Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/1316/en

The stirring process lasts one hour. Is this measure of time chosen arbitrarily — to ensure, for example, that the efficacy of the preparation has united itself with the water — or where does its meaning lie? The answer cannot be sought in the course of nature, but must be sought in cosmic rhythms that are being-effectively at work within the human being and have preserved their origin in him. Macrocosmically it is the twenty-four-hour day-night rhythm. In this Earth-Sun rhythm the I, the spirit-soul of the human being, lives in the states of sleeping and waking. Through the I-organisation of the nerve-sense system, the rhythmic system, and the metabolic-movement system, it individualises the macrocosmic rhythms and impresses them into the physical body — for example as the rhythms of breathing and of the heartbeat. The wavelengths of these rhythms move in the range of seconds and minutes. In the nerve-sense processes the frequencies shorten to fractions of a second, while at their counterpole — the activities of metabolism — they expand to the measure of the hour or of hours. In the metabolic-limb pole, however, lives the will, whose activation and deactivation unfolds within the span of the hour — hence, for example, the «lesson-hour». This, together with self-experience, justifies the certainty that the time-measure of the one-hour stirring is related to the will-rhythm of the metabolic-movement human being. It is he, after all, who sets the stirring process in motion and sustains it.