” da verdade, da beleza e da bondade, e estas, por sua vez, na ciência, na arte e na religião.

19 de janeiro de 1923, Dornach

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Verdadeiro, o Belo, o Bom – ao longo de todas as eras da evolução consciente do homem, estas palavras expressaram três grandes ideais: ideais que foram instintivamente reconhecidos como representando a natureza sublime e o objetivo elevado de todo o esforço humano. Em épocas anteriores à nossa, havia um conhecimento mais profundo do ser do homem e da sua ligação com o universo, quando a Verdade, a Beleza e a Bondade tinham uma realidade mais concreta do que na nossa era de abstracção. A Antroposofia, ou Ciência Espiritual, é capaz mais uma vez de indicar a realidade concreta de tais ideais, embora ao fazê-lo nem sempre encontre a aprovação dos tempos. Pois em nossa época os homens adoram ser vagos e nebulosos sempre que se trata de ir além dos fatos da vida cotidiana.

Procuremos compreender como a Verdade, a Beleza e o Bem se relacionam, como realidades concretas, com o ser do homem.

Quando o ser humano está diante de nós, vemos, em primeiro lugar, o seu corpo físico – hoje objeto de observação puramente externa. Como os órgãos individuais, a forma e as funções do corpo foram construídos na existência pré-terrena – isso as pessoas desconhecem totalmente. Na sua existência pré-terrena, o homem vive num mundo de Espírito puro, onde, em comunhão com Seres superiores, está empenhado na construção do protótipo espiritual, a forma espiritual do seu corpo físico. O corpo físico aqui na terra é apenas uma cópia posterior do germe espiritual que é elaborado, em certo sentido, pelo próprio homem na existência pré-terrena.

Na vida terrena o ser humano tem consciência do seu corpo físico, mas não sabe o que isso implica. Falamos da Verdade, sem perceber que um sentimento pela verdade está ligado à nossa consciência do corpo físico. Quando o homem é confrontado com um facto simples, ele pode formar uma ideia que se harmonize estritamente com ele e, portanto, ser verdadeira, ou, por imprecisão, preguiça ou aversão positiva à verdade, ele pode desenvolver uma ideia que não coincide com o facto. Quando ele pensa a verdade, ele está em harmonia com o sentimento que tem do seu corpo físico, ou melhor, também com o seu sentido da conexão entre este corpo físico e a existência pré-terrena. Se por preguiça ou falsidade ele forma uma ideia que não está de acordo com o fato, é como se cortasse o fio que o liga à existência pré-terrena. A inverdade corta esse fio. Na existência pré-terrena, uma delicada lã espiritual é tecida e concentrada em uma cópia posterior – o corpo físico. Muitos fios conectam este corpo físico com a existência pré-terrena e são cortados pela falsidade. A consciência puramente intelectual, que é uma qualidade característica nos primeiros estágios da época da Alma Espiritual (* ), não percebe que tal separação ocorre. E é por isso que o homem está sujeito a tantas ilusões quanto à sua ligação com a existência cósmica.

Na maior parte dos dias de hoje, o homem considera a sua saúde corporal de um ponto de vista puramente físico. Mas quando, através da falsidade, ele corta os fios que o ligam à existência pré-terrena, isso afeta diretamente o seu corpo físico e, especialmente, a constituição do sistema nervoso. A sensação que ele tem do seu corpo físico lhe dá a “sensação espiritual de estar” no universo. E esse sentido espiritual de ser depende da manutenção dos fios que vão do corpo físico à existência pré-terrena. Se quebrarem, o homem terá de criar um substituto para o seu saudável sentido de ser – e fá-lo, inconscientemente. Ele é então levado, inconscientemente, a atribuir a si mesmo uma sensação de estar “fora do comum”. Mas mesmo aqui ele caiu numa incerteza interior que se faz sentir até no corpo físico. Pois este sentido de ser puramente espiritual, que descobrimos existir com maior e maior intensidade à medida que recuamos na história, está fortemente presente no homem de hoje?

Quantas vezes acontece que um homem gostaria de ser uma pessoa notável, não em virtude de sua própria vida espiritual, mas em virtude de alguma profissão ou título. Ele gosta de ter títulos como “Secretário” ou “Notário”, e então imagina que é importante quando a convenção o descreve assim. O essencial, porém, é que ele seja capaz de realizar a sua existência interiormente, independente de todas as externalidades.

O que é que pode fortalecer o homem neste sentido de ser? Na existência terrena vivemos num mundo que é apenas uma cópia da verdadeira realidade. Na verdade, só compreendemos corretamente este mundo físico quando percebemos que ele é esta cópia da realidade. Cabe a nós, entretanto, sentir a verdadeira realidade dentro de nós; devemos estar conscientes de nossa conexão com o mundo espiritual. E isto só é possível se o vínculo que nos liga à existência pré-terrena permanecer intacto.

Este vínculo é fortalecido pelo amor à verdade e à integridade. Nada estabelece tão firmemente o verdadeiro e original sentido de existência do homem como um sentimento de verdade e veracidade. Sentir-se no dever de primeiro “provar todas as coisas” que ele pronuncia, de impor a devida restrição a todas as suas palavras - isso ajuda a consolidar o sentido de existência que é digno do seu ser. Estar consciente do espírito dentro do corpo físico – com isso, de fato, a sensação de ser está conectada. Existe, com efeito, um parentesco íntimo entre o corpo físico e este ideal de Verdade.

Adquirimos o corpo etérico (ou corpo de “forças formativas”) apenas pouco tempo antes da descida da existência pré-terrena para a existência terrena. Reunimos as forças do mundo etérico, por assim dizer, para construir nosso próprio corpo etérico. Ora, em épocas anteriores da evolução, o homem tinha uma compreensão melhor do corpo etérico do que tem hoje. Na verdade, em vez de sentir a realidade do corpo etérico, ele hoje em dia tende a zombar da própria ideia.

A sensação da realidade do corpo etérico é fortalecida pela experiência da Beleza. Quando a verdade e a veracidade entram no domínio da experiência real, estamos, em certo sentido, vivendo corretamente no corpo físico. Um senso de beleza altamente desenvolvido nos dá uma relação correta com o corpo etérico das forças formativas. Enquanto a Verdade está ligada ao corpo físico, a Beleza está ligada ao corpo etérico.

Isto ficará claro se pensarmos no significado da beleza manifestada na arte. Se temos diante de nós um ser humano de carne e osso, sabemos que ele é um entre muitos. No entanto, aquele não tem sentido sem os muitos que vivem ao seu redor. De fato, são delgadas as raízes que ligam o homem à existência física, sem os outros ao seu redor.

Se tentarmos, seja através da escultura, da pintura ou do drama - na verdade, através de qualquer arte - retratar um ser humano, nos esforçaremos para criar uma figura que seja suficiente e completa em si mesma - uma figura que contenha um mundo inteiro, assim como o homem contém o universo inteiro dentro de si mesmo em seu corpo etérico. Pois ele reúne as forças etéricas de todo o universo para moldar seu corpo etérico na existência terrena.

Um sentimento intenso pela beleza – tal como era então concebida – existiu em épocas anteriores. Nada do mesmo tipo está presente na civilização moderna. O homem não pode ser verdadeiramente homem se não tiver senso de beleza. É assim, de fato; pois possuir um senso de beleza é reconhecer a realidade do corpo etérico. Não ter senso de beleza é desconsiderar, renegar o corpo etérico.

Disto o homem moderno está totalmente inconsciente. Quando o grego se aproximava de seu templo, ou contemplava dentro do templo a estátua do deus, ele tinha consciência de um calor interior e brilhante, de uma espécie de luz solar interior. Era como se forças fluíssem para seu ser e para seus diferentes órgãos. Olhando para a estátua do deus, todo o seu coração gritou: “Nunca senti a estrutura periférica das minhas mãos e dedos tão vividamente como quando esta estátua está diante de mim! Nunca tive uma sensação tão interior do arco da minha testa como no templo!” Interiormente aquecido e irradiado – inspirado por Deus – assim o grego se sentia na presença da beleza. E isso nada mais foi do que uma experiência no corpo etérico.

Na presença da feiúra, o sentimento do grego era bem diferente daquele do homem moderno. Este último, no máximo, expressa seus sentimentos muito abstratos em relação à feiúra por meio de suas feições – ele faz uma careta! A feiúra arrepiou todo o corpo do grego, atingindo até os poros da pele. Nos tempos antigos, os homens tinham uma consciência vívida da realidade do corpo etérico e, no curso da evolução, uma parte da natureza humana foi, de fato, perdida. Todas estas coisas de que tenho falado - e que foram experiências reais em épocas anteriores - permanecem inconscientes no homem hoje, pois com o seu intelecto racionalista e amor à abstracção ele tende a ver tudo a partir da cabeça - o órgão pertencente a estas coisas. qualidades.

