Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/1280/en

In its organic processes the life organisation of the plant keeps in flux the lifeless substance taken up from its surroundings: "The lifeless transforms itself into the living." But this living thing dies into the form of the plant's organs — into the leaf, into the blossom, for instance. The question arises whether the stream of substance that has been kept in flux all the way into the blossom — there spent, yet open to the cosmos — can be preserved, indeed quickened anew at a higher level. One may assume that this was Rudolf Steiner's point of departure in his search for fertilising substances capable of "enlivening the earthy, solid element itself." The answer from spiritual research could only have been: to lift the earthly substance-stream, enlivened through the plant, into a sphere proper to the higher nature of the animal. For in the animal the living substance is held in flux through its astral organisation, which forms the organs into the streaming life.