Inducing The Urpflanze
by Dennis Klocek
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In the book, Secrets of the Soil, the author, Christopher Bird, mentions the work of T. Galen Hieronymus, the inventor of the cosmic pipe. The cosmic pipe is a 6 foot length of PVC 6″ pipe filled with basalt flour with a copper wire running down the middle of the pipe. The pipe is then stood on end in the ground near a field in which a fanner wishes to grow a crop. This arrangement is said to vitalize plants and produce greater yields. This invention is a variation of towers, obelisks and pyramids used by agriculturists for the same purpose since ancient times. In the same book, Mr. Bird includes an interview with Harvey Lisle a bio-dynamic experimenter who has researched, among other things, the cosmic pipe. Mr. lisle did his research by dowsing and by chromatography. Mr. Lisle experimented by using a cosmic pipe to try to broadcast the Bio-Dynamic preparations. What he found was that the life force in the preparations showed strong deterioration when put inside the pipe. This was checked bychromatography. The article ended with Mr. Lisle questioning why the cosmic pipe would damp down life force when it apparently stimulated growth. This question became a burning one for this author. This paper is an attempt to take a look at the original versions of the cosmic pipe in order to try to gain insight into the problem of stimulating life in the agricultural sphere through the induction of cosmic forces.
Perhaps a beginning angle to explore this question would be to look at the principles of conduction, induction and capacitance in electric phenomena.
As I read Mr. Lisle’s comments about his experiments with the cosmic pipe, the same idea kept returning. I felt the copper wire down the center was in part responsible for the damping down of the life force. A copper wire is called paraelectric in electrical terminology because it conducts electricity, that is, it will not hold an electric charge but accepts it and allows it to move freely within the wire. Substances that are paraelectric are called conductors. Substances that do not allow electricity to pass freely are called dielectric. These substances will hold on to a charge but do not accept a charge easily so they are called insulators. Copper accepts a charge easily and passes it along. It is a conductor. Basalt is strongly dielectric. It does not accept a charge. Conductors create a flowing of energy in one direction. This flow draws energy from one place to another. This is the basic concept behind all of our electrical circuity in the modem world. Wires made of conductors carry charges from one point to another. This is fine except for the fact that in order for a conductor to work, a constant supply of force is necessary at one end. hi the modem world, we harness coal or water, sunlight or nuclear energy to keep a constant electromotive force at the ends of our conductors. In the cosmic pipe, the source of energy is the sun, the stars and the planets. Their charges are very weak but are constant. It is these weak fields which are constantly charging the biosphere with life energies according to the ideas of Rudolf Steiner. Rocks, metals, water, plants, and air are bathed in these weak fields to varying degrees. The basalt in the cosmic pipe acts, in effect, like a sponge or antennae for the weak cosmic emanations. More will be said later about the significance of the form of the cosmic pipe but its circular sides have a great significance for electric or magnetic phenomena. Why, then, did the life force not register in the B. D. preps placed within the radiations of the cosmic pipe? Perhaps the conductor drew them off at too rapid a rate, before they could build up into an energetic environment capable of enhancing the B. D. preparations which were placed inside the cosmic pipe. In order to make sense of such an assertion, it is necessary to take a look at some further concepts in the phenomena of electricity and magnetism.
A central concept which is connected to conduction is induction or inductance. There are many kinds of inductors in electrical studies, but at the basic level, induction simply means the transfer of a charge between two bodies when there is no direct physical contact. In the previous example of a copper wire conducting a charge, the simplest way to produce such a charge is to move the wire through the lines of force of a magnet. The magnetic lines have force in them. The wire passes through the lines and some of the force that is in the magnet is transferred or induced into the wire without the wire physically touching the magnet. As soon as the wire is out of the magnetic field, the induction ceases. If the wire is moved rapidly back and forth in the magnetic field, then the induction of its forces into the wire is increased. This is the basis for all of our electric generators and motors which produce electromotive force. As said earlier, conduction of this induced magnetic current requires unlimited supplies of energy to move the wires in a generator through the fields of a big magnet in order to produce electric power. In this system, the original force of the coal or water or sun is mostly lost as it is conducted through the wires. This is the dilemma of modem appliances which are based i on wires cutting through magnetic fields.
There are, however, many kinds of induction. One form of induction, electrostatic induction, can show us some basic principles by which we can move our idea one step further. Electrostatics or the study of electricity produced by friction, is an ancient way of looking at electricity. It was the primary study of men such as Benjamin Franklin, Luigi Galvani, and Allesandro Volta. The study of electrostatics involves the use of an electroscope. A simple one can be made by hanging a small piece of pith from the center of a reed, on the end of a thread. Take a piece of amber or nylon or PVC pipe and rub it with a piece of wool. Bring the rod or pipe near the pith ball and it will try to touch the end of the rod. This can be continued for a longtime until the rod no longer attracts the ball. By rubbing the rod with the wool, we have created a charge. The ball, which has no charge, is attracted to the rod because experience has shown that unlike charges attract. As the charge in the rod dissipates into the air, the rod and the ball become neutral and lose their attraction for each other. Suppose, however, that we once again charge the rod and let it attract the ball. If I place my finger on one side of the ball and then touch the ball with the charged rod, a curious thing happens. When I remove my finger, the pitch ball is now repelled by the rod. Electrostatics concludes that the rod and the ball now have the same charge. How did this happen?
