Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/1373/en

The potassium that has congealed into this wrought determinacy now estranges itself from that determinacy — and through the particular sulphur content of the yarrow, in the flowering process, it is brought a first step closer to its cosmic being of origin. One can call this the stage of «efficacy», the stage of the efficacious living. In the field of tension with sulphur, potassium unfolds its efficacy within the living — working from the earthly pole into protein formation in the leaf zone. In the blossom, protein formation recedes almost entirely. It carries forward into the formation of seed. So in the blossom the potassium process is, as it were, released from its efficacy within the living. It refines itself into the state of the germinal — into what one can sense in image as the will-less opening gesture of the blossom. This state endures a moment, and already the germinal quality of this substance-process falls, with the dying-away of the plant, into mineralization, back into the state of the determinacy of physical properties. But at the moment of flowering, the preparation intervenes. Through the enveloping in the noble-game bladder and the further steps of the preparation, the potassium — which in the blossom has reached the highest stage of its transformation into the living — is detached from the bearer-plant and held in efficacy. This points to the fact that potassium, now in the current of its enlivening, becomes receptive to a higher sphere: to that of the revelation of its being. Through this, the earthly substance potassium is lifted not merely into the sphere of life, but into that of life bearing sentience. It becomes the bearer of a life permeated by inwardness.