Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/1172/en

Liquid Manure

Liquid manure and solid manure have, by reason of the physiological processes from which they arise, polar fertilizing qualities. As explained in the example of the cow (chapter "The Cow," p. 146 ff.), solid manure arises from the digestive system, in which the food taken in from outside — foreign to the body — is broken down step by step through the act of rumination, the activity of the rumen, the glandular stomach, the small and large intestines, and sifted in its passage through the mucous membrane walls. From there the mineralized digestive substances, stripped of their foreignness, pass into the venous bloodstream and onward into the liver. Urine, by contrast, is an excretion from the interior of the body and passes through the arterial bloodstream into the kidney, and from there through the bladder into the outer world. The kidney sifts the body's own substances and separates out those that have become unusable, in liquid form, as urine. An essential constituent of urine is urea, a breakdown product of protein metabolism. This nitrogen compound still carries the activity of the animals' soul body and life body. They carry outward with the urine forces of these two members of the human being — and it is these forces that fertilize. Different in the case of cattle dung: this consists of indigestible fodder residues, interspersed with spent mucous substances of the digestive organs and impregnated with the result of the "cosmic-qualitative analysis" (cf. chapter "Cosmic-Qualitative Analysis and I-Disposition," p. 156 f.). If the fertilizing forces of the urine stream outward from the cow's past-acting, moon-like astrality, then to these forces in cattle dung are added those that ray in presently from the sun. These are the forces that the cow in particular — out of its singular sense-relationship to the fodder, in the course of the "cosmic-qualitative analysis" from rumination through the digestive tract to the back-raying function of the horns as "I-disposition" — impresses into the manure.