Consider what forces must be present in order for our plant-world to arise in the form it does. How do the cosmic and earthly forces work on our plant kingdom?
It is through these ideal perceptions we have of the elements that we can penetrate the life processes of the plants … Without foregoing the view point of modern chemistry, we must add Aristotle's view on how the laws of form-expressions manifest in life otherwise this question might remain an unsolvable riddle.

Rudolf Steiner held the view that behind everything in the material world there is a spiritual force or being. Steiner developed a specialised language with which to describe his ideas, and his ideas and the techniques which have arisen from them are based on his spiritual experiences
Through his biodynamic agriculture practices, which utilise folklore, intuition, imagination and inspiration, as well as scientific research, we awaken ourselves and the spiritual nature beings.

The boy that lived in two worlds of experiences...

For Rudolf as a child the surrounding nature, which he loved, was alive with elemental beings. From an early age he was also able to follow the further journeys of those who had died. The world of nonphysical perception was more real to him than the one that spoke through his bodily senses, and he assumed that this was also true for others.

Annelies also said that the elementals mainly communicate with us through imagery She described Sylphs as being very wispy looking, with arms, wings, and a pleasant aura. No black or dark shades ever. Always snow-white cloud material. I have been aware of them for the last two years, but I was never really able to see what they looked like, I just knew they were filament like clouds, but for one year approximately, I have been able to recognise their faces or the content of their representations and it is really amazing. Many of the Sylphs in the sky are kind of metaphors; they can be seen in hundreds of different ways. I was totally amazed at the diversity there is; every conceivable and inconceivable type of living form are represented by them.

To me sylphs look like white balls of light, darting around the sky rapidly unless they are involved in a creation, in which case they will remain in place for a while. One must learn to distinguish between the sylphs and the communications balls that the mountains and clouds and so on use to communicate with one another. The key is in the emotional content of each, as usual. The sylph is itself a Being, while the the white communications balls are devices sent between one Being and another. Also, communication balls are usually slower moving than the observable activities of sylphs.
Language obviously isn't adequate to cover this subject and even the terminology we're using is arbitrary, at best.

Sylph - "spirit of the air"

Sylph' is derived from the latin root word for 'forest' for instance, and they live in the sky. Sylphs are a class of highly evolved Etheric beings who work with the "spirit of the air", a very great deva who manages the world's air, clouds, weather.....Sometimes they are depicted as cloud beings. If it happens that one day, you find a total whiteout in progress, ask: "Would you mind so very much doing me a favour?" Call on the Sylphs or whatever label you are comfortable with to blow it out, dissipate it.

People who are interested and have a capacity for exploring these things will hopefully now feel encouraged not to just write off their own similar experiences as 'just their imagination.'

The Platonic solid associated with air is the octahedron which is formed from eight equilateral triangles. In traditional cultures, air is often seen as a universal power or pure substance. Its fundamental importance to life can be seen in words such as aspire, conspire, inspire, perspire, and spirit, all derived from the Latin spirare ("to breathe")

Sylphs are obviously not typically visible to the untrained eye, but Sylphs do inhabit the same volume of space as the air. Their actual Being resides in the physical vacuum, as a coherent holographic form of energy. This holographic form is typical of many varieties of Consciousness, including the Consciousness of Human Beings. This statement is based on personal empirical researchers, who proved that memory and consciousness are not contiguous with the brain, or the physical form but rather that they exist in the form of a hologram. This holographic form is typical of many varieties of Consciousness, including the Consciousness of Human Beings.

An elemental is a mythological being

They first appeared in the alchemical works of Paracelsus. Like Rudorf Steiner, he claimed that Sylphs are immortal non-physical beings which have and are souls. Paracelsus was an alchemist, physician, astrologer, and general occultist. Born as Phillip von Hohenheim on 11 November or 17 December 1493 in Einsiedeln, Switzerland and died on 24 September 1541 in Salzburg, Austria) He later took up the name Philippus Theophrastus Aureolus Bombastus von Hohenheim, and still later took the title Paracelsus, meaning "equal to or greater than Celsus",

The basic concept of an elemental refers to the ancient idea of elements as fundamental building blocks of nature. In the system prevailing in the Classical world, there were four elements: fire, earth, air, and water. This paradigm was highly influential in Medieval natural philosophy, and Paracelsus evidently intended to draw a range of mythological beings into this paradigm by identifying them as belonging to one of these four elemental types.

