The Public Square: Stained Glass and Agriculture!

The Separation between State and Religion

In time we will realize that Democracy is the entitlement of individuals to every right that was in its times alloted to kings. The right to speak and decide, to be treated with decency, to serve and be served by people in a State of “love” that is, to serve with one’s work for the development of ‘life’. To belong to the Kingdom of Human Beings without racial, national, social or academic separations. To love and be loved. To die at the service of the whole and be honored in one’s death, for one’s life and work was legitimately valued. To be graceful and grateful. To have the pride and the humility of being One with the Universe, One with every realm of Existence, One with every living and deceased soul. To treat with dignity and be treated with dignity for One is dignified together with All others and Life itself. To walk the path of compassion, not in the sorrow of guilt but in the pride of being. To take responsability for one’s mistakes and sufferings and stand up again and again like a hero and a heroine and face the struggle that is put at one’s feet and in one’s hands. Millions of people, millions and millions of people might take many generations to realize the consciousness of our humaneness but there is no other dignified path for the human being.

The “work” as I conceive it is psychological and political. Psychology is the connection between the different dimensions within one’s self and Politics is the actualization of that consciousness in our practical lives. Religion is the ceremony that binds the connectedness between the individual and the Universe. The separation between religion, politics and science, the arts and sports is, in the sphere of the social, the reflection of the schizophrenia within the individual and the masses. The dialogue between individuality and the "human" belongs to consciousness. The tendency to develop cults resides in the shortcomings we’are finding in life as it is structured today. “Life” has become the private property of a few priviledged who cannot profit from it because as soon as it is appropriated it stops to be “life” or “life-giving”.

We are all the victims of our own invention and each one is called upon to find solutions. The only problem is believing our selves incapable of finding them. We are now free to use all Systems of knowledge objectively, sharing them without imposing our will on each other. To become objective about our lives means to understand that the institutions that govern its experience are critically important. That we are one with the governments, one with the religious activities that mark its pace, that the arena’s in which we move our bodies and the laboratories in which we explore our possibilities are ALL part and parcel of our own personal responsibility. That WE ARE ONE WITH EACH OTHER AND EVERYTHING AROUND US and acknowledge for ourselves a bond of love in conscious responsibility. That we human beings know ourselves part of each other and are willing and able to act on our behalf for the benefit of each and every individual. That we no longer allow governments, industries, universities or any other institution to run along unchecked by the objective principles of humaneness. That we do not allow gurus to abuse their power or governors to steal the taxes and use them to their personal advantage in detriment of the whole. That we do not allow abuse from anyone anywhere because life is too beautiful to do so and that we are willing to stop the rampant crime with the necessary compassion Conscious knowledge is every individual's right. Conscious action is every individual's duty.

Friday 17 September 2010

Stained Glass and Agriculture!

Hi Mani and all,

Since I've been working with glass but know little about it, I am wondering if you'd enjoy it if I share my findings on it as I go along. My time is short but I could add little bits at a time.

Should this not be Objective Art as you enjoy it, please feel free to take it off as soon as you like.

Tonight I found the following in wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stained_glass and remembered the importance of these substances for Steiner in Agriculture so I looked it up and am much enjoying the relationship between two completely different spheres but so similar in their own way. Silica and lime on plants and color and light plus content on human beings:

From the 10th or 11th century, when stained glass began to flourish as an art, glass factories were set up where there was a ready supply of silica, the essential material for glass manufacture. Silica requires very high heat to become molten, something furnaces of the time were unable to achieve. So materials needed to be added to both modify the silica network to allow the silica to melt at a lower temperature (potash, soda, lead), and then to rebuild the weakened network (lime) and make the glass more stable. Glass is colored by adding metallic oxides while it is in a molten state. Copper oxides produce green, cobalt makes blue, and gold produces red glass. Much modern red glass is produced using copper, which is less expensive than gold and gives a brighter, more vermilion shade of red. Glass colored while in the clay pot in the furnace is known as pot metal glass, as opposed to flashed glass

then from: http://quantumagriculture.com/atmospheric-elements-of-biodynamic-fa...

Steiner saw that the digestive, nutritive patterns of the soil revolve around lime, whereas the patterns of the atmosphere revolve around silica. His basic remedy for the atmosphere was finely ground quartz crystal, buried in a cow horn over the summer. Normally this is applied at the rate of a gram per acre, stirred for an hour in water, and misted into the leafy, fruiting region above the soil in the early morning. It provides excellent patterning for the atmosphere. When you think about it, silica forms many of the finest particles in the atmosphere. While it would be dangerous to pump tons of micron zed silica into the atmosphere, spraying a mist patterned with a homeopathic dose of horn quartz has a remarkable organizational effect.
Organization is, after all, the basis of life — organ, organic, organize, organism.
Silica, in its pure form as quartz, is a superb vehicle for patterns. Once I began to understand patterning, I could see Steiner’s remedies were pure genius, as they worked with homeopathic Organizational patterning. The so-called BD preps included silica patterns for the atmosphere and lime patterns for the soil. In between were the patterns of clay, which affected the ebb and flow of sap between soil and atmosphere. Clay was the bridge between the two extremes.

Silica –. Silica helps enhance the light metabolism of plants, aiding in the resistance to fungal dis-ease and chewing insects. The bd 501 also helps to encourage the growth of mycorrhizal fungus within the soil.