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Contemporary science views our planet as an insignificant speck of
dust in the vastness of space, with its four kingdoms as a random
assemblage of atoms. Yvan Rioux presents a radically different
perspective, demonstrating an indissoluble relationship between
Heaven and Earth. Over aeons of existence, the four kingdoms have
manifested a creative power that perpetually brings forth new
expressions. With the goal of bridging science and spirit, Rioux
helps revive the old intuitive awareness of an intimate communion
between the outer perceptible life of nature, the inner life of the
soul and the majestic spiritual formative forces that preside as
architects - an organic whole where all levels co-evolve. The
earth, nesting in its solar system, is connected with the Milky Way
and the twelve constellations. The impact of the stars as an
influence on human behaviour has been known for millennia. In the
original edition of Rudolf Steiner's Calendar of the Soul, twelve
illustrations of the constellations, made by Imma von Eckardstein,
were published for the first time. These intuitive drawings differ
greatly from the traditional ones, but Steiner stressed their
importance for our modern consciousness. The images invite us to
comprehend formative forces in their various guises in the kingdoms
of nature. By exploring the gifts of each constellation, the author
uses Imma's drawings as a template to elucidate the emergence of
twelve basic forms as the common denominators of all creatures,
leading eventually towards the human form. 'The [new] images of the
zodiac constellations represent actual experiences connected with
the waking and sleeping of particular spiritual beings. In these
images we have a knowledge that needs to be renewed at this
time...' - Rudolf Steiner (1912)
How are the internal and external forms of the human organism
shaped? How does human consciousness emerge? These are questions to
which conventional science has no answers. In The Seat of the Soul,
Yvan Rioux invites us to consider new concepts that can explain
these phenomena. His exposition is based on the existence of
external `formative forces' - or morphic fields - which, he argues,
create the human body or organism in conjunction with forces that
resonate within us from the living solar system. The psyche - or
soul - emerges progressively as an inner world of faculties that in
time learns to apprehend and understand the outer world. In his
previous book The Mystery of Emerging Form, Rioux explored the
formative forces of the twelve zodiacal constellations. In this
absorbing sequel, he investigates how such activity from the
planetary spheres works within us, as `life stages' or metabolic
processes. Through seven chapters, he explores the impact of each
of these planetary spheres on our complex organic make-up and
psychic activity. The link between organs and tissues, he says,
produces five specific `inner landscapes' in relation to the
external rhythmic environment. Rioux also gives a description of
Rudolf Steiner's seven `planetary seals' from a biological
perspective. According to Steiner, these seals are: `...occult
scripts, meaning that, as hidden signatures, they show their
ongoing etheric impacts on the seven stages of our metabolism'.
Between Steiner's indications concerning human physiology and the
ancient Chinese view on the subject, there is a convergence of
ideas - as synthesized here - that breaks through the boundaries of
modern reductionist science, offering exciting perspectives for
understanding the human being. `The seat of the soul is where the
inner world and the outer world meet. Where they overlap, it is in
every point of the overlap.' - Novalis
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