The Etheric Formative
Forces in Cosmos, Earth and Man
By Dr. Guenther
Wachsmuth
Below is both the Introduction
and Forward from Dr. Wachsmuth’s book. It was emailed to my Facebook account by
someone I consider a modern day genius – Eric Dollard. This man is resurrecting
Tesla. They figuratively buried Tesla alive almost a century ago. When you read the forward, written 90 years ago, you could conclude it was written today. Please go to Eric Dollard's site to download this rare book and learn something about him as well.
Professor Dollard said in one of his video lectures that the sun is only visible from Earth because of the atmospheric impact on our vision. In space the sun is invisible - it is an multi-dimensional enigma.
Here is Dollard’s
Facebook forward:
The First Book
You Must Read to Understand the Aether and Natural Science
This long lost treasure has been out of print for over 80 years. I found a copy
in the Yale Library and had it sent to New York where I spent weeks reading and
rereading it.
This book will answer questions that modern Science still cannot and for those
who are paying attention send you to the deepest possible level of the rabbit
hole. Even if you don't want to go there this volume will change the way you
see science.
Dr. Wachsmuth’s
book:
The astronomer Johann Kepler, in his
work " Harmonices
MimcU," " The Harmonies of
the Spheres " :
" Even though men may scorn me
for my frank confession—
Yes! I have stolen
the sacred vessels of the Egyptians that I
might make of them a
sanctuary for my God, far, far from the
confines of Egypt.
" If ye forgive me, I
shall be happy ; if ye are angry, then
I must bear it. Well, here I cast the
die and write a book—
whether for the present or for the
future is of no consequence
to me. What though it wait a hundred
years for its reader—
God has awaited his decipherer for
thousands of years."
Foreword to the First
German Edition
ABOOK concerned with problems of
natural science will, in our
day more than ever before, grow into a
treatise upon the most
profound questions of philosophy, if
it is to deal adequately with
its problem. For in this materialistic
age the results of scientific
research, not only in their power to
illuminate but also in their power
to darken, have penetrated so deeply
into the human mind, into its
habits of thought, that corresponding
effects show themselves even in
the outward and visible life of our
age—although the true cause of these
conditions is not any longer present
to the consciousness of most of
those who are themselves involved in
the sort of life thus manifested.
But the new generation now growing up
sets itself, with the energy of
those who are battling for their
lives, against being swept into this
current of our age, a current whose
chaotic, ruinous nature is to be
explained wholly as a result of the
scientific thought of the past century,
but especially of the last decades.
Who is not deeply impressed to-day
with the feeling that those
ideas taken over from the scientific
conceptions of the past century,
and.then popularized and introduced
into the thought and activities of
every-day life—conceptions cf "
the struggle for existence," of " natural
selection," of the pitiless
" mechanism of Nature," of the " survival of
the fittest " and the
annihilation of all that fails to meet the requirements
of this supposedly utilitarian
Nature—who does not feel that all these
conceptions, ostensibly learned from
Nature herself but really obtruded
upon her out of one-sided and limited
human thought, have brought a
terrible devastation into the minds of
men, and that this spiritual confusion
has been the impelling factor in
bringing about the European
catastrophe ? This is not a question
of guilt or innocence. It is a
question as to the manner in which a
spiritual stream in human evolution
which took its rise in the fifteenth
century, and reached its culmination
at the turning point between the
nineteenth and the twentieth, is drawing
to its end. This spiritual stream,
which—when viewed in its brighter
aspect—has brought to us the great
scientific revelations, yet also has
given to the men of our time a phantom
picture of the world wherein
this cosmic system, in which we must
live, appears as a great corpse.
For the scientific research of these
500 years—however great the service
it has conferred upon human nature in
the direction of the understanding
and domination of dead " matter
"—has, on the other hand, failed to
lift ever so little that veil which
conceals true knowledge and the mastery
of that which is alive. Indeed, a
future age, viewing more impartially
this trend of human inquiry, will be
able to show that the development
of natural science in the direction of
an understanding of what is dead
has fastened a leaden weight upon
man's feet to hinder him from moving
toward a knowledge of what is living—a
weight from which he will be
able to free himself only by an almost
superhuman effort.
