Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/1361/en

In the second step of the preparation, what was laid down through the inversion in the first step begins to fulfil itself (Figure 26, II, p. 363). The stag bladder with its blossom contents is hung "in a place exposed as much as possible to the sun." There it is exposed to the forces of the physical body of the earth in the elements of air and warmth, and to what works as essential being along the vertical axis of earth-centre and sun. We may assume that it is now the substantial constitution of the bladder — that which came to it from the cosmic experience of the stag — through which the membrane of the bladder becomes receptively sense-active toward the physical working of forces surrounding it in space. This force-signature of the sun-permeated space in air and warmth, mediated through the substance of the bladder, communicates itself to the enclosed blossom-substance. And it is the form-sheath of the bladder through which what has been taken in is held fast and preserved in the yarrow blossoms. Through the inversion processes of this first and second preparation step, the working of the periphery imprints itself upon the potassium working — raised into the etheric — in the yarrow blossoms. It holds, so one may understand it, the etherised potassium process in flow and transforms it, through the higher forces of the astral, into a "formative force."