The Sparkling Droplet

By: Walther Bühler
Original title: Der funkelnde Tropfen. Merkurstab special suppl. Beiträge zu einer Erweiterung der Heilkunst nach geisteswissenschaftlichen Erkenntnissen 1987;40(Sonderheft-2):6-16.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.14271/DMS-15169-DE
English by A. R. Meuss, FIL, MTA.
This translation is published with the kind permission of the journal Der Merkurstab.

JAM Vol. 13(2), Summer 1996

Excerpt: To grasp and understand the truth and living reality of the natural world, we must above all find a law that offers the transition from one opposite to the other and allows us to see that the law itself is the source-spring of freedom, with deviation from it merely a consequence and further effect of a law that takes manifold forms. This requirement is, however, met in a better way by our law than by any other. As has been shown in the general part of this book, the forms arising from it range from those showing strict regularity to those that show free expression. The law reconciles the idea of unity and uniformity on one hand with that of variety and manifoldness on the other, taking us from the realm of the finite into that of infinity, where it bases itself on the firm measure of a whole that has definite limits and by an infinitely subtle division of the whole which is capable of being continued to infinity, shows that within this finite element, infinity, too, is to be found.

Citation: Bühler, W. (1996). The Sparkling Droplet (A. R. Meuss, Trans.). Journal of Anthroposophic Medicine, 13(2), 60–71.