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“In this book, we are not dealing, as is usually the case, with statements that are,
in my opinion, established facts.... The artistic part that lives in some form in each
human being can be used as a means of observation. Thus, it is possible to observe
things that would escape those who take the purely analytical, scientific approach....
It is of prime importance to discover a certain order, a plan, in the multitude of shapes.
To achieve this, we must study the skeleton as a whole. For our purpose, it is also
necessary to study the shape of a number of bones in a new way and by mutual
comparison.” —L. F. C. Mees
In this seminal study of human bone forms, Dr. Mees reveals the skeleton as an
articulate work of art. But who is the artist? Using a blend of phenomenological
observations and artistic intuition, the author carefully explores the anatomical
facts of the human skeleton, with the beauty of many bones impressively
described and illustrated through numerous parallel photographs and illustrations.
Dr. Mees discovers numerous intriguing correspondences of form, especially
between bones of the lower body and those of the skull. Interpreting the gestural
language hidden within the skeleton from the background of Rudolf Steiner’s
spiritual science, the author reaches startling conclusions concerning those
correspondences—conclusions that support the reality of reincarnation and
the concept of a body of formative forces, or what some call the human “etheric body.”
The book also contributes a discussion of polarity and intensification—the
essential laws of metamorphosis, as discovered by Goethe and revealed in
his writings. Mees clarifies the various types of metamorphosis as characterized
by the living realms of plant, animal, and human, and this, in turn, sheds new
light on the creationist vs. evolutionary controversy, as well as several other
contemporary spiritual dilemmas.
Contents:
- 1. Diversity of Shapes
- 2. Metamorphosis in the Vegetable, Animal, and Human Realms
- 3. Metamorphosis in the Human Skeleton
- 4. Viewing Our Discovered Phenomena in a New Light
- 5. The Tripartite Human Being
- 6. Metamorphosis and Evolution
- Conclusion
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