Earthly matter is spun in the pattern of light rays, and when you come across a chrysalis you are really seeing pure sunlight, spun around this earthly matter in the pattern of the sunbeam.
We have now reached the point where spun light surrounds the chrysalis, and naturally, something different occurs from what does in the case of the insect which burns by plunging into the flame and so can accomplish nothing further.
In the short time, the insect takes to hurl itself into the flame, could it but spin such a cacoon modeled on light, a new animal would arise from the fire.
Rudolph Steiner 1923 on butterflies
https://coe-llc.com/2021/02/13/chrysalis-births-the-butterfly/
We have now reached the point where spun light surrounds the chrysalis, and naturally, something different occurs from what does in the case of the insect which burns by plunging into the flame and so can accomplish nothing further.
In the short time, the insect takes to hurl itself into the flame, could it but spin such a cacoon modeled on light, a new animal would arise from the fire.
Rudolph Steiner 1923 on butterflies
https://coe-llc.com/2021/02/13/chrysalis-births-the-butterfly/