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posted January 12, 2012 08:45 PM            

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The leaf is the caterpillar which has come under the influence of what is earthly...
The whole cocoon is actually cosmic sunlight, sunlight which is interwoven with matter....
...it spins its matter in the direction of the Sun's rays...
...And finally the butterfly develops in the flower which is colored just like the butterfly in the air. The circle is completed. Just as the butterfly lays its egg, so does the flower develop within itself the new seed for the future. So you see, we look up towards the butterfly and understand it to it to be the plant raised up into the air.
...We can therefore place before ourselves two verses which give expression to a great secret of nature...
Behold the plant:
It is the butterfly
Fettered by the Earth
Behold the butterfly:
It is the plant
Freed by the cosmos
If one looks at a butterfly or indeed any insect form the stage of the egg to when it is fluttering away, it is the plant raised into the air, fashioned in the air by the cosmos. If one looks at a plant it is the butterfly in the fetters below. The egg is claimed by the earth The caterpillar is metamorphosed into leaf formation. The chrysalis formation is metamorphosed into what is contracted in the plant. And then the same principle that unfolds to give the butterfly develops into the flower in the plant. Small wonder that such an intimate relationship exists between the world of butterflies, the insect-world in general, and the world of the plants.
...You see, one must really say that understanding of the world cannot come about through abstractions.For abstractions do not attain to understanding. Cosmic activity is indeed the greatest of artists.

~ R. Steiner

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posted January 12, 2012 09:47 PM            

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Wow, I had been trying to search my files for this back when I did the Butterfly thread in LLC2 and couldn`t find it.

Thank you, so beautiful

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Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. ~Rumi~

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posted January 16, 2012 01:08 PM            

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posted January 16, 2012 09:12 PM            

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Makes you feel warm and yummy inside

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posted February 20, 2012 04:29 PM            

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Behold the plant:
It is the butterfly
Fettered by the Earth
Behold the butterfly:
It is the plant
Freed by the cosmos

sigh

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Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. ~Rumi~

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posted March 01, 2012 09:21 AM            

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Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. ~Rumi~

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posted March 19, 2012 04:19 PM            

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"Never mentally imagine for another that which you would not want to experience for yourself, since the mental image you send out inevitably comes back to you." Rebecca Clark

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posted August 25, 2012 06:42 AM            

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Good stuff.

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"Never mentally imagine for another that which you would not want to experience for yourself, since the mental image you send out inevitably comes back to you." Rebecca Clark

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