Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/1120/en

With the third, the moist-watery, stage, the chemical or sound ether becomes active above all. The etheric kinds stand in functional contrast to the elements with which they are evolutively of equal origin. While in the watery stage the heap assumes a more dense, homogeneous consistency, the sound or chemical ether shatters the life of the heap into a countless multiplicity of individual cells — yet not at random, but in a continually changing order. It divides and joins into ever new variations. The essential thing is not the individual bacteria, protozoa, algae, fungi, worms, larvae and so on, but what plays itself out between them: the interval. Brought into an image, one can compare the processual activity in the compost heap with a symphony. In a symphony, the tones and the intervals that separate the tones from one another and at the same time connect them generate rhythm, melody and harmony. A symphony has as a rule four movements, each one has its theme, which sounds forth in a streaming movement of tones, repeats itself and varies. In the same sense the sound ether or chemical ether works in the compost heap — not in the air element of tones, but in the moist earth element of substances. In the latter it is the bearer of all rhythms, repetitions and metamorphoses up to the end-point where the ripened humus appears. Thus one can regard humus, in the variations of its numerical compositions of carbon (C), oxygen (O), nitrogen (N), hydrogen (H) and sulphur (S), as it were as an earthly mirror of spherical harmonies.