Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/1168/en

In the composting of farmyard manure the same processes run their course as those described for plant compost. In its fully ripened, refined form a stable humus of a particular kind is built up. Its force-constellation preserves the astrality of the domestic animals carried in the manure. It is their soul forces that lend the manure its extraordinary long-term efficacy. This holds in especial measure for compost from pure cattle dung, or from cattle dung mixed in part with other dung. It mediates to the life of the plant forces that reach beyond the astral-soul realm — forces spoken of in the chapter "The Cow" as "I-disposition." This designation points to a nexus of forces of a higher order, one that not only makes the cultivated plants the image of their supersensible being, but creates within them the disposition for that being to enter into relationship again with what, in past evolution, congealed out of it in space and time as accomplished work — namely, the plant form as it steps into appearance — and to inaugurate new possibilities of development. It becomes clear from this that true manuring from enlivened and ensouled nature has, and must have, a breeding value, a value for the development of cultivated plants.