Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/1407/en

laden with the stream of experience of deeds accomplished, reaches the centre as venous bloodstream. There a synthesis takes place, a heart-feeling rising from the unconscious up into consciousness. The venous blood transforms and renews itself in the heart — through the breathing of the lungs — into the arterial bloodstream, which streaming outward gives impulse to new activity. So too on the level of the plant: the stinging nettle "blossoms" from its centre, the leaf, out to the periphery of the whole plant. The earth-bound substances — potassium, calcium and iron — undergo their "upward purification," their etherization, not first in the final state of blossoming-forth, of dying into form, but rather the astral forces work through the sulphur in such a way that they impress the flowering process upon the whole activity of growth and hold it in flow. Through this the stinging nettle fulfils "its magnificent inward working," which makes it "similar to what the heart is in the human organism."