Bruce Michael
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How are you all?
Has anyone heard of Lorenz Oken? He had changed his name from Ockenfuss.
Born Aug 1st 1779, Died 1851 In 1807 he was Professor extraoridinarius of medical sciences at Jena.
Goethe attended his lectures, being on the privy council and rector of the university.
He theorised that the head was a repetition of the trunk- a kind of second trunk with limbs and other appendages. I have seen have proofs for this using projective geometry and it is something Dr.Steiner talked about as a principle of reincarnation- the head once being the trunk.
The homology of the head and trunk was claimed by Goethe as his own theory in his Morphologie (1820).
It was Oken who wrought out the theory that the skull is a modified vertebrae- again claimed by Goethe. So let's give credit where it's due.
Oken was truly an extraordinary man, way ahead of his time and time will vindicate his theories.
It has been a bit of a running joke here lately that if you want to shock someone - like the local vicar - tell them about the doctrine that the animals descended from man and not the other way around. The road to desire as it appeared in the pure man Adam Kadmon, is made up of animal forms.
-Rudolf Steiner (all quotes from the Foundations of Esotericism)
He also tells us the cunning of man was cast into the fox.
The Elder Brothers have a teaching about the giraffe and have also spoken about the dog in this regard.
According to Dr. Steiner, Oken knew all about these things. At an earlier stage Man separated himself off from the cold-blooded animals:
Everyone stick their tongue out and experience the cuttlefish in it!
-From the Elder Brothers
-Br.Bruce
Has anyone heard of Lorenz Oken? He had changed his name from Ockenfuss.
Born Aug 1st 1779, Died 1851 In 1807 he was Professor extraoridinarius of medical sciences at Jena.
Goethe attended his lectures, being on the privy council and rector of the university.
He theorised that the head was a repetition of the trunk- a kind of second trunk with limbs and other appendages. I have seen have proofs for this using projective geometry and it is something Dr.Steiner talked about as a principle of reincarnation- the head once being the trunk.
The homology of the head and trunk was claimed by Goethe as his own theory in his Morphologie (1820).
It was Oken who wrought out the theory that the skull is a modified vertebrae- again claimed by Goethe. So let's give credit where it's due.
Oken was truly an extraordinary man, way ahead of his time and time will vindicate his theories.
It has been a bit of a running joke here lately that if you want to shock someone - like the local vicar - tell them about the doctrine that the animals descended from man and not the other way around. The road to desire as it appeared in the pure man Adam Kadmon, is made up of animal forms.
-Rudolf Steiner (all quotes from the Foundations of Esotericism)
He also tells us the cunning of man was cast into the fox.
The Elder Brothers have a teaching about the giraffe and have also spoken about the dog in this regard.
According to Dr. Steiner, Oken knew all about these things. At an earlier stage Man separated himself off from the cold-blooded animals:
Everyone stick their tongue out and experience the cuttlefish in it!
-From the Elder Brothers
-Br.Bruce