O entusiasmo pela verdade e pela veracidade pode despertar no homem - pelo menos nas profundezas inconscientes de sua alma - um sentimento de existência pré-terrena. Uma época da civilização em que este sentimento esteja ausente não pode possuir nenhum sentido real de verdade e veracidade. Mas quando esse sentido é altamente desenvolvido, ele liga fortemente o homem ao passado pré-terrestre, e sua experiência mais imediata do presente terreno deve necessariamente causar o surgimento de uma certa tristeza dentro dele. É uma tristeza que só encontra consolo se o sentido da beleza for despertado na alma. A beleza nos dá alegria mais uma vez, mesmo na presença de uma tristeza que deve sempre acompanhar um grande entusiasmo pela verdade. De uma forma delicada e subtil, este entusiasmo diz-nos: A verdade, infelizmente, só está realmente presente na existência pré-terrena. Aqui neste mundo terreno temos apenas o eco dela. Tendo deixado a vida pré-terrena, não estamos mais dentro da substância essencial da verdade. Só o entusiasmo pela verdade pode ajudar-nos a manter intacta a nossa relação com a existência pré-terrena.

Um sentimento genuíno pela beleza cria um elo que nos une aqui, na própria vida terrena, mais uma vez com a existência pré-terrena. Nunca devemos subestimar o significado da beleza na educação e na cultura exterior. Uma civilização repleta de máquinas feias, de chaminés e de fumo, e que dispensa a beleza, é um mundo que não faz nenhum esforço para estabelecer uma ligação entre o homem e a existência pré-terrena; na verdade, isso o despedaça. Não por analogia, mas com toda a verdade podemos dizer: Uma cidade puramente industrial é uma morada adequada para os seres demoníacos que gostariam de fazer o homem esquecer a sua existência pré-terrena no reino do espírito.

No entanto, o deleite pela beleza deve ser pago à custa da compreensão de que o belo, na sua essência, não está enraizado na realidade terrena. Quanto mais perfeitamente representamos a forma humana, digamos, na escultura ou na pintura, mais devemos admitir que isto não corresponde a uma realidade exterior na existência terrena. É apenas um consolo proporcionado pela bela aparência e, portanto, dura apenas até o momento em que atravessamos o portão da morte.

O mundo espiritual em que vivemos durante a nossa existência pré-terrena está sempre presente. Basta-nos, por assim dizer, estender os braços para este mundo espiritual pré-terreno. Embora esteja sempre presente, um elo só pode ser forjado nas profundezas da vida inconsciente quando o homem brilha com entusiasmo pela verdade e pela veracidade. E quando seu coração vibra de amor pelo belo, isso também forma um vínculo com a existência pré-terrena.

Se o homem quiser ser verdadeiro em um sentido superior, isto é, espiritual, ele não deve esquecer que viveu no espírito na existência pré-terrena. Brilhar em resposta à beleza significa que em sua alma o homem deve criar numa imagem, pelo menos, um novo vínculo com a espiritualidade pré-terrena.

Como pode o homem desenvolver um poder real que o levará diretamente ao mundo que ele deixou porque desceu à Terra desde a existência pré-terrena? A resposta é, quando ele está cheio de Bondade – a bondade que flui para outros homens e não se limita ao interesse próprio, consciente apenas do que vive dentro do seu próprio ser. Essa bondade pode conduzir a alma às qualidades, à natureza e às experiências dos outros. Abrange inúmeras forças da alma; e essas forças são de tal natureza que na verdade instilam no ser humano elementos com os quais ele estava totalmente permeado apenas na existência pré-terrena. Através do seu sentido de Beleza ele se liga, por meio de uma imagem, ao espírito que deixou por causa da sua descida à existência terrena. Se ele for verdadeiramente bom, ele liga esta própria vida terrena à existência pré-terrena. Um homem bom é aquele que consegue transferir sua própria alma para a alma de outro. Disso depende toda a verdadeira moralidade, e sem moralidade nenhuma verdadeira ordem social entre a humanidade terrena pode ser mantida.

Quando esta verdadeira moralidade se desenvolve em momentosos impulsos de vontade que então passam para a realidade em atos morais, ela começa a ser um impulso vivificante e que tudo permeia na alma, na medida em que um homem pode então ser levado a uma verdadeira simpatia ao ver o cuidado. na face de outro – seu próprio corpo astral sente dor ao ver o sofrimento dos outros. Pois assim como o sentido da Verdade se manifesta na relação correta do homem com o corpo físico; assim como um caloroso entusiasmo pela Beleza se expressa no corpo etérico, a Bondade também vive no corpo astral. E o corpo astral não pode ser são, nem manter a sua verdadeira posição no mundo, se o homem não for capaz de derramar através dele as forças provenientes do Bem.

A Verdade, então, está relacionada ao corpo físico, a Beleza ao corpo etérico, a Bondade ao corpo astral. Aqui temos a realidade concreta das três abstrações de Verdade, Beleza e Bondade. Em suma, podemos relacionar com o ser real do homem tudo o que é expresso instintivamente nestes três ideais.

Estes ideais mostram-nos até que ponto o homem é capaz de cumprir toda a sua natureza humana, quando, para começar, enquanto vive no seu corpo físico, ele está repleto de um verdadeiro sentido de verdade em vez de opiniões convencionais. Mais uma vez, a “humanidade” plena só terá uma existência digna quando um homem puder dar vida ao seu corpo etérico através do seu sentimento pela beleza. Na verdade, aquele que é incapaz de se emocionar ao ver a beleza no mesmo grau que o grego, não possui um verdadeiro senso de beleza. Pode-se apenas contemplar a beleza ou experimentá-la. Hoje acontece que a maioria das pessoas apenas olha, e isso não necessariamente energiza nada no corpo etérico. Contemplar a beleza não é experimentá-la. No momento em que experimentamos a beleza, porém, o corpo etérico é acelerado.

Um homem pode fazer o bem por causa de alguma convenção, ou porque o castigo está reservado para uma transgressão grave – ou, novamente, porque outras pessoas o respeitarão menos se ele cometer um erro. Ele pode, no entanto, também fazer o bem por puro amor ao bem. Falei sobre isso anos atrás em meu livro A Filosofia da Atividade Espiritual . Tal experiência do bem sempre levará ao reconhecimento da realidade do corpo astral. Na verdade, só este reconhecimento ensinará ao homem alguma coisa sobre a essência da bondade. Só pode haver conhecimento abstrato e conversa inconsequente sobre o bem, se o entusiasmo amoroso pelo bem em sua essência não levar à experiência real do corpo astral.

Ora, realizar o bem não é, como na experiência da beleza, meramente criar um vínculo com a existência pré-terrena que cessa quando o homem passa pelo portão da morte. Experimentar o bem é, de fato, unir-se ao mundo do qual eu disse, ele está sempre presente. Temos apenas que nos esforçar para isso. No entanto, o homem está separado deste mundo na existência material. A experiência da bondade é um elo que leva diretamente ao mundo em que ele entra após a morte.

As forças que perduram além da porta da morte estão presentes nas ações dos homens aqui na terra, se eles viverem uma vida de bondade. O sentido da verdade é uma herança da existência pré-terrena. O senso de beleza criará uma imagem, pelo menos, de conexão pré-terrena com o espírito. E existe dentro de nós o impulso de não nos desligarmos do espírito, mas sim de manter intacto o vínculo pela bondade que desenvolvemos como poder interior.

Ser verdadeiro é estar corretamente unido ao nosso passado espiritual. Sentir a beleza significa que no mundo físico não renegamos a nossa ligação com o espírito. Ser bom é construir uma semente viva para um mundo espiritual no futuro.

Passado, presente, futuro - estes três conceitos, à medida que desempenham o seu papel na vida humana, assumem um significado de longo alcance quando compreendemos a realidade concreta dos outros três conceitos - Verdade, Beleza, Bondade.

O homem que não é verdadeiro nega o seu passado espiritual; o mentiroso corta os fios entre ele e seu passado espiritual. Aquele que desconsidera a beleza está construindo para si uma morada na terra onde o sol do espírito nunca brilha, onde ele vagueia em sombras sem espírito. O homem que desmente o bem renuncia ao seu futuro espiritual; e ainda assim ele gostaria que esse futuro lhe fosse concedido, talvez por meio de algum remédio externo.

Foi, de facto, por um profundo instinto que a Verdade, a Beleza e a Bondade foram consideradas os maiores ideais do esforço humano. No entanto, eles desapareceram em palavras sombrias, e é apenas a nossa época atual que pode conferir-lhes uma realidade concreta.

(*) Ver Nota 1, diz o textto em Inglês, porém o link não conecta.

15 julho 2024

Os 300. Truth Justice

Por favor use o tradutor do Google. 


Truth Justice, X

https://x.com/SpartaJustice/status/1687404867323600897

See also de video ate the link above

THE COMMITTEE OF 300: The destruction and control of America and the World. The depopulation of millions of innocent people. The public execution of President John F. Kennedy. The control of U.S. Elections and elections around the world. The release of AIDS and deadly viruses.

