Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/1303/en

In contrast to manure as a metabolic product of summer, crystalline quartz is a representative of the earth's winter activity: "silica" (quartz, rock crystal) is the "outer sense organ within the earthly." It resists most strongly the forces of weathering. In the first step we emancipate the quartz from its natural crystalline being: we shatter its crystalline structure, grind it as fine as dust, render it amorphous. We then work the quartz meal with a little water into a paste and fill it into cow horns. In this first step of preparation an inversion again takes place: an outer becomes an inner (Figure 24). And the same occurs in the second step, a second stage of emancipation. The quartz, standing close to the winter forces, becomes a summer substance when the filled horns are buried in spring and rest there in the earth throughout summer. The quartz, brought into an approximation of the amorphous state, now becomes a receptive matrix for the metabolic forces of warmth and air predominating in summertime. Caught and reflected back by the inner hollow of the cow horn, these concentrate themselves in the quartz meal made receptive for them. It is thus placed in a position to hold fast and preserve the forces of summer working — just as horn manure holds the forces of winter working.