The tattvas of Kashmir Shaivism, as well as Sankhya and Vedanta, enumerate 5 elements - For Anthroposophy they are earth, water, fire, air, space. To include space, the starting point has to be outside it - man as earthly being. The exclusion of space can be seen as related to its experience and emphasis on 'beings'
The tattvas of Kashmir Shaivism, as well as Sankhya and Vedanta, enumerate 5 elements - For Anthroposophy they are earth, water, fire, air, space. To include space, the starting point has to be outside it - man as earthly being. The exclusion of space can be seen as related to its experience and emphasis on 'beings'
The tattvas of Kashmir Shaivism, as well as Sankhya and Vedanta, enumerate 5 elements - For Anthroposophy they are earth, water, fire, air, space. To include space, the starting point has to be outside it - man as earthly being. The exclusion of space can be seen as related to its experience and emphasis on 'beings'
The tattvas of Kashmir Shaivism, as well as Sankhya and Vedanta, enumerate 5
elements - Anthroposophy enumerates 4. The great elements, the Mahabutas
of Kashmir Shaivism, are earth, water, fire, air, space. For Anthroposophy they are earth, water, air, fire. The West starting with Aristotle starts from the ground up man as earthly being. To include space, the starting point has to be outside it. That means that the issue goes back to the foundational principles in each. The positing of space as the 5th element not only originates in the East, but goes back thousands of years to Sankhya. Man now lives within space, lost in space. The East saw the Cosmic man, the west the earthly man. The issue goes back to the foundational principles in each. The exclusion of space in Anthroposophy can be seen as related to its experience and emphasis on beings. This basic philosophic orientation goes right into the 'substance' of what and how one sees. The 'rounding', of the moon, for example, closed off within itself is a visual 'metaphor' for 'being', though not being as such. It shows man as a being within space, an object in space along with others. Consciousness encapsulated becomes a being. It might easily be said and is often implied in Anthroposophy that the 'being principle' results because we have grown in knowledge and the 'consciousness principle' belonged to an older, less 'mature' human being. However modern man has not arrived at the 'being principle' because he has attained maturity, rather he has attained 'maturity' because of the 'being principle' which 'rounded out' the planets and brought man down to earth. When we speak of 'being principle' vs 'consciousness principle', it can be likened as metaphor to the experience of major and minor in music. Experience of the major involves an opening out, an expansion. In the experience of the minor there is a kind of diminishment, the above is closed off. Dissonance rounds out the triad when 'major' and 'minor' clash. Thus, the dissonance when some expressions of Anthroposophy are heard to some-one imbued with Kashmir Shaivism and vice- versa. Speaking in terms of music, 'major' belongs to the East and 'minor' to the West. It wasnt irrelevant that the 'stream of evolution', as Rudolf Steiner relates it, moved to the West. In doing so it brings man to the 'minor' experience which then gives rise to the 'being principle' in philosophy imbuing all thought and activity. The following question arises. Can we speak of 'consciousness' without 'beings', or, are the 'transcendent' and the 'immanent' (beings) BOTH eternal? When does the time arrive to overcome the 'one-sidedness' of each, the onesidedness of East and the onesidedness of West? The older focus of the east was one-sided - thus the very common belief that liberation meant a withdrawal from the world. In this sense, the 'being' focus of Anthroposophy is also one-sided, it is a science of beings. Kashmir Shaivism sees liberation differently than Advaita Vedanta. Where is there to go? asks Abhinavagupta, there is only one reality. If the immanent aspect of the universe (beings) is developed further, in greater detail, than in Kashmir Shaivism, and if Anthroposophy sees how beings are encapsulated consciousness, a consciousness which in itself is one, a 'new conceptualization', can be found with expressions dissonant to neither.
Astrosophy or Star (Astro) Wisdom (Sophia), Is the Spiritual Scientific Understanding of Our New and Enhanced Relationship to the World of the Stars. Rudolf Steiner Spoke of the Visible Stars, As the Physical Manifestation of a Complex