Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/1408/en

Therein lies, no doubt, the reason why Rudolf Steiner names no animal organ for the stinging nettle in order to ensure that the etheric is held in flow beyond the blossoming. The organ that would come into question for this is the heart. But the heart is no skin organ — it is a muscular, self-active organ. In it, metabolic process and sense process unite in the rhythm of the pulse-beat; they become one. The heart embodies the synthesis arising from the polarity of both processes. It is active inner-being and organ sheath in one. The stinging nettle fulfils an analogous function on the level of merely enlivened nature. Its thoroughly astralized body of formative forces enables it to transform the force-nature of the earthly substances potassium, calcium and iron — bound fast into the earthy-solid — upward into healing radiations that bring order to the living.