Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/1355/en

of the astral body." The flowering process of yarrow, in its use as a healing agent, extends itself into the higher realm of the warm-blooded animal and into the realm of the human being, and there, beyond its outer field of appearance, it unfolds a beneficently healing working. The spiritual researcher draws attention to this relationship of yarrow to something that, as a soul and spiritual reality, lies beyond the threshold of its appearance. But this still gives no answer to the question of how the form-and-substance process of the blossom as such is to be preserved. To achieve this, Rudolf Steiner turns his researching gaze toward the animal kingdom, which in its world of organs grants duration to the moment through soul-force bound within the body. The animal organism encloses an inner world that in the flowering plant appears, as in a mirror-image, turned outward. From the level of animality the spiritual researcher turns his gaze back to yarrow, with the question of which organ-process can preserve "what is in the yarrow." This power belongs to the "process that takes place between the kidney and the bladder, and this process is in turn dependent on the substantial constitution of the bladder." These conditions are met in the bladder of the male — that is, the antler-bearing — noble game. The bladder of the stag is used as a rule.