NATURE SPIRIT

In ancient times, when people had a natural spiritual vision, human beings communed with nature spirits. These spirits -which are also referred to as elemental beings -became known as fairies and gnomes, and are immortalized in myth, legend and stories for children.

It is Rudolf Steiner’s contention, based on knowledge attained through his own highly-trained clairvoyance, that this aspect of traditional folk wisdom is based on spiritual reality. In our time, he states, the instinctive understanding that humankind once had for these elemental beings must be transformed into a clear scientific knowledge. Without developing this new relationship to these beings, humanity will not be able to bridge the gulf that separates it from the spiritual world. For the nature spirits can be of great assistance to us in this goal, acting as ‘emissaries of higher divine spiritual beings’.