Wherever one engages in conversation
to-day in any part of the
world, especially with young men, one
becomes aware of that great
process of fermentation through which
the coming generation will free
itself of the horrible form to which
our conception of the world, and thus
also our life, has been reduced by a
materialistic science, directed almost
wholly towards merely quantitative
results. It is for men of this sort,
who wish to cast from their feet the
leaden weight, that this book has
been written, in the hope that it may
give to them the elements out
of which to build up a new and
different conception of the world, a
conception in which the investigation
of the living, the organic, as the
true origin and starting point for
knowledge—with the inorganic and
lifeless constituting the less
essential part of the world-conception
within this framework of the
living—will be the object of our study.
Of the reader of this book I would beg
that, before he begins, he
will spend five minutes in bringing
before his minds eye, in thoughtful
reflection, the present world situation,
unmitigated, in all its future
perspective. He will then enter upon
his co-operation in the problems
to be attacked with his mind equipped
otherwise than one who is
interested merely in adding to his
treasury of formulEe one formula more,
or one who works in the merely
scientific fashion to protect from disturbance a
pet theory which has become
necessary to his comfort. The
method of research applied in this
book and the results of this method
must be taken as a whole, as a unity.
Whoever extracts any detail
whatever from the book in order to
play that game of concepts so beloved
by the abstract intellectualism of our
age, instead of fixing his view
upon the whole, will simply be
attempting to run his head against a
wall that does not exist.
We do not propose merely to pass over
in a schematic fashion from
the results of the investigations of
the lifeless to investigation of the
organic, the phenomena of life, the
living; on the contrary, we propose
to unite a new sort of view of the
world with a new inner mood of spirit,
which ought to penetrate us and remain
with us from the beginning in
the scientific investigation of both
the living and the lifeless. Here
there is no great
gulf in man separating religion and science, such as has
been artificially
created by the merely quantitative-mechanical tendency in
science. Whoever reads this
book with an open and unprejudiced mind
will find, nevertheless, that the vast
results of the previous investigations
in the same field are used as its
foundation and serve as its tools. But
this is to be the chief distinction of
what we shall strive to accomplish :
that, although the coming generation
dare not, cannot, and will not
set aside the results of the
quantitative idea of the world and begin anew
to work without these, but will weave
the already attained results of
quantitative research into their new
conception of the world, where
these are very valuable supports for
knowledge, yet they will, on the
contrary, reject these, especially in
their own attitude of mind, wherever
their effect is to degrade our cosmos
into a corpse.
Everything contained in the following
pages owes its origin to the
fact that the author is an adherent of
Spiritual Science as given its
determinative direction by Anthroposophy.
Whatever is false or
imperfect in the book is the fault of
the author and not of the theory.
I am well aware that the volume is
only the first feeble endeavour to
master the problems attacked. Many
slips, many failures in clarity,
have doubtless crept into this attempt
to survey by a new method such
varied and complex fields of human
knowledge. Yet a conviction as
to the lightness of this new way of
viewing the problems and of the
urgent necessity for such a view has
given me the courage to risk the
attempt. Whoever has blazed a trail in
a hitherto unknown region
will know that, in such a journey of
exploration, no one can at first
take the most direct or the easiest
path to his goal. Yet only a man
of small nature will come to grief
because of the roughness of the path,
right in itself; a man of spirit will
take pleasure in the new trail, and
will himself lend a hand in order that
the new goal may be reached.
As a small portion of that
comprehensive contribution which
Anthroposophy will make toward the
evolution of humanity, this book
is dedicated, from the author's
profound sense of an inner necessity,
and in spite of his consciousness of
its imperfections, to him who has
called Anthroposophy into being—Dr.
Rudolf Steiner.
Heartfelt thanks are due also to many
others, all of whom I would
gladly mention by name, but especially
to Mr. Scott Pyle, of New York,
to Count Otto von
l>rchenfeld-K6fering, to Frau Harriet von Vacano—
who has translated into German for us
the great christian philosopher
Vladimir Solovjeff—and to my brother,
Wolfgang Wachsmuth, as
well as Dr. Ita Wegman, all of whom
have given both counsel and
co-operation. For scientific and
experimental collaboration, there is
a special debt to Herr Ehrenfried
Pfeiffer. To the many others who
have aided may the most earnest thanks
live in my thought.
GuENTHER WACHSMUTH.
The Goetheanum,
Dornach, near Basel, Switzerland.
Thank you,
Joseph Pede.