Water

Water refers to:

• the physical substance, mostly found in its liquid form on Earth, characterized by its molecular constitution of H₂0, and studied in in chemistry and physics as part of mineral science, and
• the principle of the element of water as part of the Four elements in spiritual science, see Spectrum of elements and ethers.

Water as a substance

Water on Earth, as mineral physical matter (usually in its fluid state), theoretically consists of hydrogen and oxygen, but in reality it is a mix with manifold mineral substances all in extraordinarily rarefied condition, see also Potentization. This means that water is not neutral, but acts as a living substance and a carrier of formative forces of minerals - see Metals in Mineral kingdom.

Man's body consists of about eighty percent of water, and this is where we find the effect of the formative forces in the Human etheric body.

Water as an element

In the four classical elements (of fire, air, water and earth) within a spiritual scientific framework, water corresponds to the astral element and relates to renunciation (see FMC00.225 on Four elements, and GA132). In the spiritual scientific evolutionary framework, this principle of water arose together with the chemical ether during the Old Moon stage of the solar system evolution. On current Earth in the current Condition of Life, water appeared as part of the astral Condition of Form, see Schema FMC00.006A

Aspects

In the human being

• water has a tremendous influence on the human ether body... and the Egyptians and Indians discovered the human etheric body through their experience with water (1924-03-01-GA353)
  • the human physical body is 80% water and liquid
• as part of initiation exercises: the magical effects of water, see eg Bardon's IIH step 1

In nature

• water in its different aggregate states: as as gaseous airy moisture, as liquid, frozen as ice
• process in nature on Earth and the Earth's hydrosphere

Research

• water quality, see Drop picture method
• flowforms are physical forms, structures geometrically designed to support the dynamic rhythms in water flows
• the pioneering research by Theodor Schwenk (1910-1985) and Viktor Schauberger (1885-1958) - see References below
• research institutes:
  • Institute of flow sciences, founded by Theodor Schwenk
  • healing-water.org, founded by John Wilkes
  • more here
• detection of large bodies of water, such an underground channels, with radiesthesy, see Dowsing

Inspirational quotes

1924-02-02-GA234

In the face of real knowledge it is childish to believe that all that is at work here — in the sea, in the rivers, rising mists, falling drops and cloud formations — contains only what the physicist and chemist know about water. For in all that is out there in the mighty drop of the ‘water-earth’, in what constantly rises in the form of vapour, forms clouds and descends as mist, in all the other aqueous processes — water indeed plays an enormous part in shaping the face of the globe — in all this etheric currents are working. .. one finds the etheric at work in all the aqueous processes of the Earth.

Lecture coverage and references

1923-10-06-GA229

points out that the combination of water and air as we find on earth is alchemically called quicksilver or mercury, and water contains mineral substances in an extraordinarily rarefied condition

.. even in the earthly realm the effects of enormous dilutions must be reckoned with. We can draw water from a river or a well and use it as water. Yes, it is water, but there is no water that consists solely of hydrogen and oxygen. It would be absurd for anyone to suppose that water consists of hydrogen and oxygen only. In the case of mineral waters and such-like, it is of course obvious that something else is present. But there is no water composed solely of hydrogen and oxygen: that is only a first approximation.

All water, wherever it appears, is permeated with something else. Essentially, the whole water-mass of the Earth is quicksilver for the universe. Only the small quantities we use are water for us. For the universe, this water is not water, but quicksilver.

.. embedded in this quicksilver, naturally, are metallic substances — in brief, all the earthly substances ..

1924-02-02-GA234

Now, when one progresses through meditation to the ‘imaginative’ knowledge of which I have already spoken, one finds the etheric at work in all the aqueous processes of the Earth.

In the face of real knowledge it is childish to believe that all that is at work here — in the sea, in the rivers, rising mists, falling drops and cloud formations — contains only what the physicist and chemist know about water. For in all that is out there in the mighty drop of the ‘water-earth’, in what constantly rises in the form of vapour, forms clouds and descends as mist, in all the other aqueous processes — water plays, indeed, an enormous part in shaping the face of the globe — in all this etheric currents are working.

Here is weaving the ether revealed to one in ‘pictures’ when one has strengthened one's thinking in the way I have described.

Everywhere behind this weaving water the cosmic ‘imagination’ is weaving, and the astral ‘music of the spheres’ plays everywhere into this cosmic imagination, coming — in a sense — from behind.

1924-03-01-GA353

describes how the water in an area acts particularly strongly on the etheric body

.. water has a tremendous influence on the human ether body. The Egyptians still had the instinct that enabled them to say: The human being has not only a physical but also an ether body.

...

When the Indians came to Egypt they appreciated the beneficial qualities of water, and said: This does not act on the physical body, but on a higher body in the human being. And so the Egyptians, and with them the Indians, really discovered the etheric body through their experience with water. Having discovered the ether body, the Egyptians developed the whole of their religion as a religion of the ether body.

Discussion

Note 1 - Water as a mineral

Water is not classified as a mineral, since it lacks a crystal structure being that it is in a liquid form. However when water freezes into ice, it is a mineral.

Water and Mercury are the only two naturally occurring, inorganic substances with a definitive chemical formula that occur in a liquid state at normal temperatures.

The definition of a mineral is that it is a naturally occurring, inorganic, chemical compound of limited chemical composition, with a crystalline structure.

