Attitude
In the anthroposophical approach to phenomenology, warmth ether is characterised by impulse-creating and directional activity. Warmth as an ether was already discussed in the section on the mode of observation that corresponds to warmth as an element, described on the page on warmth as a way of finding the core, and it is one of the four ethers.
In this view, the elemental quality of warmth is reflected in the process of building up images and then making them disappear again. This is a process that the observer controls, and in which the past, that which is already known, passes through the mind.
The etheric quality of warmth is reflected in the appearance of the symbolic image and the orientation it expresses. This process cannot be controlled: the observer opens up inwardly and waits to see whether something will appear. The expression of the symbolic image reveals the potential options; it contains the future. The number of these options is later reduced again, as more is learned about the object's environment through the other 'contexts'.