This is the work of the insidious Committee of 300. How long will America and humanity allow them to continue this rule of corruption, death and destruction? They will not give up their power. It must be forcibly removed from them. They are moving forward with the following agenda unless we stop them. The Intent and Purpose of the Committee of 300 is to Bring to Pass the Following Conditions: A One World Government and one-unit monetary system under permanent non-elected hereditary Oligarch's who self select from among their numbers in the form of a feudal system as it was in the Middle Ages. In this One World entity, population will be limited by restrictions on the number of children per family, diseases, wars, famines, until 1 billion people who are useful to the ruling class, in areas which will be strictly and clearly defined, remain as the total world population. There will be no middle class, only rulers and servants. All laws will be uniform under a legal system of world courts practicing the same unified code of laws, backed up by a One World Government police force and a One World unified military to enforce laws in all former countries where no national boundaries shall exist. The system will be on the basis of a welfare state; those who are obedient and subservient to the One World Government will be rewarded with the means to live; those who are rebellious will simply be starved to death or be declared outlaws, thus a target for anyone who wishes to kill them. Privately owned firearms or weapons of any kind will be prohibited. Only one religion will be allowed and that will be in the form of a One World Government Church, which has been in existence since 1920 as we shall see. Satanism, Luciferianism and Witchcraft shall he recognized as legitimate One World Government curricula with no private or church schools. All Christian churches have already been subverted and Christianity will be a thing of the past in the One World Government. To induce a state where there is no individual freedom or any concept of liberty surviving, there shall be no such thing as republicanism, sovereignty or rights residing with the people. National pride and racial identity shall be stamped out and in the transition phase it shall be subject to the severest penalties to even mention one's racial origin. Each person shall be fully indoctrinated that he or she is a creature of the One World Government with an identification number clearly marked on their person so as to be readily accessible, which identifying number shall be in the master file of the NATO computer in Brussels, Belgium, subject to instant retrieval by any agency of the One World Government at any time. The master Files of the CIA, FBI, state and local police agencies, IRS, FEMA, Social Security shall be vastly expanded and form the basis of personal records of all individuals in the United States. Marriage shall be outlawed and there shall be no family life as we know it. Children will be removed from their parents at an early-age and brought up by wards as state property. Such an experiment was carried out in East Germany under Erich Honnecker when children were take away from parents considered by the state to be disloyal citizens. Women will be degraded through the continued process of "women's liberation" movements. Free sex shall be mandatory. Failure to comply at least once by the age of 20 shall be punishable by severe reprisals against her person. Self-abortion shall be taught and practiced after two children are born to a woman; such records shall be contained in the personal file of each woman in the One World Government's regional computers. If a woman falls pregnant after she has previously given birth to two children, she shall be forcibly removed to an abortion clinic for such an abortion and sterilization to be carried out. Pornography shall be promoted and be compulsory showing in every theater of cinema, including homosexual and lesbian pornography. The use of "recreational" drugs shall be compulsory, with each person allotted drug quotas which can be purchased at One World Government stores throughout the world. Mind control drugs will be expanded and usage become compulsory. Such mind control drugs shall be given in food and/or water supplies without the knowledge and/or consent of the people. Drug bars shall be set up, run by One World Government employees, where the slave-class shall be able to spend their free time. In this manner the non-elite masses will be reduced to the level and behavior of controlled animals with no will of their own and easily regimented and controlled. The economic system shall be based upon the ruling oligarchical class allowing just enough foods and services to be produced to keep the mass slave labor camps going. All wealth shall be aggregated in the hands of the elite members of the Committee of 300. Each individual shall be indoctrinated to understand that he or she is totally dependent upon the state for survival. The world shall be ruled by Committee of 300 Executive Decrees which become instant law. Courts of punishment and not courts of justice shall exist. Industry is to be totally destroyed along with nuclear powered energy systems. Only the Committee of 300 members and their elitists shall have the right to any of the earth's resources. Agriculture shall be solely in the hands of the Committee of 300 with food production strictly controlled. As these measures begin to take effect, large populations in the cities shall be forcibly removed to remote areas and those who refuse to go shall be exterminated in the manner of the One World Government experiment carried out by Pol Pot in Cambodia. Euthanasia for the terminally ill and the aged shall be compulsory. No cities shall be larger than a predetermined number as described in the work of Kalgeri. Essential workers will be moved to other cities if the one they are in becomes overpopulated. Other non-essential workers will be chosen at random and sent to underpopulated cities to fill "quotas." At least 4 billion "useless eaters" shall be eliminated by the year 2050 by means of limited wars, organized epidemics of fatal rapid-acting diseases and starvation. Energy, food and water shall be kept at subsistence levels for the non-elite, starting with the White populations of Western Europe and North America and then spreading to other races. The population of Canada, Western Europe and the United States will be decimated more rapidly than on other continents, until the world's population reaches a manageable level of 1 billion, of which 500 million will consist of Chinese and Japanese races, selected because they are people who have been regimented for centuries and who are accustomed to obeying authority without question. From time to time there shall be artificially contrived food and water shortages and medical care to remind the masses that their very existence depends on the goodwill of the Committee of 300. After the destruction of housing, auto, steel and heavy goods industries, there shall he limited housing, and industries of any kind allowed to remain shall be under the direction of NATO's Club of Rome as shall all scientific and space exploration development, limited to the elite under the control of the Committee of 300. Space weapons of all former nations shall be destroyed along with nuclear weapons. All essential and non-essential pharmaceutical products, doctors, dentists and health care workers will be registered in the central computer data bank and no medicine or medical care will he prescribed without express permission of regional controllers responsible for each city, town and village. The United States will be flooded by peoples of alien cultures who will eventually overwhelm America, people with no concept of what the United States Constitution stands for and who will, in consequence, do nothing to defend it, and in whose minds the concept of liberty and justice is so weak as to matter little. Food and shelter shall be the main concern. No central bank save the Bank of International Settlement and the World Bank shall be allowed to operate. Private banks will be outlawed. Remuneration for work performed shall be under a uniform predetermined scale throughout the One World Government. There shall be no wage disputes allowed, nor any diversion from the standard uniform scales of pay laid down by the One World Government. Those who break the law will be instantly executed. There shall be no cash or coinage in the hands of the non- elite. All transactions shall be carried out by means of digital currency which shall bear the identification number of the holder. Any person who in any way infringes the rules and regulations of the Committee of 300 shall have the use of his or her digital currency suspended for varying times according to the nature and severity of the infringement. Such persons will find, when they go to make purchases, that their digital currency is blacklisted and they will not be able to obtain services of any kind. Attempts to trade "old" coins, that is to say silver coins of previous and now defunct nations, shall be treated as a capital crime subject to the death penalty. All such coinage shall be required to be surrendered within a given time along with guns, rifles, explosives and automobiles. Only the elite and One World Government high-ranking functionaries will be allowed private transport, weapons, coinage and automobiles. If the offense is a serious one, the digital currency will be shut off at the checking point where it is presented. Thereafter that person shall not be able to obtain food, water, shelter and employment medical services, and shall be officially listed as an outlaw. Large bands of outlaws will thus be created and they will live in regions that best afford subsistence, subject to being hunted down and shot on sight. Persons assisting outlaws in any way whatsoever, shall likewise be shot. Outlaws who fail to surrender to the police or military after a declared period of time, shall have a former family member selected at random to serve prison terms in their stead. Rival factions and groups such as Arabs and Jews and African tribes shall have differences magnified and allowed to wage wars of extermination against each other under the eyes of NATO and U.N. observers. The same tactics will be used in Central and South America. These wars of attrition shall take place before the take-over of the One World Government and shall be engineered on every continent where large groups of people with ethnic and religious differences live, such as the Sikhs, Moslem Pakistanis and the Hindu Indians. Ethnic and religious differences shall be magnified and exacerbated and violent conflict as a means of "settling" their differences shall be encouraged and fostered. All