Verena Stael von Holstein - Nature Spirits and What They Say: Messages from Elemental and Nature Beings

VERENA STAL VON HOLSTEIN was born in Rendsburg in 1959. She studied surveying and hydrography and worked as a computer programmer and in the hydrographic surveying department. She is a homemaker with two children, and lives at a watermill in Lneburger Heide, a heathland region in Northern Germany. A student of the work of Rudolf Steiner, from childhood onwards she has been able to perceive the etheric and astral realms in human beings and the natural world. She has learnt over many years to train her metaphysical perceptions so that communication with nature spirits takes place almost as a matter of course. She receives answers spiritually in the form of patterns, ideas and sometimes also images, and translates them into human concepts. She is the author of several books, including Nature Spirits of the Trees and What They Want to Tell Us.

NATURE SPIRITS

AND WHAT THEY SAY

MESSAGES FROM ELEMENTAL AND NATURE BEINGS

Verena Stal von Holstein

CLAIRVIEW

Clairview Books Ltd.,
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Published by Clairview Books 2019

First published in English by Floris Books, Edinburgh, 2004

Originally published in German under the title Was die Naturgeister uns sagen by Flensburger Hefte Verlag, Flensburg, 2001

Translated by Brian Strevens
Edited by Wolfgang Weirauch

Flensburger Hefte 2001
Translation Floris Books 2004

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ISBN 978 1 912992 13 3

Cover by Morgan Creative featuring images Klavdiya Krinichnaya and Subbotina Anna

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Contents

Foreword

Wolfgang Weirauch

In late summer 2001, shortly before the world was shaken by the attacks in New York of September 11, a manuscript from Verena Stal von Holstein arrived in our office, entitled Conversations with Miller. It appeared that, between March 1, 2000 and February 28, 2001, she and her husband, Friedrich Pfannenschmidt, had held conversations with nature spirits. Now it was lying there, her book proposal, five hundred A4 pages far too much text for a normal publication.

For almost a year we didnt touch the manuscript. But then, in the summer of 2002, I got to work on the text, recognized the value of these conversations and arranged to meet the writer, along with her husband. I still had doubts, I must admit. What would be waiting for me? Some kind of medium? Somebody on a huge ego trip? A dramatic spectacle?

In fact, after reading through the manuscript, most of my doubts had already disappeared, and my very last concerns vanished when I came to know the individuals and the nature spirits themselves.

They live in a watermill among scenic surroundings by a river in the Lneburger Heide, a heathland region in Northern Germany. I visited them three times, and over a period of four days spoke myself with the nature spirits and those meetings were extraordinary!

I discovered that Verena Stal von Holstein had learnt over many years to work on her supersensory perceptions so that she is able to translate almost simultaneously the language of the elemental beings into our human terms. And so the interviews took place with seventeen nature spirits, almost as though seventeen human beings were sitting in front of me.

As the interviews began, I allowed the nature spirits to penetrate all my thoughts and then, speaking aloud, I asked the first of the beings my questions. Verena Stal von Holstein received the answers spiritually in the form of patterns, ideas and sometimes also images, and conveyed the answers vocally. And they all spoke differently, some going into details, many just giving very brief answers, so that often I had to ask again to get a satisfactory reply. Now and again I was refused an answer or it was bluntly explained to me that my question was nonsensical, and once in a while I had to hold playful little battles of words with the nature spirits, just to get one more answer. The answers mostly came in a flash, and now and again the answer came even before I had properly put the question. They had read my thoughts!

Unfortunately no exact names exist for these beings. Here we use the following terms synonymously: elemental being, elemental spirit, nature-being, nature spirit and also spirit being. In a more precise sense the four elements are represented by the elemental beings the Stone One, the Sandy One, the Watery One, the Airy One and the Fiery One. The Little Glass Man, the Paper Being, the Salt Child or the Silver One are not elemental beings in the same sense, but represent spheres of nature and are without any difficulty to be described as nature-beings. In the case of the two house spirits Miller and Quadrom the definition becomes more difficult. They are active only partly in the elemental sphere, only partially in nature, but predominantly in the house. On the other hand all animal, marsh, plant and tree beings are clearly nature spirits, but not elemental beings.

Nonetheless all beings are active somewhere in nature, consequently they are nature spirits. Theyre also active in the etheric-spirit elemental particles or forces out of which our world is composed, and in this respect theyre also elemental beings. Only the High One, a higher being, who speaks in the spirit of Michael, doesnt belong to this category.

The different ways of speaking of the seventeen beings are difficult to convey. The conversations were often amusing and surprising, from time to time very serious, and often simply beautiful. One clearly experienced the atmosphere intensifying as the High One spoke. The Stone One was also impressive, speaking in a peculiar grammatical tense which doesnt exist for us, but which is intended to express his state of permanence past, present and future rolled into one.

The nature spirits have no human morality, but they know exactly how they can hurt and how they can help humans. They live in the spiritual-etheric interconnections of nature, they hold the world together and ensure the continued existence of the earth. They have never known freedom in the way that humans know it. Some of them are friends with one another, but what love is or how the feeling of love is experienced, they have also never known. They perceive the supersensible world, but how it is to live in a dark prison, in a physical body, and not to perceive the supersensible world is completely unknown to them.

In order to experience more closely this new land morality, love, freedom, ignorance of the spiritual world seventeen spirit beings have set out as a kind of advance party in order to speak with human beings. These conversations are extraordinarily important for them, because up to now the angels were their rulers, and taught them their tasks. But the angels are now withdrawing and leaving the elemental beings more and more alone. Human beings are their new masters, but human beings know nothing about them. For this reason the nature spirits are suffering and are afraid of humans. Thats precisely why these conversations between human beings and nature spirits are so important, for both sides. Both partners can learn from one another, draw closer to one another and cooperate in a totally new way.