Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/1223/en

In the rocks, the element of the «earthy-solid» manifests itself. They have become the 'Work' of crystals out of a primordial metabolism-like life-activity in the development of the Earth. Only through the processes of weathering, the dissolution of crystalline forms, can the substances be raised again into the processes of living nature. As such they have no fertilising value. The plants reproduce themselves not only through the seed, but at the same time through the residues of the «universal plant-nature», which set metabolic processes in motion in the soil. Past life transforms itself into the «universal seed» humus, which fertilises future life. The animals, finally, fertilise out of the forces of their enlivened and ensouled nature. This reveals itself outwardly in the seemingly inexhaustible variety of their activities of being, and inwardly in the activity of the digestion and preparation of an enlivened and ensouled manure.