Science.

Maybe in a few hundred years science will find what i’m telling you now. Maybe science will prove me wrong, I don’t know.
What is now seen as genetic information is only a veil for what is behind it. Genes by themselves need an energy that will unfold their information. This energy has been known throughout history as aether, but by the time science discovers its existence it will probably not call it that. Aether on its own is a cancerous force, for without certain restraints it will render cells that are gigantic in proportion. It is also the reason that experimenting with genetic alterations in many cases will lead to cancer.

Religion.

In our history there was only one man capable of controlling the aether. he healed through it and he appeared in it after death. Such is believed about the Christ being. His reappearance will not be in the flesh but in the aether. Mankind that does not develop its aetheric vision, will therefor not be able to witness his return (Anthroposofy).

Philosophy.

Now there are 5 aethers and you’ll find them drawing a pentagram (man in the heavens). The 5 aethers are the four elements in there rightful meaning, and one that is called “thought – aether”.
We can imagine the aether as the force that shapes a full grown plant from a tiny seed. The closest present day thinkers can come is by thinking through the concept of Rupert Sheldrake, of the bioenergetic or dynamic forcefield. For a long time however this will remain an empty thought for it has no connection with the spiritual reality from where life forces emerge. The aether is also the framework of Akasha, or cosmic memory. Maybe the genetics of life itself.