information services and print media shall be under the control of the One World Government. Regular brainwashing control measures shall be passed off as "entertainment" in the manner in which it was practiced and became a fine art in the United States. Youths removed from "disloyal parents," shall receive special education designed to brutalize them. Youth of both sexes shall receive training to qualify as prison guards for the One World labor camp system. The above was written in 1991 by Dr. John Coleman. Dr. John Coleman was an Intelligence Officer for over 45 years and his book of truth is based on 20 years of relentless research. We can already see many of these things happening today. The Committee of 300 has already penetrated and subverted all governments through the World Economic Forum and United Nations to destroy the sovereign integrity of the nations represented by them. The Committee of 300 has already taken control of the education system in America with the intent and purpose of utterly and completely destroying it. They have now targeted our innocent children through homosexuality, transgenderism and pedophilia. They operate and control the world's Pedophile systems. The Committee of 300 must come to its swift end. They are in control of America right now and are the ones who orchestrated the fraudulent 2020 Election and put corrupt Biden in the White House. They will not allow Trump or Kennedy to be President of the United States. We must do what must be done. We must end the Committee of 300 once and for all for the sake of our innocent children and for the sake of all humanity. These are their names. These are the people that want to eliminate you and control you. These are the people who have been ruling our world for over 150 years through death and chaos inflicted upon billions of innocent people. These are the same people creating world wars for profits and deaths. These are the people behind engineered viruses and diseases that were released upon the world killing millions. These are the people that must be removed from our world. PAST AND PRESENT MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE OF 300 AS OF 1991: BILL GATES IS A NEW MEMBER Abergavemy, Marquis of. Acheson, Dean. Adeane, Lord Michael. Agnelli, Giovanni. Alba, Duke of. Aldington, Lord. Aleman, Miguel. Allihone, Professor T. E. Alsop Family Designate. Amory, Houghton. Anderson, Charles A. Anderson, Robert 0. Andreas, Dwayne. Asquith, Lord. Astor, John Jacob and successor, Waldorf. Aurangzeb, Descendants of. Austin, Paul. Baco, Sir Ranulph BalFour, Arthur. Balogh, Lord. Bancroft, Baron Stormont. Baring. Barnato, B. Barran, Sir John. Baxendell, Sir Peter. Beatrice of Savoy, Princess. Beaverbrook, Lord. Beck, Robert. Beeley, Sir Harold. Beit, Alfred. Benn, Anthony Wedgewood. Bennet, John W. Benneton, Gilberto or alternate Carlo. Bertie, Andrew. Besant, Sir Walter. Bethal, Lord Nicholas. Bialkin, David. Biao, Keng. Bingham, William. Binny, J. F. Blunt, Wilfred. Bonacassi, Franco Orsini. Bottcher, Fritz. Bradshaw, Thornton. Brandt, Willy. Brewster, Kingman. Buchan, Alastair. Buffet, Warren. Bullitt, William C. Bulwer-Lytton, Edward. Bundy, McGeorge. Bundy, William. Bush, George. Cabot, John. Family Designate. Caccia, Baron Harold Anthony. Cadman, Sir John. Califano, Joseph. Carrington, Lord. Carter, Edward. Catlin, Donat. Catto, Lord. Cavendish, Victor C. W. Duke of Devonshire. Chamberlain, Houston Stewart. Chang, V. F. Chechirin, Georgi or Family Designate. Churchill, Winston. Cicireni, V. or Family Designate. Cini, Count Vittorio. Clark, Howard. Cleveland, Amory. Cleveland, Harland. Clifford, Clark. Cobold, Lord. Coffin, the Rev William Sloane. Constanti, House of Orange. Cooper, John. Family Designate. Coudenhove-Kalergi, Count. Cowdray, Lord. Cox, Sir Percy. Cromer, Lord Evelyn Baring. Crowther, Sir Eric. Cumming, Sir Mansfield. Curtis, Lionel. d'Arcy, William K. D'Avignon, Count Etienne. Danner, Jean Duroc. Davis, John W. de Benneditti, Carlo. De Bruyne, Dirk. De Gunzberg, Baron Alain. De Lamater, Major General Walter. De Menil, Jean. De Vries, Rimmer. de Zulueta, Sir Philip. de'Aremberg, Marquis Charles Louis. Delano. Family Designate. Dent, R. Deterding, Sir Henri. di Spadaforas, Count Guitierez, (House Douglas-Home, Sir Alec. Drake, Sir Eric. Duchene, Francois. DuPont. Edward, Duke of Kent. Eisenberg, Shaul. Elliott, Nicholas. Elliott, William Yandel. Elsworthy, Lord. Farmer, Victor. Forbes, John M. Foscaro, Pierre. France, Sir Arnold. Fraser, Sir Hugh. Frederik IX, King of Denmark Family Designate. Freres, Lazard. Frescobaldi, Lamberto. Fribourg, Michael. Gabor, Dennis. Gallatin, Albert. Family Designate. Gardner, Richard. Gates, William Henry III Geddes, Sir Auckland. Geddes, Sir Reay. George, Lloyd. Giffen, James. Gilmer, John D. Giustiniani, Justin. Gladstone, Lord. Gloucestor, The Duke of. Gordon, Walter Lockhart. Grace, Peter J. Greenhill, Lord Dennis Arthur. Greenhill, Sir Dennis. Grey, Sir Edward. Gyllenhammar, Pierres. Haakon, King of Norway. Haig, Sir Douglas. Hailsham, Lord. Haldane, Richard Burdone. Halifax, Lord. Hall, Sir Peter Vickers. Hambro, Sir Jocelyn. Hamilton, Cyril. Harriman, Averill. Hart, Sir Robert. Hartman, Arthur H. Healey, Dennis. Helsby, Lord. Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. Her Majesty Queen Juliana. Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrix. Her Royal Highness Queen Margreta. Heseltine, Sir William. Hesse, Grand Duke descendants, Family Designate. Hoffman, Paul G. Holland, William. House of Braganza. House of Hohenzollern. House, Colonel Mandel. Howe, Sir Geoffrey. Hughes, Thomas H. Hugo, Thieman. Hutchins, Robert M. Huxley, Aldous. Inchcape, Lord. Jamieson, Ken. Japhet, Ernst Israel. Jay, John. Family Designate. Keynes, John Maynard. Jodry, J. J. Joseph, Sir Keith. Katz, Milton. Kaufman, Asher. Keith, Sir Kenneth. Keswick, Sir William Johnston, or Keswick, H.N.L. Keswick, William Johnston. Kimberly, Lord. King, Dr. Alexander. Kirk, Grayson L. Kissinger, Henry. Kitchener, Lord Horatio. Kohnstamm, Max. Korsch, Karl. Lambert, Baron Pierre. Lawrence, G. Lazar. Lehrman, Lewis. Lever, Sir Harold. Lewin, Dr. Kurt. Lippmann, Walter. Livingstone, Robert R. Family Designate. Lockhart, Bruce. Lockhart, Gordon. Linowitz, S. Loudon, Sir John. Luzzatto, Pieipaolo. Mackay, Lord, of Clasfern. Mackay-Tallack, Sir Hugh. Mackinder, Halford. MacMillan, Harold. Matheson, Jardine. Mazzini, Gueseppi. McClaughlin, W. E. McCloy, John J. McFadyean, Sir Andrew. McGhee, George. McMillan, Harold. Mellon, Andrew. Mellon, William Larimer or Family Designate. Meyer, Frank. Michener, Roland. Mikovan, Anastas. Milner, Lord Alfred. Mitterand, Francois. Monett, Jean. Montague, Samuel. Montefiore, Lord Sebag or Bishop Hugh. Morgan, John P. Mott, Stewart. Mountain, Sir Brian Edward. Mountain, Sir Dennis. Mountbatten, Lord Louis. Munthe, A., or family designate. Naisbitt, John. Neeman, Yuval. Newbigging, David. Nicols, Lord Nicholas of Bethal. Norman, Montague. O'Brien of Lotherby, Lord. Ogilvie, Angus. Okita, Saburo. Oldfield, Sir Morris. Oppenheimer, Sir Earnest, and successor, Harry. Ormsby Gore, David (Lord Harlech). Orsini, Franco Bonacassi. Ortolani. Umberto. Ostiguy, J.P.W. Paley, William S. Pallavacini. Palme, Olaf. Palmerston. Palmstierna, Jacob. Pao, Y.K. Pease, Richard T. Peccei, Aurellio. Peek, Sir Edmund. Pellegreno, Michael, Cardinal. Perkins, Nelson. Pestel, Eduard. Peterson, Rudolph. Petterson, Peter G. Petty, John R. Philip, Prince, Duke of Edinburgh. Piercy, George. Pinchott, Gifford. Pratt, Charles. Price Waterhouse, Designate. Radziwall. Ranier, Prince. Raskob, John Jacob. Recanati. Rees, John Rawlings. Rees, John. Rennie, Sir John. Rettinger, Joseph. Rhodes, Cecil John. Rockefeller, David. Role, Lord Eric of Ipsden. Rosenthal, Morton. Rostow, Eugene. Rothmere, Lord. Rothschild Elie de or Edmon de and/or Baron Rothschild Runcie, Dr. Robert. Russell, Lord John. Russell, Sir Bertrand. Saint Gouers, Jean. Salisbury, Marquisse de Robert Gascoiugne Cecil. Shelburne, The Salisbury, Lord. Samuel, Sir Marcus. Sandberg, M. G. Sarnoff, Robert. Schmidheiny, Stephan or alternate brothers Thomas, Alexander. Schoenberg, Andrew. Schroeder. Schultz, George. Schwartzenburg, E. Shawcross, Sir Hartley. Sheridan, Walter. Shiloach, Rubin. Silitoe, Sir Percy. Simon, William. Sloan, Alfred P. Smuts, Jan. Spelman. Sproull, Robert. Stals, Dr. C. Stamp, Lord Family designate. Steel, David. Stiger, George. Strathmore, Lord. Strong, Sir Kenneth. Strong, Maurice. Sutherland. Swathling, Lord. Swire, J. K. Tasse, G. Or Family Designate. Temple, Sir R. Thompson, William Boyce. Thompson, Lord. Thyssen-Bornamisza, Baron Hans Henrich. Trevelyn, Lord Humphrey. Turner, Sir Mark. Turner, Ted. Tyron, Lord. Urquidi, Victor. Van Den Broek, H. Vanderbilt. Vance, Cyrus. Verity, William C. Vesty, Lord Amuel. Vickers, Sir Geoffrey. Villiers, Gerald Hyde family alternate. Volpi, Count. von Finck, Baron August. von Hapsburg, Archduke Otto, House of Hapsburg-Lorraine. Von Thurn and Taxis, Max. Wallenberg, Peter or Family Designate. Wang, Kwan Cheng, Dr. Warburg, S. C. Ward Jackson, Lady Barbara. Warner, Rawleigh. Warnke, Paul. Warren, Earl. Watson, Thomas. Webb, Sydney. Weill, David. Weill, Dr. Andrew. Weinberger, Sir Caspar. Weizman, Chaim. Wells, H. G. Wheetman, Pearson (Lord Cowdray). White, Sir Dick Goldsmith. Whitney, Straight. Wiseman, Sir William. Wittelsbach. Wolfson, Sir Isaac. Wood, Charles. Young, Owen. Most Presidents and Prime Ministers around the world are controlled and were installed by the Committee of 300. There are thousands of people such as Klaus Schwab, leader of the World Economic Forum who work for the Committee of 300 to accomplish their will and purpose but are not direct members of the Committee of 300. They too must be removed from our society. The Committee of 300 also controls all the intelligence agencies such as MI6 and the CIA which are their most powerful tools to accomplish their goals worldwide. To restore America and humanity we must do away with the Committee of 300. This is the head of the snake that must be cut off. It will take a global effort of bravery and action. It must be done or we will lose America and the rest of the world to a future of global tyranny. They have already killed millions of innocent people and plan on killing billions more. They are coming after our children, they are sexualizing them and want to legalize Pedophilia. They will not stop unless we physically stop them by force. This is the reality of humanities fate. Criminals and mass murderers do not surrender their power. It must be taken from them for the sake of all humanity. They think they are gods themselves, the Olympians who have the right to decide who lives and who dies. They are gravely mistaken and their rule must come to a swift end.

