Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/1126/en

in the supersensible. In the compost heap, the life ether is the builder of life for a great manifold of living beings. This life is at the same time meaning-filled. When this meaning-filled element dies into form, the life ether is freed to compose substances once again into a living context — at the end, into humus. This humus becomes, on one side, on the basis of the oxygen within it, a preserver of life; on the other side, humus contains nitrogen, which — like oxygen and others — is woven into a variant-rich substance-composition resembling protein. Substantively, nitrogen forms the bridge to the astral-essential, to that which gives meaning. From this it may be concluded that in humus the life ether is the actual formative force, in whose service its three elder kindred — the warmth, light, and sound ethers — stand. And does it not become the actual formative force precisely because, through the mediation of nitrogen, it has the capacity to bring the astral into relationship with the etheric and the physical? Does not compost — stable humus — thereby become the most elemental fertilizer of an enduring soil-born fertility? And does not this life ether, having thus become formative force, lend to the living context of "soil and plant" the power to form itself into wholeness, to individualize itself, and to become the faithful image of its being, rooted in the supersensible? Wherever we recognize in the living realm mutually interpenetrating, meaning-filled or wisdom-filled interconnections, we are following the traces of the life ether.