Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/1368/en

In the second and third steps of the preparation, the yarrow mass is embedded vertically, in spatial relation, into the physical body of the earth, and horizontally, in relation to the course of time, to the rhythmic recurrence of arising and passing away, into the etheric and astral body of the earth. The latter differentiate themselves into a multiplicity of beings that bring about the phenomena of the course of the year and the rhythmic succession of the seasons. Winter and summer stand over against each other in polar opposition, and the transitions of spring and autumn. For any given place on earth, it cannot be winter and summer simultaneously — they follow one upon another in the stream of time. In the exposure of the yarrow spheres to the processes of the summer half-year in air and warmth, and thereafter to those of the winter half-year in water and earth, the germinal element of the blossom substance has had impressed upon it — mediated and preserved through the deer bladder — a whole course of the year. Within the blossom content, all the qualities of temporal succession through the course of the year interpenetrate one another in simultaneity. The summer half-year, preserving itself, interpenetrates the winter half-year, and conversely. In the yarrow thus prepared, the peripheral working of a whole course of the year condenses to a point in simultaneity — and thereby to a potency of new possibilities of development.