Aristotle

Toward understanding the elementals, or nature spirits, we must differentiate between element and substance. In the work of Aristotle the substance of water is a perceivable object; the element water is an interaction of qualities, comprehensible only on a spiritual plane. When we study the elements, we enter into a living process, while with substances we are confronted with objects.

We can become familiar with this realm only by transcending our sense perceptions, which are dependent upon material manifestation. Aristotle, who understood the underlying spiritual process of the elements, observed how life works within these substances, as in water proceeding from the quality of moistness, and he presented the thesis that we must first study the four qualities: warm, cold, moist, and dry; and the four elements: earth, air, fire, and water, which originate from the interaction of the four qualities.

* Dryness permeated by cold forms the Earth element-the root realm.
* Cold permeated by moistness forms the Water element-the leaf realm.
* Moistness permeated by warm forms the Air element-the flower realm.
* Warmth permeated by dryness forms the Fire element-the seed/fruit realm.

The exact term for each type varies somewhat from source to source, though these four are now the most usual. Most of these beings are found in folklore as well as alchemy; their names are often used interchangeably with similar beings from folklore. The sylph, however, is rarely encountered outside of alchemical contexts.

Having done my home work, and as I write this article on nature spirits, I got carried away. Do we really understand, or can we grasp what it takes to understand the laws of Creation?

Alchemy, what do we know about it?

Alchemy , is both a philosophy and a practice with an aim of achieving ultimate wisdom as well as immortality. The practical aspect of alchemy generated the basics of modern inorganic chemistry, namely concerning procedures, equipment and the identification and use of many current substances. This practice involved self analysis for the improvement of the alchemist as well as the making of several substances that would possess unusual properties.

Internal alchemy, is like the more general alchemy from which it is derived, focuses on transmuting energies and substances. The practices focus on restoring balance and elevating spiritual vitality. The goals of internal alchemy are to improve health, longevity and peacefulness. Practitioners often seek immortality or reunion with God or another divine source.

Whether human physical immortality is an unachievable phenomenon or not, biological forms have inherent limitations — for example, their fragility and slow adaptability to changing environments, which may or may not be able to be overcome through medical interventions, engineering, etc. On the other hand, biological immortality already exists among some simple, but multi cellular life-forms.

Some scientists futurists and philosophers like Annelies, believe that human immortality is achievable in the next few decades. Others are somewhere in the middle between these two extreme viewpoints, thinking that immortality is achievable in some period of time longer than 20-30 years, but not impossible.

So, I close this article with a contemplation; The Sylph fairy lives for hundreds of years, yet never appears to age, and can take on human form for a time, if it wishes. It can move very quickly through the air. You may notice a movement just out of the corner of your eye, then just as fast they are gone! When I read Annelies' journal Vanishing Worlds I remembered why it was that it is my Soul purpose to work with the spiritual world in practical applications ( through landscaping and building communities around the globe) Its to help heal nature.

So to answer this article's question; How do the cosmic and earthly forces work on the plant?, my answer is amother question.

It is totally true that human beings are uplifted and inspired by our plant world. Where the inter-working of the downwards streaming forces of love and sacrifice, and the upwards streaming forces of density, gravity and magnetism meet, plant-life develops on the earths surface. Plant-life is the outer expression of world-love and world-sacrifice, with world-gravity and world-magnetism. This understanding of the plant world, which is necessary to the art of healing, has been lost to most of present day humanity.
Elementals are on the other side of the threshold. According to Steiner, we can perceive gnomes when we first fall asleep, sylphs when we are in deep sleep, undines just before awakening, and fire-spirits when we are in waking consciousness but can stand outside ourselves. It is then we see that our thoughts are not enclosed inside the skull, but revealed as world-thoughts.

Nature spirits are repulsed by materialistic thinking. They need wild places, bio diversity, our consciousness, our moral deeds, rituals of love and gratitude, artistic or creative ceremony. I recommend walking your land or in nature every day. Ask, "What does the land need to heal?"
Bio dynamics is alchemy, harmonizing the inner with the outer. Alchemy is the synergy of the interaction between humans and nature. Steiner said that through our consciousness and deeds, we can disenchant these beings so we can both evolve to the next stage.

They need us, as we need them.