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Several years ago a friend shared this wonderful artistic overview of Ernst Marti’s etheric research. I wish I knew who drew it – if it is copyright please can someone inform me – I can either remove it or at least attribute it to the person who created it. It seems to be a work of love and wisdom and it is a privilege to be able to share it here.
In the hopes of better understanding it I have redrawn the text with my attempts at translating the German (my German is almost non-existent). I have also added where ego and astral forces may have connections. Whilst I understand it is from a book about the four ethers, it would be good for someone such as myself attempting to understand something of Rudolf Steiner’s worldview to see it in relation to the whole.
Ehrenfried Pfeiffer wrote, in an introduction to Rudolf Steiner’s Agriculture lectures, that (some of) the forces (/influences) involved in farming (and life on Earth in general) are physical, etheric, astral and ego. In what ways do they work?
I found hints in Steiner’s first lecture of Cosmic Forces in Man
(GA 209) that ego forces may be associated with zodiac constellations of the fixed stars in some way, and astral forces with the planets. Further research is required!
Relating Nick Thomas’ insight that gravity may possibly be a consequence of the stresses on solid objects moving simultaneously in both linked space and counterspace, may require a rethinking of Ernst Marti’s description of four physical forces (are they directly from Steiner or a result of his own researches). Nick Thomas has hinted that other previous conceptions may well require rethinking – without giving any details – he left that task for others to do. Hopefully someone has already completed such a review. If not, it is a task I intend to at least attempt – but not today!
Rethinking the Nature of Substance 
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