Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/1411/en

One digs a pit not too deep into the fertile living topsoil, lays the mass within it, surrounds it with a little peat mulch, and covers it over again with earth. In this place it remains a whole year, exposed there to both the winter forces and the summer forces in turn. After a year one digs out the mass — shrunk considerably through decomposition and advanced humification — and holds in one's hands the finished preparation, a new, an astrally radiating materiality. The practical handling requires great attentiveness with regard to the right state of wilting; direct sunlight should also be avoided during the wilting. When the nettle mass is still too moist, unwelcome fermentation faults arise easily, and under too-strong light-exposure it turns black. It must be dried down in the shade,