Volume 2: The World of Formative Forces

ERNST MARTI (1903-1985) was born in Switzerland and studied medicine in Vienna and Basel. He worked as a doctor in Solothorn and Arlesheim, Switzerland, where he met Ita Wegman. She entrusted him with the task of researching the etheric forces, to which he then devoted his whole life. He worked for more than 40 years as a doctor in Basel and founded the Society of Anthroposophical Doctors in Germany. He gave many lectures and courses for doctors as well as the general public and wrote numerous essays and papers that were published in specialist periodicals. He died at the Ita Wegman clinic.

• THE WORLD OF FORMATIVE OR MORPHOGENIC FORCES: – The Sense Qualities of the Visible World – The Nature of Sense Perception and the Formative Forces – On the Origin of Morphogenic Forces – Phenomenology of Etheric Formative or Morphogenic Forces – Formative Forces of Shape or Form – Growth movements in plants – Comparison of growth movements with movements of eurythmy – Origin in the stars of eurythmic formative forces – Formative forces of colour – Practical consequences – Sowing days according to Maria Thun – Curative Eurythmy – Formative forces of life – Planetary origin of the morphogenic forces of life – The seven life processes – The seven inner movements – Rhythm – Formative forces of substance – Substance, matter, processes – The three zodiacal substance crosses – The planets and the formative forces of substance in metals – On the nature of potentizing – Summary and outlook – Appendix – Notes – Outline Biography of Irmgard RossmannDr Marti’s life and work – Bibliography