03 junho 2024

Direito de sentar em carteiras. John Barnwell

 História real publicada no Facebook por John Barnwell/Kim Brixius

Tradução Sonia von Homrich


Em setembro de 2005, no primeiro dia de escola, Martha Cothren, professora de história da Robinson High School, em Little Rock, fez algo para não ser esquecido. No primeiro dia de aula, com a permissão do superintendente da escola, do diretor e do supervisor do edifício, ela removeu todas as carteiras em sua sala de aula. Quando as crianças do primeiro período entraram na sala, descobriram que não havia carteiras.

'Sra. Cothren, onde estão nossas mesas?

Ela respondeu: 'Vocês não pode ter uma mesa até vocês me dizerem como ganharam o direito de sentar em uma carteira'.

Eles responderam: 'Bem, talvez sejam nossas notas'. "Não", disse ela.

"Talvez seja o nosso comportamento." Ela disse a eles: 'Não, nem é seu comportamento'.

E assim, eles vieram e foram, primeiro período, segundo período, terceiro período. Ainda não havia carteiras na sala de aula. As crianças ligaram para os pais para lhes contar o que estava acontecendo e, no início da tarde, as equipes de notícias de televisão começaram a se reunir na escola para relatar sobre esse professor louco que havia tirado todas as carteiras de sua sala.

O período final do dia chegou e, quando os estudantes confusos encontraram assentos no chão da sala de aula sem carteira. Martha Cothren disse: 'Ao longo do dia, ninguém conseguiu me dizer exatamente o que ele fez para ganhar o direito de sentar-se nas carteiras que são normalmente encontradas nesta sala de aula. Agora vou lhes contar. '

Nesse ponto, Martha Cothren foi até a porta de sua sala de aula e a abriu. Vinte e sete (27) veteranos dos EUA, todos de uniforme, entraram na sala de aula, cada um carregando uma carteira da escola. Os veteranos começaram a colocar as carteiras da escola em fileiras e depois se aproximavam e ficaram ao lado da parede. Quando o último soldado havia colocado a carteira final no lugar é que essas crianças começaram a entender, talvez pela primeira vez em suas vidas, como o direito de sentar nessas carteiras havia sido conquistado.

Martha disse: 'Você não ganhou o direito de sentar nessas carteiras. Esses heróis fizeram isso por você. Eles colocaram as carteiras aqui para você. Eles foram até o meio do mundo, desistindo de sua educação e interrompendo suas carreiras e famílias para que você possa ter a liberdade que tem. Agora, cabe a você sentar-se nelas. É sua responsabilidade aprender, ser um bom aluno, ser um bom cidadão. Eles pagaram o preço para que você pudesse ter a liberdade de obter uma educação. Nunca se esqueça.”

A propósito, esta é uma história verdadeira. E esse professor foi laureado como o professor do ano pelos Veteranos de Guerras no Exterior para o Estado do Arkansas em 2006. Ela é filha de um  prisioneiro de guerra (pow) da Segunda Guerra Mundial.

Você acha que vale a pena passar esse email  para que outros também não esqueçam, que as liberdades que temos neste grande país foram conquistadas por nossos veteranos dos EUA? ... Eu fiz.

Lembremos sempre dos homens e mulheres de nossas forças armadas e dos direitos que conquistaram por nós.

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In September of 2005, on the first day of school, Martha Cothren, a History teacher at Robinson High School in Little Rock, did something not to be forgotten. On the first day of school, with the permission of the school superintendent, the principal and the building supervisor, she removed all of the desks in her classroom. When the first period kids entered the room they discovered that there were no desks.

'Ms. Cothren, where are our desks?'

She replied, 'You can't have a desk until you tell me how you earn the right to sit at a desk.'

They thought, 'Well, maybe it's our grades.' 'No,' she said.

'Maybe it's our behavior.' She told them, 'No, it's not even your behavior.'

And so, they came and went, the first period, second period, third period. Still no desks in the classroom. Kids called their parents to tell them what was happening and by early afternoon television news crews had started gathering at the school to report about this crazy teacher who had taken all the desks out of her room.

The final period of the day came and as the puzzled students found seats on the floor of the desk-less classroom. Martha Cothren said, 'Throughout the day no one has been able to tell me just what he or she has done to earn the right to sit at the desks that are ordinarily found in this classroom. Now I am going to tell you.'

At this point, Martha Cothren went over to the door of her classroom and opened it. Twenty-seven (27) U.S. Veterans, all in uniform, walked into that classroom, each one carrying a school desk. The Vets began placing the school desks in rows, and then they would walk over and stand alongside the wall. By the time the last soldier had set the final desk in place those kids started to understand, perhaps for the first time in their lives, just how the right to sit at those desks had been earned.

Martha said, 'You didn't earn the right to sit at these desks. These heroes did it for you. They placed the desks here for you. They went halfway around the world, giving up their education and interrupting their careers and families so you could have the freedom you have. Now, it's up to you to sit in them. It is your responsibility to learn, to be good students, to be good citizens. They paid the price so that you could have the freedom to get an education. Don't ever forget it.'

By the way, this is a true story. And this teacher was awarded the Veterans of Foreign Wars Teacher of the Year for the State of Arkansas in 2006. She is the daughter of a WWII POW.

Do you think this email is worth passing along so others won't forget either, that the freedoms we have in this great country were earned by our U.S. Veterans?... I did.

Let us always remember the men and women of our military and the rights they have won for us.


Educar para o mundo atual. Rudolf Steiner.

 

Amigos, são muitas as palestras sobre Educação Waldorf, criada por Rudolf Steiner., o fundador da Ciência Espiritual, ANTROPOSOFIA.  Abaixo, o link para a Editora Antroposófica que traduziu para português, algumas destas palestras. 

Atenção: no lado esquerdo desta postagem, tem a opção de ler o texto abaixo na língua que você escolher. 

Sonia von Homrich 


Rudolf Steiner. Economia da Alma: Corpo, Alma e Espírito na Educação Waldorf. GA 302 12. Soul Economy : Body, Soul and Spirit in Waldorf Education. GA 302 XII. 

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I have often said that it is impossible to deal with educational matters without fully considering the entire life situation of our time, taking into account the general milieu into which education is placed. I will refrain from introducing any extraneous matter into our considerations here, but what I want to say now definitely belongs to our theme.

News has come to us that in Eastern Europe a new pedagogy is being worked out for the benefit of those who are still recognized there, those who belong to the Radical Socialist Party. Because nothing that was acceptable prior to the Revolution is now considered correct, new educational methods are being worked out there. This is being done by purely outward means. We are told that one of the leaders in modern Russia has been commissioned to write the history of the Communist Party. The new government has given him one month to complete his task. During this month, he will also have to do some practical work at the Moscow Center. As a result of these activities, a book is to be published that will become the official model for reeducating all those being recognized as proper Russians. Another party member has been commissioned to write a history of the workers’ movement in the West and a history of international communism. While compiling his authoritative account, he, too, has been given other work to do, and after six weeks he is supposed to have this work completed. All true Soviet Russians are supposed to study this book. Forgive me, I believe that the second writer was actually given two months. A third person was commissioned to publish a theory of Marxism, and it was he who was given six weeks to deliver the book. With this book, every true Russian will become familiar with the new conditions in the East. According to these same methods, several other persons have been assigned to write new Russian literature. They have all been allotted a fixed time schedule in which to complete their orders. And they have all been told what other work they must do during the time of writing. The party member selected to write the book about Marxism has also been made coeditor of Pravda.

Why do I bring this up today? Because, basically, what is happening in Soviet Russia today is the ultimate consequence of what lives in all of us, insofar as we represent today’s civilization. People will not admit that events in Russia are merely the ultimate consequences of our own situation, taken to extremes in Eastern Europe. The absurdity of communist ideology is that it has determined and officially declared what a citizen must know; it does not ask what people can do to become real human beings who are properly integrated into the world’s fabric.

