The organic vision of Hélan Jaworski

This book was also the result of a vision, for one day it suddently came to him that we were walking in the Earth, not on it. That the solid Earth was the nucleus of an enormous cell of which the atmosphere was the cytoplasm, the earth’s crust the nuclear membrane and the fiery centre the nucleus.

Working from this hypothesis, the Earth can also be taken as a living being—the mountains correspond to our skeleton; the lava, which comes to the surface in volcanoes and forms crusts or scabs, is the blood. The fiery centre of the Earth corresponds to the heart and man himself forms the brain of the living earth. This being is enclosed in the atmosphere, just as the foetus is enclosed in the foetal membranes. The moon corresponds to the placenta and was thrown off from the earth just as the placenta is thrown off from the developing embryo. We only see one side of the moon, just as the child in the womb only sees one side of the placenta.

Taking the whole conception one step further, Dr Jaworski maintained that one could consider the Earth as an organ of the living being of the Cosmos. Man is then a cell in the solar organism. ‘In every fashion he is the flesh of the infinite.’ Believing that the earth is a living being, to Dr Jaworski all things were living but express life in different time scales. He included in his philosophy the smallest cell and the farthest star.

At the time that he formulated his work, Dr Jaworski was unaware of historical antecedents to his views, nor was he then aware of the work of Rudolf Steiner. Dr Poppelbaum, working on the basis of Steiner’s impulses, has written extensively on the relationship of man and the animals and man’s position within the evolutionary, theory. Whilst the methods pursued by Dr Poppelbaum and Dr Jaworski are different, comparison of their work shows distinctive but complementary findings.

However, before he wrote his last book—The Geon—Dr Jaworski knew and had studied the works of the Nature Philosophers of the nineteenth century and in particular those of Lorenz Oken. He dedicated his book La découverte du Monde to Maurice Maeterlinck whom he calls his Master. Maeterlinck himself gives an appreciation of Jaworski in one of his books.

Dr Jaworski, himself, called his work ‘La philosophie vérifiable’,