Hi Roger,
My fantasy is a little differnt to yours.
Perhaps Steiner wasn't the one who gave the numbers, perhaps
he just gave the recipies. Steiner was concerned that we had active links
with the cosmos, the closer part of which are the seven visible planetry
bodies.
Perhaps the two preparations matured in cows horns relate to the winter Sun
and its digestive activity and the summer Sun and its ripening capacity.
Perhaps these two were given as a duality.
Then we might have
Moon / oakbark in skull in water / condencing calcium into carbon 505
Venus / Yarrow florets in a stags bladder / condencing the airy senitive
into the watery element of the bladder and urine. potasium, cu. sulfer.
Mercury / Chamomile that grows as a weed in anaerobic places and whose
flowers bring health to an unsettled digestive tract, oxygen, growth and
expansion. Is able to quell smells in anaerobic rotting processes. Cacium
and sulfer as a catalyst.
Mars / where light penetrates into plant tissue bringing a finenes and
delicacy to plant growth. Magnesium plus nitrogen iron calcium etc.
Jupiter the dandelion flower is tenuously attached by a delicate hollow
tube, almost not of this world. Wrapped in a messentry which is the message
centre of the body. The sola plexus divides the upper from the lower Is a
messanger from the cosmic world to the plant world as well as from the plant
world to the cosmic.One might describe it as a cosmic breathing. To help the
plants find what they need. Tin, zinc and hydrogen.
Saturn. the lord of warmth and cool. The boundary of the visible planets so
intended to form a boundary or skin to a compost or manure heap. To be an
individual one needs a boundary or a skin. Lead, phosphorus.
You ask the question as to what might correspond to the fruit; what about
clay?
I present this as another view and I'm sure others have their veiws that are
different than these two.
Well thats my brain gym for today!!
Best wishes,
Peter.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Roger Pye" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 4:56 PM
Subject: BD Brain Teasers
> 1. Did Steiner really intend BD502-507 to be used solely in compost
> manufacture?
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> 2. Did he identify equisetum as BD508 or was it someone else?
>
> 3. Is there a 'missing' BD509? If so, what might it and its purpose be?
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> Someone told me once, or I have read it and forgotten where, that the
> preps are not numbered sequentially but that 502-508 actually fall
> between 500 and 501. That is, the 'sequence' could be 500, 502, 503,
> 504, 505, 506, 507, 508, 501.
>
> The plant growth cycle is divisible into nine stages - mature seed,
> cotyledons, buds, leaves, calyx, petals, pistils, fruit, immature seed.
>
> There are at least twelve major building blocks of life - eg calcium,
> magnesium, potassium, sulphur, nitrogen, carbon, hydrogen, phosphorus,
> silicon, sodium, chlorine, manganese.
>
> There are also trace elements and other minerals that life needs - eg
> copper, mercury, iron, silver, tin, zinc, lead, aluminium.
>
> Now if we look at the preps we find that some of these are represented
> and the plant stages fit conveniently as well.
>
> 500 - horn manure - calcium - (balances soil, encourages microbial life)
> 502 - yarrow - sulphur - copper - (seed)
> 503 - chamomile - oxygen - mercury - (cotyledons)
> 504 - nettle - nitrogen - iron - (bud)
> 505 - oak bark - carbon - silver - (leaves)
> 506 - dandelion - hydrogen - tin - (calyx)
> 507 - valerian - phosphorus - lead - (petals)
> 508 - equisetum - silica - (pistils, stamen)
> (509) - ?? - ?? - (fruit)
> 501 - horn silica - light energy - (seed)
>
> Given the exactitude of scientists it seems unlikely that Steiner
> numbered his preparations in the order they 'came off the shelf' but
> that he had a reason for assigning the numbers as he did. One attribute
> all the preps have in common is energy. Could it be that in some way he
> assessed the amount of energy held within each prep, aligned it with the
> appropriate stage of plant growth, and numbered it accordingly?
>
> Back in 1924 the soils of Europe held a natural fertility that isn't
> there any more. Germany and Austria had been saddled with a reparations
> bill for world war I which was virtually impossible to pay (no prizes
> for guessing which country was behind that). Farmers were under pressure
> to produce more with less, added to which commodity prices were falling
> and would not recover for at least ten years. Hence the use of
> artificial fertilisers which were adversely affecting soil fertility.
>
> Steiner produced his preparations to counter those effects and take the
> soil back to its original fertility. How did he do that? Indeed, how did
> he know what that 'fertility' state was?
>
> Let us now enter the realm of fantasy. Let us suppose Steiner had a
> device which enabled him to measure the amount of 'standing' energy held
> in things and that at some time pre-superphosphate era he had measured
> the soil and come up with an amount I shall call X enertrons. In 1924 he
> remeasured the soil and it had a reading of X minus 100 enertrons. In
> developing the preps, he conceived that:
> horn manure would restore the level to X,
> seed germination required an additional 200en,
> cotyledrons another 300en
> buds another 400
> leaves another 500
> calyx another 600
> petals another 700
> pistils another 800
> fruit another 900
> mature seed another 1000
>
> His insights and experience led him to the development of matching preps
> and initially he numbered them to suit: 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600,
> 700, 800, 900, 1000.
>
> However he already had 499 homeopathic remedies. So he kept the capital
> figures, prefixed them with '50' and knocked off the remaining zeros,
> giving him 501, 502 . . . 509, 501. As he could not have two 501s, and
> did not have a 500 either, he took a further step and changed the first
> 501 to 500.
>
> As I said before, this is a fantasy. However, I do have a device which
> measures energy and this tells me that BD500 = 100, BD501 = 1000, and
> chamomile, nettle and dandelion = 200, 300 and 600 respectively. I can't
> measure the others because I don't have any but 5 out of 10 seems pretty
> good to me!
>
> So - what is BD509 and what does it do?
>
> roger
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