12 DAYS OF COMMUNITY SERVICE An Esoteric Plant Classification I suppose that I should have regarded by sentence as quite clement really, especially in these days of heightened nature consciousness. I could have gotten away with the crime in the 20th Century without comment, except by a few rabid conservationists of course. All I said […]
BLOCK: G8 Plant Classification
Sacred Flora: Seven Geographic Plant Mansions
I HAD A GOOD TEACHER Seven Geographic Plant Mansions In my early years in anthroposophy, I had the best Botany teacher for which one could ever wish. As a young high school teacher in a Steiner school, teaching the natural sciences among other things, I had constant recourse to a tall, wiry, bronzed, Anzac-type Aussie […]
Sacred Flora: Spectrum Signatures in the Plant World
ANNUNCIATION TO ASCENSION Spectrum Signatures in the Plant World For once, Amateur Botanist had prepared his evening talk well, on the display side at least. He had spent the afternoon wandering around his bountiful sub-tropical garden collecting leaves, flowers, fruits, and seeds of kaleidoscopic variety to illustrate is talk, Color in the Plant World. The […]
Sacred Flora: Seven Planetary Influences on Plants
THE WORLD GARDEN Seven Planet Influences on Plant Life “Good evening listeners, on tonight’s program of The World Garden, we have a direct link with the seven planets of the Ptolemaen System. Yes, from the closest to the furthest we’ll speak to Moon; Occults Mercury and Venus; Sun (even Old Sol; though really a star […]
Sacred Flora: Four Floral Elements
FIRE, AIR, WATER, EARTH Fungi, Algae, Mosses, Ferns Hello Readers, I have been asked to give an account of myself… oh, my name is Cryptogamae, meaning “hidden marriage”. I am the illimitable spore bearers of the wonderful botanical world. Actually, I represent my whole family, which includes four lovely children, or Divisions as botanists call […]
Sacred Flora: Medicine Plants: The Seven Sacred Spices
THE MEDICINE PLANTS Seven Sacred Spices Rudolf Steiner once said that a lock of spiritual ideas contributed to gland degeneracy. So, it seems axiomatic that the slide into the superficial/superstitious religious cultism of Medieval Europe, from the more spirit-based humanism of earlier times, led to an epidemic of gland enfeeblement. This occurred from about the […]