Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/1123/en

If one reaches into a compost heap that stands at the beginning of the earthing phase, one holds in one's hands a dark brown to blackish substance that still contains the last root, stem and leaf remnants occupied by microbes, and is frequently penetrated in clump-like fashion by a large mass of the compost worms just mentioned. The worms and other small creatures die off as soon as even the last remnant of organic residues has been digested and — in endogenous symbiosis with the intestinal bacteria — becomes casting. This casting, as an etherically enlivened substance, is as it were impregnated with astral forces which the digestive mass has absorbed in its passage through the animal digestive tract. On the one hand these bring about the transformation of nutritive humus into stable humus and bridle the decomposing activity of the microbes, or even redirect it toward a building-up one. On the other hand it is the astral forces mediated by the animal that make possible the union with clay minerals for the formation of clay-humus complexes. One can speak, in this final phase, with full justification of an astralization, an ensoulment of the earthen mound. Everything forms and individualizes itself organism-like into a unified whole.