TIN – Jupiter’s Thunderbolt
Tin, like the metals of the other planets ‘above the sun’ is a poor conductor of heat and electricity, but as Pelikan mentions, at the extremely low temperature of liquid helium it suddenly becomes ‘superconductive.’
Tin is usually found in granite rock in the form of tin-stone, the ore cassiterite. Considered to be the oldest primeval rock found on the planet, granite is normally formed of quartz, feldspar and mica, but when a vein of tin enters the rock it destroys the feldspar and tinstone takes it place; the accompanying fluorine minerals change the surrounding rock and it becomes en jewelled with topaz.
According to Uyldert1 tin in the earth’s crust occurs mainly in a ring around the earth which coincides with the ecliptic, at an angle of 23 54 degrees to the equator, in the lands of Bolivia, Nigeria, Indonesia, Burma and China. Much of our tin comes from the islands of Malaysia (one of the highest producers), and is also mined in Spain, Portugal, Japan and Tasmama, all of these areas transmitting through the tin the forces of the planet Jupiter. These forces form the tin veins into curious zig-zags in the rock, like forked lightning, the signature of Jupiter’s thunderbolt.
Lilly Kolisko describes Goethe’s fascination with granite which along with gneiss he considered the archetypal rocks out of which many other rocks and minerals developed. Heobserved that “a remarkable influence proceeds from the metal Tin; this has a differentiating influence, and opens a door, through which a way is provided for different metals to be formed from primeval rocks.”4
USES OF TIN
Pure tin is quite expensive, it forms less than 2% of the world’s ores, so we see most tin used in the form of alloys or as a thin coating to protect and plate other metals. Everyone is familiar with the humble tin can, where a thin layer is used to coat iron to prevent it from rusting, and to provide food with the preserving qualities of Jupiter. Flowers last longer in a tin vase, and beer (ruled by Jupiter the jovial) is said to taste better when drunk from a tin mug.
Tin combines easily with other metals such as copper, zinc and nickel which benefit from its soft and pliable nature, and also its inner strength. The large heavy bronze church bells in medieval days were said to be cast from four parts copper to one part tin. Other musical instruments such as organ pipes, flutes, cymbals and gongs are made of tin alloys, evoking the pleasure-loving Jupiter who presides benevolently over music and musicians.
Tin was a rare and valuable metal for the Babylonians and Egyptians, and jewelry made from tin has been discovered in old Persian tombs. The ancient Egyptians used tin salts as a mordant for dyeing, and it is put to the same use in industry today. Although being colourless itself, tin has the quality of bringing out the colour which lies latent in other substances.
Tin is also widely used as solder when alloyed with other metals including lead. It fuses metal to metal, just as the Jupiter-tin force links bone with bone through the cartilage in the body, or thought with thought in the realm of the intellect.
Tinfoil is another common form of this metal, also once made by the Romans who used it for mirrors. Today tin is used in glassmaking, in the silk trade, in weaponry, technology and steelmaking and as bronze in heavy industry. The purest tin, Uyldert writes,’ ‘is used in nuclear reactors, and in electronics and space travel: it is 99.99995% pure.”
TIN IN THE ORGANISM
“In the course of time the planet Jupiter weaves an invisible net as it moves initsorbit. This net encloses the Jupiter Sphere. The influences of this sphere penetrate the whole earth and everything within and around it…” L. Kolisko
The influences of the Jupiter-tin force in the organism are shown at work in the shaping or moulding processes of the body, the development of form from formless embryonic substance. Describing this process, scientist Lilly Kolisko writes:’ ‘What Nature does is similar to the activity of an Artist as he moulds some malleable material, such as clay, into a definite form.”4
This moulding force works particularly in the muscular system, moulding the outward form of the body and the soft organs into a definite shape. Continuing on from this purely physical process, the tin force expands its sphere of activity to work in the gradual development of the thinking process, “…this spiritual activity, with which Man shapes his thoughts, is not only connected with the forces which mould his brain, but also with all the shaping activity present in the whole bodily organization of the human being.”4
For the ancient Greeks it was Zeus who created the power of thinking and ruled supreme through the cosmic power of his thoughts. This tremendous creative power is illustrated in the ancient myth of Pallas Athena, his daughter who was said to be born springing fully-armed from his forehead as the incarnation of wisdom.
While the tin force moulds the body and gives the power of thinking above, it also works in the largest organ in the body below—the liver. From Plato’s Timeaus we read:
“Zeus formed everything. He shaped the conscious soul of Man, and the upper part of the human being, the head. But there was one part of Man’s soul which desired not only thoughts but also food. The gods placed this part in the region of the diaphragm…Although the lower element works in the liver, yet this organ can also be in contact with truth. Thus, within the liver, is the seat of prophecy, and so the Greek seers look upon the liver as a kind of oracle. This, the liver, is a lower province of the kingdom of Zeus. Its purpose is to create order and to cause a lower type of consciousness to prevail within the lower part of the human being.”
This organ, or gland, is a place of fluid organization and equilibrium, a complex chemical laboratory where substances are broken down and transformed as required, among other services providing the sugar necessary in the bloodstream for muscular movement.