Hurricanes and Steam Engines? James Watt [inventor of the steam engine]... constructed his mobile apparatus in such a way that he could call it the 'movement of the sun and the planets'. He spoke of it thus becasue he was really guided by what is concieved in the Copernican system as the revolution of the planets around the sun. He had actually brought down and concealed within the steam engine what had been learned in the modern age as the movement of the heavenly bodies. Now bear in mind what I recently explained as Something that will happen but which is at present only in its beginnings; that is, that delicate vibrarations will accumulate and tremendous effects will thus be produced. Thank god, it has not yet been achieved! But the beginning lies in the fact that the movement of the sun and the planets is copied. Since the movements of the sun and the planets possess a profound significance for our earth when they radiate inward, do you believe that they possess no significance when we copy them here in miniature and cause them to radiate outward again into cosmic space? What then happens has profound significance for the cosmos. Here you see directly how even these vibrations I spoke of are now added to the demon through which he can unfold his activity outward into cosmic space. (Rudolf Steiner, Dornach, November 26, 1916; GA-172) See also: - Embryonic Cosmology SUBMIT AN ARTICLE posted: january 22, 2007