Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/1281/en

In the organ-activity of the animal, the life that in the plant dies into form is held in streaming; the merely living substance of the plant becomes, in the animal, sentient substance. Is there, then — the question posed once more — a path by which the earthly substance enlivened through the plant can be raised across the gulf that exists between the plant kingdom and the animal kingdom, up into the domain of the soul's inward-drawing forces? That this gulf is not absolute is shown by the healing effects of certain plants upon diseased organs in human beings and animals — for instance the healing effect of chamomile with regard to intestinal disorders, and of yarrow in relation to the strengthening of the blood-purifying force in the kidney-bladder process. The healing effect rests in each case upon the manner in which specific earthly substances are enlivened by the life organisation of the medicinal plant in question. It is this specific enlivening of earthly substance-processes that Rudolf Steiner has in view when the task is to prepare a fertilising substance in which this substance-process can be kept durably in flux. The foregoing consideration shows that a path opens up toward this when it proves possible to bring into direct relationship the