Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/1353/en

In this way the blossom mirrors the relationship of the cosmic to the earthly — in form and substance — in polar contrast to the seed germinating in the earth. The plant reveals its being in the fact that in the blossom it dies into form, and in the fact that simultaneously the substance-process, shaped by its being, flows into a kind of cosmic germinal state in the blossom. However complete and perfect the blossom may appear, it is at the same time open and germinal. This state of surrendering opening toward the cosmos lasts only a moment. Then comes, on the one hand, the inraying that leads to the formation of the individual seed, and on the other hand the plant form wilts from blossom downward and succumbs to humification — to the formation of humus as the "universal seed." How can this *status nascendi* of formal revelation and etheric substance kept in flux be preserved in the blossom? How can the achievement of plant formation in the blossom be carried beyond the iron threshold set by nature — passing, as it were, between seed formation and humus formation? How can duration be granted to the moment of the blossom?