Teachers are called on to bring the utmost respect for soul and spirit to their lessons. Without this they will fail, as though they lacked the most fundamental artistic and scientific understanding. Therefore, the first prerequisite of Waldorf teachers is reverence for the soul and spiritual potential that children bring with them into the world. When facing the children, teachers must be filled with an awareness that they are dealing with innately free human beings. With this attitude, teachers can work out educational principles and methods that safeguard the children’s inborn freedom so that in later life, when they look back at their school days, they will not find any infringement on their personal freedom, not even in the later effects of their education.

To clarify the implications of these statements, we can ask ourselves, what becomes of those whose physical idiosyncrasies are not dealt with properly during childhood? Childish idiosyncrasies continue into later life, and if you wonder what sort of effect they will have when children become adults, I will answer by saying something that may seem rather odd and surprising. Peculiar physical habits in early childhood, if left untreated, degenerate and become the causes of illnesses later on. You must realize, in all seriousness, that characteristic physical tendencies in childhood, if allowed to continue unchanged, become causes of illness. Such knowledge will give you the right impulse for a proper care that in no way conflicts with the deepest respect for human freedom.

By comparison, imagine someone who, down to the deepest fibers of her being, is enthusiastic about the inner human freedom. Imagine she falls ill and must call a doctor. The doctor cures her by using the best means available today for the art of healing. Would such a person ever feel that her personal freedom had been interfered with? Never. What meets a person in this way would never impinge upon one’s inner freedom.

A similar feeling must be present in those who are engaged in the art of education. They should have the willingness and the ability to see the nature of their own calling as being similar to that of a doctor in relation to patients. Education naturally exists in its own right, and it certainly is not simply therapy in the true sense of the word. But there is a certain relationship and similarity between the work of a doctor and that of a teacher that justifies comparison.

When students leave school in their mid-teens, it is time for us to examine again whether, during their school years from the change of teeth to the coming of puberty, we have done our best to help and equip them for later life. (During the coming days, we will deal with the esthetic and moral aspects of education and look more closely at the stage of puberty. For now, we will consider the more general human aspects.) We must realize that, during their past school years, we have been dealing mainly with their ether body of formative forces, and that the soul life (of which more will be said later) was just beginning to manifest toward the approach of graduation.

We must consider the next stage, which begins with the fourteenth to fifteenth years and continues until the beginning of the twenties, a time when a young man or woman must face the task of fitting more and more into outer life. We have already seen how children gradually take hold of the body, finally incarnating right into the skeleton, and how, by doing so, they connect more and more with the external world and adapt to outer conditions. Fundamentally, this process continues until the early twenties, after which comes a very important period of life. Although, as teachers, we no longer have any direct influence over the young person at this stage, we have in fact already done a great deal in this way during the previous years, and this will become apparent during the early to the late twenties.

After leaving school, young people must train for a vocation. Now they no longer receive what come, mainly from human nature itself, but rather what has become part of the civilization we live in, at least in terms of the chosen trade or profession. Now the young person has to be adaptable to certain forms of specialization. In our Waldorf school, we try to prepare students to step into life by introducing practical crafts such as spinning and weaving to our students of fourteen and fifteen. Practical experience in such crafts is not important only for future spinners or weavers but for all those who want to be able to do whatever a situation may demand. It is nevertheless important to introduce the right activities at the right time.

What has been cultivated in a child’s ether body during early school years emerges again in the soul sphere of young people during their twenties, the time when they must enter a profession. The way they were treated at school will play a large role in whether they respond to outer conditions clumsily, reluctantly, full of inhibitions, or skillfully and with sufficient inner strength to overcome obstacles. During their twenties, young people become aware of how the experiences of their school years first went underground, as it were, while they trained for a trade or profession, only to surface again in form of capacities, such as being able to handle certain situations or fit oneself into life in the right way. Teachers who are aware of these facts will pay attention to the critical moments in their students’ lives between the change of teeth and puberty.

I have often spoken about the important turning point that appears during the ninth to tenth years. Toward the twelfth year, another important change takes place, which I have also mentioned. Children of six or seven, when entering school, are “one great sensory organ,” as I have called them. At this stage, much has already been absorbed through imitation. Children have also been occupied with the inner processes of molding and sculpting the organs, and they bring the results to school. Now, everything that teachers do with the children, until the turning point around nine, should have a formative effect, but in a way that stimulates them to participate freely and actively in this inner shaping. I indicated this with my strong appeal for an artistic approach during the introductions to reading, writing, and arithmetic. The artistic element is particularly important at this age.

All teaching during the early school years must begin with the child’s will sphere, and only gradually should it lead over toward the intellect. Those who recognize this will pay special attention to educating the child’s will. They will know that children must learn to drive out the will forces from their organism, but in the right way. To do this, their will activities must be tinged with the element of feeling. It is not enough for teachers to do different things with the children; they must also develop sympathy and antipathy according to what they are doing. And the musical element, apart from music per se, offers the best means for achieving this. Thus, as soon as children are brought to us, we ought to immerse them in the element of music, not just through singing but also by letting them make music with simple instruments. Thus, young students will not only nurture an esthetic sense, but most of all (though indirectly), they will learn how to use and control will forces in a harmonious way.

Children bring many inborn gifts to school. Inwardly they are natural sculptors, and we can draw on these gifts as well as their other hidden talents. For instance, we can let children do all kinds of things on paper with paints (even though this might be inconvenient for teachers), and in this way we introduce them to the secrets of color. It is really fascinating to observe how children relate to color when left alone to cover a white surface with various colors. What they produce in a seemingly haphazard way is not at all meaningless, but in all the blotches and smears we can detect a certain color harmony resulting from an inborn relationship to the world of color. We must be careful, however, not to let children use the solid blocks of color that are sold in children’s paint boxes, with which they are supposed to paint directly from the blocks onto paper. This has a damaging effect, even in the case of painting as art. One should paint with liquid colors already dissolved in water or some other suitable liquid. It is important, especially for children, to develop an intimate relationship with color. If we use thick paints from a palette, we do not have the same intimate relationship to color as we do when we use liquid colors from bottles.

In a painting lesson, you might say to a child, “What you have painted is really beautiful. You put red in the middle, and all the other colors around it go well with the red. Everything you painted fits well with the red in the middle. Now try to do it the other way round. Where you have red, paint blue, and then paint around it all the other colors so that they also go well with the blue in the middle.” Not only will this child be tremendously stimulated by such an exercise, but by working out a transposition of colors—possibly with help from the teacher—the child will gain a great deal toward establishing an inner relationship to the world in general.

However inconvenient it may be for the teachers, they should always encourage young students to form all sorts of shapes out of any suitable material they can lay their hands on. Of course, we should avoid letting them get unduly dirty and messy, since this can be a real nuisance. But children gain far more from these creative activities than they would by simply remaining clean and tidy. In other words, it is truly valuable for children, especially during the early years, to experience the artistic element.

Anything required of children must be induced first in a way that is appropriate to their nature. If artistic activities are introduced as described, learning other subjects becomes easier. Foreign languages, for example, will be learned with far greater ease if students have done artistic work beforehand. I already said that children should learn foreign languages at a very early age, if possible as soon as they enter school.

Nowadays, we often encounter somewhat fanatical attitudes; something that in itself is quite right and justifiable tends to become exaggerated to the point of fanatical extremism. And teaching foreign languages is no exception. Children learn their native tongue naturally, without any grammatical consciousness, and this is how it should be. And when they enter school, they should learn foreign languages in a similar way, without grammatical awareness, but now the process of learning a language is naturally more mature and conscious.

During the tenth year, at the turning point of life mentioned several times, a new situation calls for an introduction to the first fundamentals of grammar. These should be taught without any pedantry whatever. It is necessary to take this new step for the benefit of the children’s healthy development, because at this age they must make a transition from a predominantly feeling approach toward life to one in which they must develop their I-consciousness. Whatever young people do now must be done more consciously than before. Consequently, we introduce a more conscious and intellectual element into the language that students have already learned to speak, write, and read. But when doing this, we must avoid pedantic grammar exercises. Rather, we should give them stimulating practice in recognizing and applying fundamental rules. At this stage, children really need the logical support that grammar can give, so that they do not have to puzzle repeatedly over how to express themselves correctly.

We must realize that language contains two main elements that always interact with each other—an emotional, or feeling, element and an intellectual, thinking element. I would like to illustrate this with a quote from Goethe’s Faust:

Grey, dear friend, is every theory
And green the golden tree of life.

I do not expect that our you (who have come mainly from the West) should study all the commentaries on Goethe’s Faust, since there are enough to fill a library. But if you did, you would make a strange discovery. When coming to this sentence in Faust, you would most likely find a newly numbered remark at the bottom of the page (at least a four-digit number because of all the many explanations already given), and you would find a comment about the lack of logic in this sentence. Despite the poetic license granted to any reputable author (so the commentator might point out), the colors of the tree in this stanza do not make sense. A “golden tree”—could he mean an orange tree? But then, of course, it would not be green either. If it were an ordinary tree, it would not be golden. Perhaps Goethe was thinking of an artificial tree? In any case (a typical commentary would continue), a tree cannot be golden and green at the same time. Then there is the other problem of a grey theory. How can a theory be grey if it is invisible? In this way, many commentaries point out the lack of logic in this sentence.

