The Lost Vision of Life

The Lost Vision of Life

The vision of life that we want to share with you today is the one that has crossed the culture of all peoples for thousands of years and that in recent centuries has wanted to be labeled with the brand of witchcraft, of lack of scientific evidence.
But the only great scientific or philosophical evidence that we want to consider is that we have gone from a veneration and respect for nature to a slow destruction and exploitation of the divine masterpiece of ecosystems.
The great scientists of modern physics have tried to demonstrate that all the research of their ancestors had no evidence, even starting from the concept of ether, but at the end of their career they entered into a crisis faced with the absolute lack of scientific evidence of: ” creator god” whose perception is possible only through emotion.”
Yet the reading of natural phenomena, since the dawn of time, has always been done through meditation and emotions. We were able to understand an ancient and wonderful reading of life thanks to the works of R. Steiner and the few documents available, but we used that part of us that escapes the control of the brain and finds its solutions in reading images cosmic: the imaginative spirit.
We must also point out that the synthetic descriptions that follow concern a vision of life, well known to Sicilian peasants up until about 50 years ago, which through centuries of powerful attempts to replace paganism with Catholicism, was not without difficulty erased from their mind. it was the 80’s.
For thousands of years men were certain of the collaboration of the spirit in the formation of life.
Through simplicity, the peasants grasped this vision in everyday life, while the scientific vision attributed the birth of life to the work of the 4 elements, seeing them as divine presences, elements enlivened by the spirit.
An example is that of Empedocles (VI century BC) who in his writings speaks of the four elements (water, earth, fire and air) as divine presences calling them Nesti, Hera, Ades and Zeus.
Scientists and farmers were able to perceive and see these spirits and they were certain that ONLY BY RESPECTING THEM YOU COULD obtain benefits on the care of MEN AND ANIMALS and on the agricultural productions NECESSARY FOR THEIR NUTRITION.
The peasants transmitted their knowledge through stories, imprinting the great secrets in the minds of THEIR little ones that allowed them to get to know the territory. The stories of the Nymphs, for example, gave those emotions necessary to find water.
Scientists, on the other hand, went further, trying to understand all the work of the Spirit on matter. In the evolution of the natural sciences they intuited that life on earth has mechanisms that arise from the cosmos and are reflected on matter.
Nature therefore forms works of art from cosmic images and to investigate it it is necessary to observe it through emotions. This observation is similar to what would be activated in an expert eye in front of a painting by Raphael (or other artist): perceiving his life, recognizing an original from a copy or a photo, and this is not possible if you do not filter the observation through emotions.
This was the vision of the scientists, philosophers of the past, at the time of the birth of alchemy, a birth which is attributed to the legendary Hermes Trismegistus.
Alchemy developed in Sicily with Empedocles and found its development in Greece in Aristotle and Plato, with Geber in the Arab world and in Spain, Al-Razí in Baghdad, Ko Hung in China, Al-Biruni in India, Paracelsus in Switzerland and the Spaniard Arnaldo da Villanova in Sicily where the latter educated Federico Terzo (Argimusco, Montalbano Elicona around 1300).
Everything was based on the four elements and their ability to aggregate and disaggregate through 3 processes called Sal, Sulfur and Mercury; extracting life and concentrating matter with Sal (calcination) and soul and spirit through two distillation processes (sulfur and mercury).
All matter on earth is subject to physical forces, but life arises from the entry into play of forces, polar with respect to the physical ones: the so-called etheric forces.
we therefore have:
The etheric force of heat (fire) is the force to generate, to arise. The physical Polar Force is to burn, to extinguish, to dissipate
The etheric force of light (air) is the force of growth, extension, radiation. Polar physical force is the force of gathering, concentration, darkness.
The etheric force of sound (water) is the force of lightness, movement, order, harmony. The polar physical force is gravity, inertia, sedimentation.
The etheric life force (earth) is the force of form. Polar physical force is the force of splitting, of death.
But what directs the etheric forces in the right direction, as already mentioned the “polar” one to the physical forces?
Astral forces.
The astral forces in the vegetable world remain in the cosmos and coordinate the etheric forces of the plants constantly and during the seasons which is the task of the Sun. The Sun receives the frequencies of life in a rhythmic way (seasons) from the planetary system which in turn receives them from universe especially from star systems of the zodiac (water, earth, fire and air signs).
Therefore the plants receive the astral forces from the cosmos and allow the vivification of the minerals, organizing the polarization of the etheric forces with respect to the physical ones. If they did not operate, the minerals would remain “dead”, remaining all subject to physical forces alone.
Animals, on the other hand, do not have this formidable ability to draw the astral forces directly from the cosmos in a continuous way, but assuming the individuality, absent in plants, they have organs suitable for concentrating, assuming and elaborating astral forces coming from the cosmos, but they must resort to nutrition to take plants directly or through herbivores.

To explain how the astral forces act on the earth, we have to resort to the splendid vision of the Ptolemaic solar system: the sun dominating all the planets and the earth interposed between 6 planets. Those closest to the sun are called sub-solar (moon, Venus and Mercury) and those furthest away are called supra-solar (Saturn, Jupiter and Mars).
The sub-solar planets through the sun influence aetheric forces in plants to enable:
• Moon – playback,
• Venus – formation of secondary metabolites (in animals: lymphatic system, etc.),
• Mercury – form and penetration (in animals: blood, nervous system, etc.)
Their related elements are water and earth (roots and leaves).
The supra-solar planets, through the sun, influence etheric forces in plants which affect so-called structural functions.
• Saturn the seeds, the support structure, the archetypal image (thanks to Saturn the rose is a rose, a pear tree is a pear tree);
• Jupiter perfection and lightness;
• Mars the rhythms, the formation of proteins, the absorption of substances.
Their related elements are light and heat (flowers and fruits)
The suprasolar force that resides in the light is evident in the colors: Saturn blue and purple, Jupiter white and yellow, Mars in red.
Planetary actions are legible through shape and color and their actions occur in polarity between suprasolar and subsolar. For example the round shape is from Jupiter, the irregular shape is from Mercury.
Moon is in the speed of reproduction, Saturn in the DNA, Mars in the function and Venus in the order of the substances produced.
But how do the four elements fit perfectly into plants? Who are the creators of this graft between astral and etheric?
The artwork of life is completed by beings called elementals.
They are the elemental beings, hands of the astral forces, seen up to the 80s by our Sicilian peasants and present in the pre-Catholic cultures of scientists and teachers, who materially operate the vivification of the four elements:
Ondine – water;
Sylphs or fairies – light and air;
Salamanders – heat;
Gnomes – land or life.
Does this vision of nature, this explanation of life seem more like a fairy tale than a science?
Probably because the IO, the only thing that distinguishes men from animals, of all of us is dormant, asleep by the filters of well-being, globalization, collectivization.
But how will we and how will our children and our children’s children after us know this story that was engraved in all the cultures that accompanied the healthy growth of human beings, without farmers or teachers? Where have emotions gone in current science? How can one think of the explanation of life without them?

Arturo Genduso
Natalia La Scala