Uploaded July 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Rudolf Steiner tells us:
“The function of the heart is not to pump blood through the body. It is a sensory organ. Through the heart’s activity the head can perceive the entire blood circulation. The pulsebeat is a barometer for health or illness. But the pulsebeat is also nothing other than the movement of the blood.”
“This new Etheric Heart organ, as sense organ or Sun-eye, will be able to develop for the future. When we look into ourselves, we can experience our etheric eye as a cognitive eye. It can become the organ for going into one’s own depth.”
“Outside in the world there is an analysis, a scattering, of all that is gathered together in the heart. If I look into my own heart, I find, as it were, the inverted heaven, the polar opposite – the microcosm of the macrocosm. On the one hand you have the periphery, the point extended to infinity, on the other you have the heart, which is the infinite sphere concentrated to a point. The whole world is within our heart.”
“In the heart, as far as the etheric Universe is concerned, you have a Cosmos gathered up into a center; and a gathering together of all that humans do in the world. This is the point where the Cosmos is joined to the karma of humanity — this intimate correspondence of the astral body with the etheric body is to be found nowhere in the human organism except in the heart. In our time, there are certain changes taking place in the heart by which gradually a ‘fifth chamber’ will develop. In this fifth chamber, the human being will have a new organ which will allow one to control life forces in a different way than is possible at the moment.”
Rudolf Steiner tells us:
“The function of the heart is not to pump blood through the body. It is a sensory organ. Through the heart’s activity the head can perceive the entire blood circulation. The pulsebeat is a barometer for health or illness. But the pulsebeat is also nothing other than the movement of the blood.”
“This new Etheric Heart organ, as sense organ or Sun-eye, will be able to develop for the future. When we look into ourselves, we can experience our etheric eye as a cognitive eye. It can become the organ for going into one’s own depth.”
“Outside in the world there is an analysis, a scattering, of all that is gathered together in the heart. If I look into my own heart, I find, as it were, the inverted heaven, the polar opposite – the microcosm of the macrocosm. On the one hand you have the periphery, the point extended to infinity, on the other you have the heart, which is the infinite sphere concentrated to a point. The whole world is within our heart.”
“In the heart, as far as the etheric Universe is concerned, you have a Cosmos gathered up into a center; and a gathering together of all that humans do in the world. This is the point where the Cosmos is joined to the karma of humanity — this intimate correspondence of the astral body with the etheric body is to be found nowhere in the human organism except in the heart. In our time, there are certain changes taking place in the heart by which gradually a ‘fifth chamber’ will develop. In this fifth chamber, the human being will have a new organ which will allow one to control life forces in a different way than is possible at the moment.”