FONTE

https://rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA303/English/AP2003/19220103d01.html

Em português https://www.antroposofica.com.br/


13 maio 2024

Bioquímica Ciência Espiritual. Otto Wolff

 

Fundamentos da bioquímica à Luz da Ciência Espiritual

Autor: Otto Wolff

Tradutores: Arie van Ameringen e Judith Erb

As Edições Perceval

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https://www.editionsperceval-ca.com/ 

Tradução para português e notas: Sonia von Homrich

In English Language, below:

 

'Este livro oferece uma refrescante e diferente perspectiva! Em contraste ao método atomístico convencional "de baixo para cima" , o ponto de partida do autor é uma abordagem holística do "espírito para a matéria" fundamentada no entendimento antroposófico da substância. Longe de perder o contato com a realidade, o leitor familiarizado com os princípios básicos da antroposofia será recompensado com a sensação de que ele também pode participar da 'experiência interior' da química da vida ''

 

A tradução em inglês dos fundamentos da bioquímica de Otto Wolff foi apresentada pela primeira vez aos participantes da reunião anual da Seção de Ciências Naturais em Ann Arbor em maio de 2023. Os tradutores, Arie Van Ameringen e Judith Erb tiveram a oportunidade de compartilhar o processo e os frutos de sua longa colaboração, a saber, uma edição impressa de alta qualidade deste tão esperado livro. Otto Wolff (1921-2003), o editor dos clássicos volumes da “Abordagem Antroposófica da Medicina”, (conhecida também como Medicina Antroposófica) , foi um médico pioneiro, pesquisador, escritor prolífico e educador que viajou extensivamente e ensinou os princípios da medicina antroposófica não apenas para gerações de médicos na Europa, mas também nas Américas e África.

(Ele esteve no Brasil dando palestras)

Um curso em bioquímica é pré-requisito no estudo de ciências biológicas e medicina o que juntamente com a biofísica, anatomia, fisiologia e biologia celular, constituem o currículo central dos estudos pré-clínicos. Os estudantes suficientemente acordados que embarcam em um estudo da bioquímica sentir-se-ão desanimados quando descobrirem que a abordagem convencional da 'química da vida' não é diferente da adotada no estudo da química inorgânica ou orgânica. Várias substâncias e vias metabólicas são exploradas em grande profundidade; todavia, as pessoas experimentam abstratamente, de uma perspectiva unidimensional e "externa".

Este livro oferece uma perspectiva diferente e refrescante! Em contraste com o método atomístico "de baixo para cima" convencional, o ponto de partida do autor é uma abordagem holística de "espírito de matéria" fundamentada no entendimento antroposófico da substância. Longe de perder o contato com a realidade, um leitor familiarizado com os princípios básicos da antroposofia será recompensado com a sensação de que ela também pode participar da "experiência interior" da química da vida.

No lugar de uma listagem proverbial de elementos químicos, aminoácidos, açúcares e gorduras, como é o caso dos textos convencionais, o autor oferece uma descrição lúcida da vida em si, sua origem cósmica e a natureza das substâncias que servem para seu apoio. Em suas próprias palavras:

"... a maneira de pensar atual [...] assume a primazia da matéria e tenta, de acordo com isto, explicar as propriedades da substância, de plantas vivas a seres humanos, a partir do “arranjo " atômico. [...] No entanto, o ponto de partida não é a matéria, mas a vida. É um fato que a vida nunca pode surgir da matéria morta, mas vem da luz, das forças precedentes e superordenadas.” (p. 375)

Nos capítulos introdutórios, os princípios básicos da bioquímica espiritual-científica são discutidos com os títulos que variam em  Vida, Substância, Matéria e Água para Ácidos e Bases na Formação de Sal. É um fato notável que dos 92 elementos químicos que ocorrem naturalmente no sistema periódico, hidrogênio, oxigênio, carbono e nitrogênio constituem a grande maioria das substâncias que servem como "vasos da vida".

Eles são descritos ontologicamente a partir da perspectiva do desenvolvimento evolucionário da Terra, bem como em seu estado atual como mediadores das forças cósmicas e terrenas. O carbono, em particular, se destaca como o transportador de estrutura e forma de praticamente todas as substâncias orgânicas. Sua importância é enfatizada pelo fato de que a química orgânica é geralmente conhecida como “química do carbono”. Somente o carbono pode se unir, absorver e reter esta forma e o poder vivo da luz, que pode então ser encontrado em sua estrutura.  (p. 56)

As ciências da vida contemporânea foram reduzidas à biologia celular e molecular e a tendência prevalece para ver todos os processos da doença como uma espécie de mutação genética e/ou um defeito metabólico químico. É convicção do autor que, ao reduzir os fenômenos da vida a genes e substâncias químicas, a pessoa é impedida de compreender as forças e qualidades "que residem acima do mundo morto".  Por exemplo, a origem da palavra "substância" (do Latim sub-stare) aponta para o que está abaixo e é apenas um vaso para aquilo que a dota com suas características essenciais, as imponderáveis, seja na dimensão da vida, da alma, ou do espírito.  Este último pode não ser quimicamente detectável, porém pode ser percebido por um observador astuto e educado no método “Goetheano” e que, como o autor, aprendeu a "ler o Livro da Natureza". A metodologia usada pelo autor é explicada em detalhes consideráveis na seção final do livro. Pode ser útil para aqueles que estão menos familiarizados com essa abordagem, consultar este capítulo antes de se aprofundar investigação na parte do meio do livro, onde substâncias e processos metabólicos são elaborados em grandes detalhes.

Açúcares, proteínas, lipídios e minerais são sistematicamente elaborados em termos de estrutura, síntese e degradação nos principais capítulos do livro. Em vez de serem meros "blocos de construção" que podem ser analisados até sua estrutura química e atômica, esses portadores de vida, alma e espírito se tornam fios na tapeçaria da criação. A declaração de Francesco Redi (1626-1698) de que “a vida vem apenas da vida”, atribuída ao misticismo medieval pela biologia convencional, é totalmente confirmada nas imagens vivas narradas com maestria pelo autor.

Por exemplo, na seção de Carboidratos, o autor descreve como, no processo de fotossíntese, as plantas assimilam a luz, o calor e o CO2 morto, transformando-os em açúcares e amidos e moldam-nos em elementos estruturais vegetais, folhas, frutas e sementes. Estes, por sua vez, servem como nutrientes e fontes de "energia", isto é, de calor e luz internos em animais e humanos. Neste sentido, a glicose não pode realmente ser chamada de nutriente, mas pertence a uma categoria própria, de si mesma.  É um fato notável que dos muitos tipos diferentes de açúcares de 6 carbonos (hexoses), a vida animal e humana tem uma preferência específica pela D-glicose. Embora pareça paradoxal que a mesma substância apoie duas fisiologias muito diferentes, a saber, animal e humana, isso pode ser explicado com base na qual o nível de glicose intimamente controlado no sangue humano cumpre o papel adicional de ser o transportador da organização do EU (ego-organização).  Esta última é a característica explicitamente humana que nos dota com “estar ereto, pensamento e memória”. Aqui, de acordo com o autor, somos confrontados com um profundo mistério através do qual os seis Elohim ou Espíritos de Forma, os criadores primordiais da Terra e que dotaram, concederam o Eu-Humano expressar sua atividade através da luz e calor liberados na "combustão" metabólica de glicose. É instrutivo ver como uma molécula de carbono de seis carbonos pode servir como transportadora de forças para plantas, animais e forças formativas humanas.

Métodos analíticos, como a espectrometria de absorção, permitem não apenas a identificação da composição química das substâncias, mas também a diferenciação entre a tridimensional estrutura de quimicamente idênticas moléculas.  Desatentos da existência do corpo astral e da organização do EU (ego), a bioquímica convencional é forçada aqui a simplesmente aceitar os fatos sem mais explicações.

Outro exemplo de uma "substância universal" que faz a mediação das atividades do etérico, do astral e o atividades-do-Eu é o colesterol. É encontrado em praticamente todas as membranas celulares, apontando para a importância dessa substância para a edificação ou função anabólica do corpo etérico, que, sem o direcionamento e o efeito formativo do corpo astral, resultaria na deposição de um tecido meramente semelhante ao de uma planta.

O portador destes efeitos anabólicos são hormônios esteroides, como testosterona, estrogênio, progestina e corticosteroide, que, de fato, são produtos de degradação do metabolismo do colesterol que ocorrem no córtex adrenal e gônadas. Outros derivados bem conhecidos do colesterol são a vitamina D3 (uma forma natural de vitamina D produzida pela luz solar na pele humana) e sais biliares. A vitamina D3 é um fator essencial na mineralização do esqueleto, a função da organização-do-Eu que nos dá a qualidade de estarmos eretos e o apoio. Os sais biliares, por outro lado, assistem o Eu em sua atividade digestiva de dieta de gorduras.

