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Foundation For A New Theory of Colour

Chapter VIII, Etheric Formative Forces in Cosmos, Earth and Man by Guenther Wachsmuth IT would not be possible to speak here on the basis of reality concerning the true nature of phenomena of colour had not Goethe in his theory of colour given the foundation for a conception of “light,” “darkness,” and “colour” which can be set over against the terrible caricature that has been systematically developed from the mechanizing hypothesis of Newton in the course of the present materialistic age. In his remarkable work … Continue reading

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The Etheric Formative Forces

from The Etheric Formative Forces in Cosmos, Earth & Man by Guenther Wachsmuth, 1932 There are altogether seven etheric primal forces, formative forces, active in the cosmos; of these, however, only four reveal themselves in the space-and-time processes of our present phenomenal world. In what follows, therefore, we shall deal only with these four etheric formative forces. Rudolf Steiner’s Anthroposophical science designates these four kinds of ether as:— Warmth Ether, Light Ether, Chemical Ether (or Sound Ether), and Life Ether. The four kinds of ether … Continue reading

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