{"id":2099,"date":"2024-02-03T20:02:32","date_gmt":"2024-02-03T20:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.laspa.slg.br\/?page_id=2099"},"modified":"2024-02-03T20:02:32","modified_gmt":"2024-02-03T20:02:32","slug":"silicio-em-steiner-2007","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.laspa.slg.br\/en\/projetos\/a-agencia-social-dos-elementos-quimicos\/levantamentos-da-presenca-de-elementos-quimicos-em-livros\/silicio-em-steiner-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"Sil\u00edcio em Steiner (2007)"},"content":{"rendered":"

From all this you can see what an immense significance silicon<\/strong> must have. Well-nigh half of what we meet on the Earth consists of silica. But the peculiar thing is how very little notice is taken of it. It is practically excluded to-day even from those domains of life where it could work most beneficially. (Steiner 2007:12)<\/p>\n

In the Medicine that proceeds from Anthroposophical Science, silicious substances are an essential constituent of numerous medicaments. A large class of illnesses are treated with silicic acid taken internally, or outwardly as baths. In effect, practically everything that shows itself in abnormal conditions of the senses is influenced in a peculiar way by silicon<\/strong>. (I do not say what lies in the senses themselves, but that which shows itself <\/em>in the senses, including the inner senses \u2014 calling forth pains here or there in the organs of the body). (Steiner 2007:12)<\/p>\n

Not only so; throughout the \u201chousehold of Nature,\u201d as we have grown accustomed to call it, silicon<\/strong> plays the greatest imaginable part, for it not only exists where we discover it in quartz or other rocks, but in an extremely fine state of distribution it is present in the atmosphere. Indeed, it is everywhere. Half of the Earth that is at our disposal is of silica. (Steiner 2007:12)<\/p>\n

Now what does this silicon<\/strong> do? In a hypothetical form, let us ask ourselves this question. Let us assume that we only had half as much silicon<\/strong> in our earthly environment. In that case our plants would all have more or less pyramidal forms. The flowers would all be stunted. Practically all plants would have the form of the cactus, which strikes us as abnormal. The cereals would look very queer indeed. Their stems would grow thick, even fleshy, as you went downward; the ears would be quite stunted \u2014 they would have no full ears at all. (Steiner 2007:12)<\/p>\n

But that is not all. All that is thus connected, by way of silicon<\/strong>, with the root-nature, must also be able to be led upward through the plant. It must flow upward. There must be constant interaction between what is drawn in from the Cosmos by the silicon<\/strong>, and what takes place \u2014 forgive me! \u2014in the \u201cbelly\u201d up above; for by the latter process the \u201chead\u201d beneath must be supplied with what it needs. The \u201chead\u201d is supplied out of the Cosmos, but it must also be in mutual interaction with what is going on in the \u201cbelly,\u201d above the Earth’s surface. In a word, that which pours down from the Cosmos and is caught up beneath the surface must be able to pour upward again. And for this purpose is the clayey substance in the soil. Everything in the nature of clay<\/em> is in reality a means of transport, for the influences of cosmic entities within the soil, to carry them upward again from below. (Steiner 2007:17)<\/p>\n

If men believe that they can only see the silica where it has hard mineral outline, they are mistaken. In homeopathic proportions, the silicious principle is everywhere around us;.moreover it rests in itself \u2014 it makes no claims. Limestone claims everything; the silicon<\/strong> principle claims nothing for itself. It is like our own sense organs. They too do not perceive themselves, but that which is outside them. The silica<\/em>-nature is the universal sense within the earthly realm, the limestone<\/em>-nature is the universal craving; and the clay mediates between the two. Clay stands rather nearer to the silicious nature, but it still mediates towards the limestone. (Steiner 2007:27)<\/p>\n

STEINER, Rudolf. 2007. The Agriculture Course<\/em>. (Trans.: George Adams) Shrewsbury: Wilding & Son Ltd.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From all this you can see what an immense significance silicon must have. Well-nigh half of what we meet on the Earth consists of silica. But the peculiar thing is how very little notice is taken of it. It is practically excluded to-day even from those domains of life where it could work most beneficially. (Steiner 2007:12) In the Medicine […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":1212,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2099","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laspa.slg.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laspa.slg.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laspa.slg.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laspa.slg.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laspa.slg.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.laspa.slg.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2100,"href":"https:\/\/www.laspa.slg.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2099\/revisions\/2100"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laspa.slg.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laspa.slg.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}