No penúltimo capítulo “A Tabela Periódica de Elementos”, o autor compartilha seus profundos insights sobre a natureza dos elementos químicos, seu lugar no stratum da Terra, como refletido no sistema periódico e sua relação com a química da vida. “Finalmente, a peculiaridade do ser humano como um ser espiritual consiste no fato de que ele pode realmente se conectar com a Terra pela vida, ou seja, a vida de significância da substância, especialmente o carbono. Neste aspecto, o ser humano ganha uma possibilidade que não é dada a seres espirituais superiores.  A mencionada universalidade do carbono possibilita não apenas a variedade infinita de vida, mas também a transformação da vida biológica na vida espiritual. Uma imagem deste desenvolvimento pode ser o diamante. Por uma compressão extraordinária e a dureza resultante, absorveu intensivamente forças terrestres, mas levou-as à pureza, clareza e permeabilidade à luz.  Assim, desde os tempos antigos, o diamante tem sido o símbolo do objetivo do desenvolvimento mais nobre da humanidade. No final da Idade Média, era objetivo dos Alquimistas Rosacruz alcançar a sabedoria através do conhecimento espiritual da matéria. Então, eles viram no carbono ou no diamante a pedra filosofal como uma imagem para este aspirado desenvolvimento.” (p. 378)

Há pouca dúvida de que o parágrafo acima resume o próprio caminho Rosacruz moderno do autor para o conhecimento. Com este livro, Otto Wolff teve sucesso em transformar o campo abrangente da bioquímica de tal maneira que inspirará todos os leitores que almejam um profundo entendimento (compreensão) dos processos vivos na natureza.

Os tradutores e editores devem ser parabenizados por disponibilizar este texto habilmente traduzido e eminentemente legível.

Branko Furst, Médico

 

 

Fundamentals of Biochemistry in the Light of Spiritual Science

Author: Otto Wolff

Translators: Arie van Ameringen and Judith Erb

Les Éditions Perceval

https://www.editionsperceval-ca.com/

 

The English translation of Otto Wolff’s Fundamentals of Biochemistry was first presented to the participants of the annual Natural Science Section meeting in Ann Arbor in May 2023. The translators, Arie van Ameringen and Judith Erb were given the opportunity to share the process and the fruits of their long-distance collaboration, namely, a high-quality print edition of this long-awaited book. Otto Wolff (1921-2003), the editor of the classic Anthroposophic Approach to Medicine was a pioneering physician, researcher, prolific writer, and educator who travelled extensively and taught the principles of anthroposophic medicine not only to generations of physicians in Europe but also in the Americas as well as in Africa. 

A course in biochemistry is a prerequisite in the study of biological sciences and medicine which, together with biophysics, anatomy, physiology, and cell biology constitute the core curriculum of pre-clinical studies. Sufficiently awake students embarking on a study of biochemistry will be disheartened when they discover that the conventional approach to the ‘chemistry of life’ is no different from that adopted in the study of inorganic or organic chemistry. Various substances and metabolic pathways are explored in great depth; however, one experiences them abstractly, from a single-dimensional, ‘external’ perspective.

This book offers a refreshingly different perspective! In contrast to the conventional ‘bottom-up’ atomistic method, the author’s point of departure is a holistic, ‘spirit to matter’ approach grounded in the anthroposophical understanding of substance. Far from losing the contact with reality, a reader familiar with the basic tenets of anthroposophy will be rewarded with a feeling that she or he, too, can participate in the ‘inner experience’ of the chemistry of life.

In place of a proverbial listing of chemical elements, amino acids, sugars, and fats, as is the case in conventional texts, the author offers a lucid description of life itself, its cosmic origin and of the nature of substances that serve in its support. In his own words:

“…today’s way of thinking […] assumes the primacy of matter and tries accordingly to explain the properties of substance, from living plants to humans, from the atomic “arrangement.” […] However, the starting point is not matter, but life. It is a fact that life can never arise from dead matter, but comes from light, that is from the preceding and superordinate forces.” (p. 375)

In the introductory chapters the basic principles of spiritual-scientific biochemistry are discussed with the headings ranging from Life, Substance, Matter and Water to Acids and Bases, and Salt Formation. It is a remarkable fact that of the 92 naturally occurring chemical elements in the periodic system, hydrogen, oxygen, carbon, and nitrogen constitute the vast majority of substances which serve as ‘vessels of life.’ They are described ontologically from the perspective of the evolutionary development of the Earth as well as in their current state as mediators of cosmic and earthly forces. Carbon, in particular stands out as the carrier of structure and form of virtually all organic substances. Its importance is underscored by the fact that organic chemistry is generally known as the ‘chemistry of carbon.’ Many aspects of this remarkable element are revealed, above all, that carbon is the bearer of light and of the formative forces of the sun: “Only carbon can unite, absorb and retain this forming and living power of light, which can then be found in its structure.” (p. 56)

Contemporary life sciences have been reduced to cell- and molecular biology and the trend prevails to view every disease process as a kind of genetic mutation and/or a chemical metabolic defect. It is the author’s conviction that by reducing the phenomena of life to genes and chemical substances, one is precluded from the understanding of the forces and qualities “lying above the dead world”. For example, the origin of the word “substance” (from Latin sub-stare) points to what stands below and is only a vessel for that which endows it with its essential characteristics, the imponderables, be it from the dimension of life, soul, or spirit.  The latter may not be chemically detectable but can be perceived by an astute observer schooled in Goethean method and who, like the author, has learned to “read the book of nature.” The methodology used by the author is explained in considerable detail in the final section of the book. It may be helpful to those less familiar with this approach to consult this chapter before delving into the middle part of the book where substances and metabolic processes are elaborated in greater detail.

Sugars, proteins, lipids, and minerals are systematically elaborated in terms of structure, synthesis and degradation in the core chapters of the book. Rather than being mere ‘building blocks’ which can be analyzed down to their chemical and atomic structure, these carriers of life, soul, and spirit become threads in the tapestry of creation. The statement by Francesco Redi (1626–1698) that “life comes only from the living,” ascribed to medieval mysticism by conventional biology, is entirely confirmed in the living pictures masterfully narrated by the author.

For example, in the section on Carbohydrates the writer describes how in the process of photosynthesis, plants assimilate light, warmth and dead CO2, transform them into sugars and starches, and shape them into plant structural elements, leaves, fruits, and seeds. These, in turn, serve as nutrients and sources of “energy,” i.e., of inner warmth and light in animals and humans. In that sense glucose cannot really be called a nutrient but belongs to a category of its own. It is a remarkable fact that from many different types of 6-carbon sugars (hexoses), animal and human life has a specific preference for d-glucose. While it appears paradoxical that the same substance would support two very different physiologies, namely, animal and human, this can be explained on the basis that a closely controlled level of glucose in the human blood fulfills the additional role of being the carrier of the ego organization. The latter is an explicitly human trait which endows us with uprightness, thinking, and memory. Here, according to the author, we are faced with a deep mystery whereby the six Elohim or Spirits of Form, the primal creators of earth and bestowers of the human I, express their activity through light and warmth released in the metabolic “combustion” of glucose.  It is instructive to see how a six-carbon carbon molecule can serve as a carrier of plant, animal, as well as human formative forces.

Analytical methods, such as absorption spectrometry, enables not only identification of the chemical composition of substances but also differentiation between the three-dimensional structure of chemically identical molecules. Oblivious of the existence of the astral body and of the ego organization, conventional biochemistry is forced here to simply accept the facts without further explanation. 

Another example of a “universal substance” which mediates activities of the etheric, astral, and I activities is cholesterol. It is found in practically every cell membrane, pointing to the importance of this substance for the upbuilding or anabolic function of the etheric body, which, without the directive and formative effect of the astral body, would result in the deposition of a merely plant-like tissue. The carrier of these anabolic effects are steroid hormones, such as testosterone, estrogens, progestins, and corticosteroids, which, in fact, are degradation products of the cholesterol metabolism taking place in the adrenal cortex and gonads. Other well-know derivatives of cholesterol are Vitamin D3 (a natural form of vitamin D produced by sunlight in human skin) and bile salts. Vitamin D3 is an essential factor in the mineralization of the skeleton, a function of the I organization which gives us uprightness and support. The bile salts, on the other hand, assist the I in its digestive activity of dietary fats.

In the penultimate chapter “The Periodic Table of Elements” the author shares his profound insights into the nature of the chemical elements, their place in the strata of the earth as reflected in the periodic system, and their relation to the chemistry of life.

“Finally, the peculiarity of the human being as a spiritual being consists in the fact that he can really connect with the earth through life, that is, the life bearing substances, especially carbon. In this respect he gains a possibility which is not given to higher spiritual beings. The mentioned universality of carbon makes possible not only the infinite variety of life, but also the transformation of biological life into spiritual life. An image of this development can be the diamond. By extraordinary compression and the resulting hardness, it has absorbed intensively earth forces, but has led these to purity, clarity and permeability for the light. Therefore, since the ancient times it has been a symbol of the goal of the noblest development of humankind. Therefore, in the late Middle Ages, it was the goal of the Rosicrucian alchemists to reach wisdom through a spiritual knowledge of matter. So, they saw in the carbon or the diamond the philosopher’s stone as a picture of this aspired development.” (p. 378)

There is little doubt that the above paragraph summarizes the author’s own, modern Rosicrucian path to knowledge. With this book Otto Wolf has succeeded in transforming the encompassing field of biochemistry in a way that will inspire all readers longing for a deeper understanding of the living processes in nature. The translators and the publishers are to be congratulated for making available this expertly translated and eminently readable text.

Branko Furst, M.D.