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circumstances, but that in our case she would recommend one. We made an appointment
with the local public school‘s faculty despite our fear of public school instilled in us by
Waldorf, the media, and childhood experiences and enrolled our daughter in public school.
My family ended up having a positive experience with that school. Recovery was long and
difficult, with frequent visits to the hospital over the following year, but my daughter made
progress and has fully recovered. She is a healthy, happy teenager now. But even with the
experience of being immersed in an alternate reality, we still did not have the historic or
esoteric information necessary to comprehend and decode the Anthroposophic doctor‘s
recommendations or some of our unusual Waldorf experiences.
After leaving Waldorf I began studying Anthroposophy and related new religious movements
and have been able to fathom aspects of the alchemical prescription we were given. I
learned of a sculpture designed and carved by Rudolf Steiner, with some help from his
disciple Edith Marion, who left the magical Order of the Golden Dawn in England to work
with Steiner at developing his spiritual art and Eurythmy in Dornach, Switzerland. The
sculpture depicts Steiner‘s trinity of Ahriman, Lucifer, and Christ the Sun Being—the Aryan
Christ. Carved over ―the Christ‘s‖ heart is a flame just like the one I was to rub on my
child‘s heart at bedtime with gold cream. Further reading of Steiner‘s The Universal Human
brought to light Steiner‘s teachings of the Sun Being‘s healing powers at sunset.
It is therefore important that the deeds of Christ Jesus are always seen in
relation to the physical sun, which is the external expression of the spiritual
world that is received at the point where Christ‘s physical body is walking
around. When Christ Jesus heals, for instance, it is the sun force that heals.
However, the sun force must be in the right place in the heavens: ―That
evening, at sundown, they brought to him all who were sick or possessed with
demons.‖ It is important to indicate that this healing power can flow down
only when the external sun has set but still works spiritually. (Steiner, 1990,
p. 65)
The alchemical instructions given to us by the Anthroposophical doctor stated that Aurum
(gold/sun) cream should be applied in the shape of a flame over my sick child‘s heart at
bedtime—sundown, when the Christ heals and casts out demons. A homeopathic paper
published in Homeopathy Times, November, 1994 entitled Some Light on the
(Mis)understanding of Aurum Metallicum, by Dr. Rajesh Shah, reinforced the concept that
gold should be prescribed for the suicidal (Shah, 1994,
http://www.indiaspace.com/homoeopathy/aurum.htm ,paragraph 14).
Other ―deeper‖ aspects of the prescription have also revealed themselves with reading.
Linked to the doctor‘s instructions to apply ―Oxalis cream over abdomen‖ is Steiner‘s
concept that human beings make formic acid from oxalic acid. Formic acid can be found in
human beings and insects, especially concentrated in ants. He taught his followers that the
formic acid ants secret is very good medicine (Steiner, 1998a, p. 144). He believed that the
air is full of oxygen, nitrogen, and formic acid, which is intelligence and that it is ―more
difficult to transmit a telegram in a region where there are not ant colonies than it is in a
region where they exist, because the electricity and the magnetism needed for telegraphy
depend upon formic acid (Steiner, 1998a, p.155). He preached:
It is uniquely the case with a human being that throughout life until death, a
person possesses the capacity to make formic acid from oxalic acid. But then
a human being loses this capability, and the physical body dies. Then the
human soul has to wait before once again receiving a body, which in a child
properly transforms oxalic acid into formic acid…
If you carefully observe a dying individual, you‘ll get the feeling that there is
an effort on the part of this person, even in the process of dying, to find out
circumstances, but that in our case she would recommend one. We made an appointment
with the local public school‘s faculty despite our fear of public school instilled in us by
Waldorf, the media, and childhood experiences and enrolled our daughter in public school.
My family ended up having a positive experience with that school. Recovery was long and
difficult, with frequent visits to the hospital over the following year, but my daughter made
progress and has fully recovered. She is a healthy, happy teenager now. But even with the
experience of being immersed in an alternate reality, we still did not have the historic or
esoteric information necessary to comprehend and decode the Anthroposophic doctor‘s
recommendations or some of our unusual Waldorf experiences.
After leaving Waldorf I began studying Anthroposophy and related new religious movements
and have been able to fathom aspects of the alchemical prescription we were given. I
learned of a sculpture designed and carved by Rudolf Steiner, with some help from his
disciple Edith Marion, who left the magical Order of the Golden Dawn in England to work
with Steiner at developing his spiritual art and Eurythmy in Dornach, Switzerland. The
sculpture depicts Steiner‘s trinity of Ahriman, Lucifer, and Christ the Sun Being—the Aryan
Christ. Carved over ―the Christ‘s‖ heart is a flame just like the one I was to rub on my
child‘s heart at bedtime with gold cream. Further reading of Steiner‘s The Universal Human
brought to light Steiner‘s teachings of the Sun Being‘s healing powers at sunset.
It is therefore important that the deeds of Christ Jesus are always seen in
relation to the physical sun, which is the external expression of the spiritual
world that is received at the point where Christ‘s physical body is walking
around. When Christ Jesus heals, for instance, it is the sun force that heals.
However, the sun force must be in the right place in the heavens: ―That
evening, at sundown, they brought to him all who were sick or possessed with
demons.‖ It is important to indicate that this healing power can flow down
only when the external sun has set but still works spiritually. (Steiner, 1990,
p. 65)
The alchemical instructions given to us by the Anthroposophical doctor stated that Aurum
(gold/sun) cream should be applied in the shape of a flame over my sick child‘s heart at
bedtime—sundown, when the Christ heals and casts out demons. A homeopathic paper
published in Homeopathy Times, November, 1994 entitled Some Light on the
(Mis)understanding of Aurum Metallicum, by Dr. Rajesh Shah, reinforced the concept that
gold should be prescribed for the suicidal (Shah, 1994,
http://www.indiaspace.com/homoeopathy/aurum.htm ,paragraph 14).
Other ―deeper‖ aspects of the prescription have also revealed themselves with reading.
Linked to the doctor‘s instructions to apply ―Oxalis cream over abdomen‖ is Steiner‘s
concept that human beings make formic acid from oxalic acid. Formic acid can be found in
human beings and insects, especially concentrated in ants. He taught his followers that the
formic acid ants secret is very good medicine (Steiner, 1998a, p. 144). He believed that the
air is full of oxygen, nitrogen, and formic acid, which is intelligence and that it is ―more
difficult to transmit a telegram in a region where there are not ant colonies than it is in a
region where they exist, because the electricity and the magnetism needed for telegraphy
depend upon formic acid (Steiner, 1998a, p.155). He preached:
It is uniquely the case with a human being that throughout life until death, a
person possesses the capacity to make formic acid from oxalic acid. But then
a human being loses this capability, and the physical body dies. Then the
human soul has to wait before once again receiving a body, which in a child
properly transforms oxalic acid into formic acid…
If you carefully observe a dying individual, you‘ll get the feeling that there is
an effort on the part of this person, even in the process of dying, to find out
