Weather

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Aspects

• clouds
• rain
• sunlight
• fog and mist
• storms
  • effects of thunder and lightning
  • hurricanes and tornadoes
• droughts
  • examples: Europe: 1770-1840 (Dalton minimum); Asia 1876-1879 (Great Famine in India and China); China 1928-1930
• floods and tsunamis
• aurora that light up the skies of the poles,
• climate change
  • see also:
    • Earth#Note 1 - Effects of nature - global warming vs human moral behaviour
    • Earthquakes and emergence continent sixth epoch#Note 1 - Climatological changes and the end of the fifh epoch
• science to predict the weather

various

• all the phenomena pertaining to meteorology (cloud formations, wind, blizzards, storms, ..) represent the boundary between the cosmic rhythms and the human breathing rhythm on Earth (1922-11-26-GA219)
• invisible beings work in air and water, the beings of the Third Hierarchy (see Schema FMC00.473) but also the Elementals of nature

Illustrations

Schema FMC00.473 illustrates how the third hierarchy of spiritual beings has its lower bodily elements in the four elements and can be found in nature (compare with Schema FMC00.142C), but also make up and live in Man's lower bodily members. For the relation of the higher spiritual members in Man see also Schema FMC00.472 on Three meetings.

See also 1918-09-07-GA184:

Man in ancient times, although he had a consciousness that these beings were there and that his soul was bound up with them, could not see directly but only dimly into the external, sensible nature. ... the Man of old believed that the beings of the third hierarchy were bound up with the external nature which he perceived with his senses. At that time he confused the divine beings of the third hierarchy with the phenomena of nature, and expressed this in his interpretation of natural phenomena.

FMC00.247 compares the faculties of walking, speaking, thinking in incarnate life, with the experiences of Man between death and a new birth

Lecture coverage and references

1910-12-31-GA126

see long extract on: Atlantean epoch#1910-12-31-GA126

discusses the natural rhythm related to the Spirits of Form, and links it to the ice ages, see more on Macroscopic rhythms

1922-11-26-GA219

On the Earth, the Universe has, so to speak, the rhythm proper to mankind; in yonder world it has the rhythm in which we ourselves participate between death and rebirth. What, then, lies between the two? The rhythm proper to mankind gives us the faculty between birth and death to speak human words, to master human language. Cosmic rhythm enables us between death and a new birth to let the Cosmic Word resound within us. The Earth endows us with the gift of speech. The Universe, the spiritual Universe, gives us the Logos. You will realize that conditions are utterly different in the sphere where cosmic rhythm gives us the Logos, from conditions here on the Earth, where we articulate the human word in the air.

What, then, constitutes the boundary between the one realm and the other? Looking out into the physical world we have no perception of the cosmic rhythm. There is inner law and order in each realm, so what is it that lies between them?

Between them—if I may put it so—is the boundary at which the cosmic rhythm breaks in that it is coming too near the Earth; between them is that which, in certain circumstances, may also bring the human breathing-rhythm into disorder. Between them, in effect, are all the phenomena pertaining to meteorology.

If on the Earth there were no blizzards, storms, wind, cloud formations, if the air did not contain, in addition to oxygen and nitrogen for our breathing, these meteorological phenomena which are always there, however clear the air may appear to be—then we should look out into the universe and be aware of a different rhythm—actually the counterpart of our breathing rhythm, only transformed into infinite grandeur. Between the two spheres of the World-Order lie the chaotic phenomena of wind and weather, separating the cosmic rhythm and the human breathing rhythm from each other.

Man on the Earth is subject to gravity. He co-ordinates his gait, every movement of his hands with this force of gravity. Out in the Universe the forces are altogether different. Orientation there is in all directions; the lines of force run from Being to Being of the Hierarchies.

What is between the two? As meteorological phenomena are between heavenly rhythm and human rhythm on Earth, what is between the cosmic force that is the opposite of gravity and earthly gravity?

Now just as meteorological phenomena lie between the two rhythms, so between the force of gravity and the opposite heavenly force of orientation there lie the volcanic forces, the forces which manifest in earthquakes. These are irregular forces.

1924-09-19-GA346

Once one has grasped that what is a meadow today was not a meadow in, say, the 13th century, but that there was another meadow there which has perished in the meantime, one gets an idea of the mission of snow: It is the bearer of a continual dying process.

One gets more snow every year, and ice is continually renewed from above, as nature dies into this whole, elementary shaping process that is present in the dynamics of snow and ice formation.

This is the way things are in our time. However, this state of affairs will eventually change. We will say more about this shortly.

Related pages

• Lightning
• Earth
• Rhythm of a day
• Macroscopic rhythms
• Scientific research into the etheric formative forces

References and further reading

• Friedrich Doldinger editor: 'Weisheit der Wolken : Gedanken und Gedichte vom Erleben des Wolkenreiches' (1930)
• Gerhard Schmidt: 'Wolken und Wetter'
• Ernst Lehrs, Luke Howard: 'The language of the clouds' (Lehrs), 'Essay on the modification of clouds' (Howard) (1987)
• Dennis Klocek
  • 'Weather' (1987)
  • 'Weather and cosmos' (1990)
  • Climate: Soul of the Earth (2011)
• Luigi Morelli: 'The Living Climate: Computer Modelling or Planetary Harmonics? – Challenging Prevailing Climate Change Narratives' (2024)

Various

• C. Donald Ahrens, Robert Henson: 'Essentials of Meteorology: An Invitation to the Atmosphere' (1993)

Photography books on weather

• Storm Dunlop: 'Weather: Spectacular Images of the World's Extraordinary Climate' (2006)
• The Royal Meteorological Society: 'Weather: A Force of Nature' (2022)