MOON MAGIC

Hokitika Guardian, 5 December 1931, Page 6

MOON MAGIC

PRIMITIVE RULES. creed of anthroposophy. LONDON, October 13. Black Magic in Finland is making the cables from that country hum. But moon magic nearer home is getting attention. And moon magic, too, has its roots in ancient if not primitive lore. The rftory is being reported from ■ Bray there was once a vicar of that place, wasn’t there? Well then, at Bray are the headquarters, of 'the Anthroposophicai' Agricultural Foundation, set up by one Rudolph Steiner. Rudolph is a remarkable man—mystic oculist and architect, he combines all in his own proper person. This body which he has founded legards the earth as a living organism, and as such influenced in its growth by its environment. Hence the stiorg belief that growth of crops on this planet is influenced by the moon and by other planets. These ■ aiithroposophists declare that the ancient belief in regulating sowing and harvesting by the mood is fully borne out by experiments which they have carried out in that belief.

One members of the society, a Madame Kolisko, found that peas planted two days before fuH moon yielded two and a half times as much as those .planted before the new moon, beans half as much again, tomatoes nearly double. Another declares: We are endeavouring to give farmers who come to us for guidance a point of view that will enable them to understand their land. ... “We know that strawberries taste sweeter when grown near roses or fir trees, that potatoes do better iii a field where horseradish has been grown. But as yet we do not know why. Those are two of many things we are trying to find out.” They want to get back to the ancient wisdom which was guided by phases of the moon. They declare that the mood made its - inflii®nce felt through the water in the plant aiid, by a strange coincidence, further recoids kept bv a Shropshire fanner showed that the two days before Jull moon were a.‘most invariably moist- ones.