Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/1278/en

in the preparation plants this capacity is present as a specific potency in each case. Enlivenment means here that the physically earthly substances are lifted up into the streaming life of the plant and thereby estranged from their physical properties. Potassium, for example, which in physical terms has sharply defined properties, now reveals a force that becomes visible and active through the "higher" living working of the plant — a force that the "lower" cannot bring to manifestation out of itself. When potassium becomes a living process in this way, other properties appear: the maintenance of sap pressure (turgor), the stabilisation of tissues — or, in the case of calcium, the new properties of cell division and cell elongation, of root growth and the building up of tissues. This liberation of substances from their bondage to purely physical properties advances in proportion as the supersensible life organisation of the plant sensuously expresses itself in the outer form — and in doing so, simultaneously dies into it. In the root zone, salt-like properties are still predominant. They lose themselves in the growth processes of the greening leaves and progressively through the leaf sequence from below toward the blossom. This hidden process, which first plays itself out in the sphere of the watery, expresses itself in ascending fashion through the spheres of air and warmth in the increasing formation of the leaves, in the elaboration of the blossom, and substantively in the formation of highly complex proteins, aromatic compounds, and scents. The properties that substances have taken on in the domain of the vegetative growth of the leaves thus lose themselves again as blossom formation is approached. In the blossom the archetypal image of the plant comes to light. There, within the sphere of warmth activity, the estrangement of substance from its physical properties — and with it the degree of its openness to the formative forces of the life organisation of the plant — reaches its culmination. The outer signature of this event is the radiant blossom, the dispersing pollen, and the streaming scents. Along the path of stepwise enlivenment and refinement, the earthly substance-process opens itself in the blossom to the workings of the cosmic periphery. This can disclose itself to intuitive beholding when one enters into the gesture of the blossom — willlessly upward-striving, turning toward the cosmos. This refinement of the saps — one may also speak in Goethe's sense of an upward clarification of the earth-sap, the ascending salt-and-water stream of the *xylem* — or, equally, the estrangement of the substance-stream