Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/1249/en

The means for preparing the preparations are drawn from the mineral, plant, and animal kingdoms and exposed to the conditions of the physical world — the elements of earth, water, air, and warmth — and to the seasonal rhythms that come to efficacy within these. Anthroposophical spiritual research thus directs the gaze toward the *what* and *how* of the sense-perceptible world: toward the *what*, for example certain medicinal plants and animal organ sheaths; toward the *how*, for instance the exposure to the forces of summer above the earth in air and warmth, and to the forces of winter below the earth in the sphere of the watery-earthy. In this way, under the guidance of spiritual research, sense-perceptible nature itself becomes in the fullest measure the object of scientific questioning — for example: What indication does the dandelion (*Taraxacum officinalis*) give, in morphological and physiological terms, concerning its relationship to the potassium of the earth and to silica in its finest distribution in the periphery of the earth, and what are the particular characteristics and functions of the peritoneum of the cow that make this organ especially suited for the sheathing of the dandelion blossoms in the course of the preparation? It goes without saying that the scientific research approach meant here cannot be a quantifying one, but rather one that, by means of the perception of sense-perceptible facts, forms concepts capable of serving in ordinary cognition as a support for the understanding of supersensible intuitive beholding.