My finger represents a ground to which a charge wants to flow. My finger is a conductor. When I touch the ball, I make the ball a conductor. Being a conductor, it draws a charge from the rod. Electrostatic force is now flowing into the ball and into my finger. When I pull my finger away, the force is still flowing from the rod into the ball. The ball is now the same charge as the rod and so they repel each other. This simple experiment reveals a deep mystery. It was later expanded upon in the invention of the Leydenjar. Large glass balls were rotated with cranks while an operator rubbed the rotating ball with fur. The resulting charges were led into a glass jar with tin foil on the inside and on the outside. Strong opposite charges would accumulate on the inner and outer surfaces of the glass and the charge could be stored for a short period of time. In the Leydenjar, static electricity migrated to the surface of the tin and the glass but not into the substances themselves. This was proved through experiment. Very strong voltages could be stored in ajar. The surfaces of the glass are induced to take a charge even though the glass is an insulator. Remember that a conductor cannot be charged because it keeps drawing forces away. While an insulator, which is a poor conductor, can be induced to hold a charge. This is a key idea when we wish to understand the relationship between electro-magnetism and the life forces found in the etheric world.
Electrostatic induction causes more force to be taken into a body than exists there normally. The body becomes charged with energy. The surface of the body is where the charge tends to congregate, not in the center. The rounder the surface, the more force the body can assimilate. What this accurately describes is the principle of the organism in biology.
Studies of the electrical and magnetic properties of simple organisms point to the relationships between crystalline structures in the center (cell nucleus) and the tension in the cell wall or membrane, brought on by electrical or magnetic stimulation. The importance of the membrane and its ability to carry and disperse charges is well documented in scientific literature. Round surfaces tend to collect and store strong charges as do the surfaces of membranes. If we could imagine a round cylinder or sphere made of many fine layers of an insulating material such as quartz or mica, we would be seeing a prototype of the Leyden jar. Such a prototype exists in the fetal layers surrounding an embryo and in the brain and its surrounding tissues. If the form were a cone shape made of many layers of calcium, we would have a mollusk. If the cone were made of quartz, we would have a cow horn. Any place where nature wants to enhance life and build a charge, we find circular surfaces composed of many layers of an insulating material.
In these natural forms, it is of the utmost importance that the increased charge of energy inside the cell or the organ or the organism is maintained and not leaked out into the environment. Through such systems of outer membranes, life becomes possible. The membranes must function in two distinct and polar ways. They must allow weak charges to enter the cell through induction. As the cell or organ or organism becomes charged and filled with life, the membranes must be capable of sustaining a higher charge. To do this, it must expand in an elastic way like a balloon. The more air we put in, the more the rubber membrane pushes back. The ability of an organism to induce and concentrate energy by expanding is called capacitance or capacity. In electrical phenomenon, the function played by the membrane in biology is taken by insulating or dielectric materials. These materials repel electricity. Two of the best dielectric insulators in use are glass and mica. These substances are used in the production of condensers which concentrate electrical energy in a given area. A simple condenser is made of two metal plates (conductors) with a dielectric (glass or mica) plate between them. The scientist Allesandro Volta used such a device to build static electricity charges when he was studying the electrical properties of common substances. Most substances are so weakly charged that they cannot be measured. Volta put arnica plate or a thin coat of shellac between the metals he was testing with an electroscope and by having to pass across an insulator, the weak charge could build on the surface of the metal. The insulator, in the form of a thin membrane, gives a certain “elastic” force to a weak charge (like the pressure building inside a balloon). Circular forms made of many thin layers of a dielectric, condense weak charges and allow them to build in pressure (voltage). It is important to note that there is no conduction in the build up of an electrostatic charge. Induction of weak charges and the storing of them along membranes is a continual process in’ nature. Diverse phenomena such as thunder-storms, earthquakes, and digestion of substances all are induction related. The crystal lattices in the great mountain ranges are inducing cosmic weak energies and storing these energies in the membranous inner surfaces of the rocks. Induction then, is an on going organic process in nature. Capacitance or the concentrating of .weak energies into powerful ones requires very special properties and conditions.
In the cosmic pipe mentioned at the beginning of this essay, the PVC and the basalt were dielectric insulators. The round form of the PVC pipe acts to condense the weak forces inducted from the cosmos. The copper wire draws the capacity from the pipe and directs it to the ground. Condensers, by balancing capacitance and induction, self regulate the flow of energies in a circuit. Indeed, this is often their purpose for being in a circuit, to act as a governor. Perhaps the wire in the cosmic pipe is conducting the life force before it has reached the proper stage. Whatever the case, the copper wire is an addition to a system which works best without conductors. The induction/capacitance model in electricity and magnetism is an objective, clear imagination at work in the complex energy exchanges involving the soil, plants, animals and human beings. We have found it as a model for diverse forms of horns, and organs in the animal world and in embryology.
It is also a model for the ancient cosmic technology employed in the erection of temples, pyramids, obelisks, and towers for the purpose of gathering and concentrating weak cosmic energies and then letting them spread gently but efficiently through the crop lands and farmsteads of the country. The cosmic pipe is an in artistic solution to the problem of inducing primal plant energies. By trying to force conduction through the use of the wire, it goes against the alchemical premise out of which it springs and takes a step into the explosive, driven, power squandering technology that has arisen around the once sacred forces of electricity and magnetism. In the next article, we will look at the work of etheric researchers past and present who seek to harmonize their agricultural science with the models so plentifully provided by Nature and Nature’s God.