School of the Elemental Beings
- Publisher
SteinerBooks - Published
2nd October 2017 - ISBN 9781621481454
- Pages 128 pp.
- Size 5.5" x 8.5"
- Images 7 Color Reproductions
Is the world around us alive or is it dead?
Chorus of the Elemental BeingsIn your hands rests
The life of the earth.
In your souls
Give it the right to live
As is fitting for it.
Then it cannot fall
Which falls so easily,
For it is old,
But young
It remains through you.
If the widely held belief were true—that matter is the basis of all we know as reality—then life would make no sense. The world would essentially be dead—an absurd notion! What we know as life would be an unexplainable phenomenon, an astounding but accidental miracle. Does this sound familiar? In the undeniable presence of life, this belief can never truly make sense. It demands faith. Thus materialism is superstition. If we dare to entertain the notion—albeit akin to a modern heresy—that life (being), not matter, is the foundation of what we know as reality, then both matter and life make perfect sense.
Karsten Massei—who is exceptionally sensitive to the invisible beings of life that surround us always and everywhere—offers a gentle but powerful call, from those beings themselves, to discard superstition and begin to awake to the reality of life.
As beings of the living Earth, we have certain responsibilities, too long neglected. The Earth is not an abstraction—a dead “rock” hurtling through space—but a living being. The elemental beings, who are intimately, intrinsically connected to the living Earth and to the living human race, suffer from our indifference, egoism, and ignorance of life, but they have much to teach us and patiently await our attention.
“Know your environment!” It can begin with this book.
C O N T E N T S:
Translator’s Note
Introduction
I. The World of the Elemental Beings
What Are Elemental Beings?
The Ordering of Elemental Beings
Elemental Beings of Higher and Lower Rank
The Birth of Elemental Beings
Life Cycles of the Beings of the Elemental World
A Path to Elemental Beings
School of Life
New Abilities of Perception
II. Nature Spirits
The Tree Spirits
Verse of Blessing from a Tree Spirit to Human Beings
Tree Fairies
The Fairy of the Rose and the Fairy of the Oak
The Spirit of the Forest
Guardian of the Rocks
III. Gates to the Elemental Beings
How Can One Meet Elemental Beings?
Speaking with Elemental Beings
The Gate of Attentiveness
Reading the Signs of Life
Elemental Beings Look Up to Human Beings
School of the Elemental Beings
IV. Elemental Beings and Human Beings
House Spirits
Wandering Elemental Beings
The King of the Landscape
V. Caring for the Earth
Care for the Earth
The Body of the Earth
Living Thinking
Steps toward Healing
VI. Verses of Blessing
Blessing by a King of the Landscape for Human Beings
Blessing for the Elemental Beings
Chorus of the Elemental Beings
About Karsten Massei
About the illustrations by Franziska van der Geest
Karsten Massei