Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/1352/en

passes completely into earthly appearance. In its form we recognise yarrow unmistakably: in the sturdiness of its stem, in the dissolution of the leaf blade into an ordered manifold of spear-like dividing pinnations, and in the flower umbels that radiate forth in white and rose, where the dry, densely concentrated individual florets of the composite gather on the gently arching receptacle. The other — the substance, which in the soil appears as potassium with its precisely graspable physical properties — disappears into the organic process, impressing certain qualities upon it, and then, rising from leaf to leaf, drawing near to the cosmos in the blossom, passes over into a kind of germinal state. Look upon the inflorescence of yarrow: one sees a high degree of earthly-physical formal differentiation, and simultaneously this gesture of opening itself so willlessly to the cosmos. Above all this delicate, devoted gesture — but also colour, fragrance, and taste — may stand as indication that in the blossom the substance-process approaches cosmic conditions in an etheric refinement.