Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/1533/en

The second step of the preparation has come to receive wider practical attention only since the publication, with the fifth edition of the Agriculture Course (Dornach 1975), of Rudolf Steiner's notes to the course lectures. In these he writes concerning the dandelion preparation: "Hang the mesentery in the air." In the fifth lecture of the course this is not mentioned in these words; instead, immediate reference is made to the third step: "It must then of course be exposed [the dandelion blossoms enclosed in the mesentery; editor's note] to the influence of the earth, to the influence of the earth in wintertime." And so it was widely practised in the following decades. Yet the question remained ever open — whether this means that the second step is omitted, or how the immediately following sentence is to be understood: "But now what matters is that one gain the surrounding forces by treating it in the same way as the other." The riddle resolves itself with the above quotation from the notes: "hang in the air." It interprets "the surrounding forces" — those that are active during summer in the air and warmth above the earth. The remark that "one treats it in the same way as the other" must therefore be understood in the same sense as in the case of the yarrow preparation, where the exposure of the preparation to the summer and winter forces was described in detail.