• Naturally occurring: Yes.
• Inorganic? While water is sometimes the result of biological activity, it is, for the most part inorganic, so yes, inorganic.
• Fixed or limited chemical composition? Yes , H2O. There isn't really any other element that can substitute for hydrogen or oxygen in the structure of water and maintain the chemical properties of water.
• Crystalline structure?
  • No, water is an amorphous substance, ordered internal atomic structure. However, when water freezes into ice or snow, it will have an ordered internal atomic structure. Ice or snow has (have) hexagonal atomic arrangement and therefore they are Minerals. Note that Ice must be naturally occurring, meaning ice cubes and ice in a refrigerator is not a mineral. Snow is always a mineral
  • Yes - snowflakes are water crystals. Pretty much everything has a melting point, and water's is pretty low, so low that most of the time we see it as a liquid but below 0 degrees C it is a crystalline solid.
• It is a solid in the natural state: No; it is a Liquid (However, there is an exception to this rule, for example: Mercury is a liquid).

Note 2 - Vitalising water

•  C. Sutter-Picariello, M. Schleyer, C. Liess: 'Untersuchung von Methoden der Wasserbehandlung zur Qualitätsverbesserung, so genannte „Vitalisierung“, „Energetisierung“ oder „Belebung“' (Projektbericht, Herrischried: Institut für Strömungswissenschaften, 2013)

• Jochen Schwuchow, John Wilkes, Iain Trousdell: 'Energizing Water - Flowform Technology and the Power of Nature (2010)

• Ulrich Holst: 'Die Geheimnisse der Wasserbelebung' (2004)
• D. Schmidt: 'Untersuchung der Wirkung von Wasserbelebungsgeräten auf Bildekräfte-Ebene. Qualitätsuntersuchungen im biologische Gartenbau. (2005)
• Andreas Schulz: 'Geräte zur Wasserbelebung' (2006)
• Eckhard Weber: 'Wasser vitalisieren, Trinkwasser aktivieren, energetisieren, beleben' (2006)

Related pages

• Four elements
• Dowsing
• Potentization
• Spectrum of elements and ethers
• Formative forces
• Worldview Spiritual Science

References and further reading

Some key authors

Theodor Schwenk

• Theodor Schwenk (1910-1986)
  • 'Sensitive chaos: the creation of flow forms in water and air' (1962 in DE, EN versions 1965 revised 1996)
  • 'Bewegungsformen des Wassers'' (1967)
  • 'Das Wasser, Herausforderung an das moderne Bewusstsein : acht Vorträge von 1967 bis 1979' (1985)
• Theodor Schwenk and Wolfram Schwenk
  • 'Water - the element of life' (1989)
• Wolfram Schwenk
  • The Hidden Qualities of Water (2007 in EN)
  • with Andreas Wilkens, Michael Jacobi: 'Understanding Water: Developments from the Work of Theodor Schwenk' (2019 in EN, original 1995 in DE as 'Wasser verstehen lernen. Sensibles Wasser)

Viktor Schauberger

• Viktor Schauberger (1885-1958)
  • Das Wesen des Wassers (Originaltexte, herausgegeben und kommentiert von Jörg Schauberger)
  • Eco-Technology 1: The Water Wizard - The Extraordinary Properties of Natural Water (1998, w. Coats, Callum)
• Olof Andersson: 'Living Water: Viktor Schauberger and the Secrets of Natural Energy' (1990, 2002), in DE: 'Lebendes Wasser. Über Viktor Schauberger und eine neue Technik um unsere Umwelt zu retten' (1976, 1993)
• C. Coats: 'Naturenergien verstehen und nutzen. Viktor Schaubergers geniale Entdeckungen' (1999)
• Alick Bartholomew: 'Hidden Nature: The Startling Insights of Viktor Schauberger (2004)

Others

• Masaru Emoto (1943-2014)
  • website: masaru-emoto.net
  • 'The message from water' Vol 1 (1999) and Vol 2 (2001)
  • 'Wasserkristalle, Was das Wasser zu sagen hat' (2001)
  • 'The hidden messages in water' (2004)
  • The miracle of water (2007)
• M. Pitkanen: 'The experiments of Masaru Emoto with emotional imprinting of water' (2018), paper

• Alexander Lauterwasser (1951-)
  • 'Wasser Klang Bilder. Die schöpferische Musik des Weltalls (2002)
  • 'WasserMusik. Geheimnis und Schönheit im Zusammenspiel von Wasser- und Klangwellen' (2005)
  • website: www.wasserklangbilder.de/
• Martin F. Chaplin: see website for overview of publications on water, oa
  • 'The Memory of Water: an overview' (2007)
  • 'Structure and properties of water in its various states' (2019)

• Malcolm Lyall-Watson: The Water Planet: A Celebration of the Wonder of Water (1988)

Flowforms and vitalising water

• John Wilkes ( - 2011): 'Flowforms: The Rhythmic Power of Water' (2003)

• Ulrich Holst: 'Die Geheimnisse der Wasserbelebung' (2004)
• D. Schmidt: 'Untersuchung der Wirkung von Wasserbelebungsgeräten auf Bildekräfte-Ebene. Qualitätsuntersuchungen im biologische Gartenbau. (2005)
• Andreas Schulz: 'Geräte zur Wasserbelebung' (2006)
• Eckhard Weber: 'Wasser vitalisieren, Trinkwasser aktivieren, energetisieren, beleben' (2006)
• Jochen Schwuchow, John Wilkes, Iain Trousdell: 'Energizing Water: Flowform Technology and the Power of Nature' (2010)
• C. Sutter-Picariello, M. Schleyer, C. Liess: 'Untersuchung von Methoden der Wasserbehandlung zur Qualitätsverbesserung, so genannte „Vitalisierung“, „Energetisierung“ oder „Belebung“' (Projektbericht, Herrischried: Institut für Strömungswissenschaften, 2013)

More

• More references: here