Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/1291/en

Over the summer, under direct solar radiation, the substantive composition of the fodder growth intensifies. The grazing cow herd perceives this progressively in its digestion. In autumn this process of fodder ripening and its cosmic-qualitative analysis by the cow reaches its culmination. In observing and inwardly participating, we can bring this before us. From this grows an understanding of Rudolf Steiner's indication to collect, in autumn, cow dung from the pasture — dung that will be needed for the preparation to follow. In this cow manure we have before us a largely amorphous mass, a metabolic end-product that contains something which belongs in an essential way to the cow, because it has been permeated by her soul-nature but not claimed by it. In her excretion she performs, as it were, a renunciation. Left to itself, cattle manure would pass over into the general nature process of humus formation. Instead, we invert the normal course of natural events with what is now the first preparation step that follows (see figure 23, p. 347):