Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/1476/en

In contrast to silica, Rudolf Steiner describes calcium as that which wants to draw everything «towards itself». «What calcium wants, lives in the plant realm.» «The calcareous is the general outward desire within the earthly.» In this quality of «desire», the inorganically dead calcium lives itself forth in a purely natural way. Through the life processes of plants — and of the oak in particular — it is step by step released from this bondage to the earthly. Out of this enlivened condition it is excreted into the bark in a state that approximates the mineral, yet impresses upon the calcium oxalate embedded in the bark tissue — in its «structure» — the stamp of the oak's formative forces organisation. Can one not see in this the meaning of the three inversion steps of the preparation described above: that the «desire-nature» of the dead calcium is reversed into its opposite? In its configuration of forces it transforms into a condition in which it no longer wants anything for itself, but instead mediates to the plants forces through which they can defend themselves against the disease-causing and damaging influences coming from without. The calcium in the lime is raised — through the processual steps of the preparation — out of its evolutively fixed states; from a taker it becomes a giver, a healer in the life of plants.