Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/1544/en

A new substance-composition comes into being within the living — a manure that sees to it, in still more intimate fashion, that the supersensible-astral organisation of cultivated plants imprints itself upon their etheric and, through this, upon their physical organisation. The plants become more capable of sense-perception and thereby more sensitive to the substances they need for their growth: "if the plant is in this way, in the finest way, permeated and lived through by silica, then it becomes sensitive to everything and draws everything toward it." It is further indicated that this periphery evidently does not refer only to the rooted soil-space of the individual plant, but extends into the neighbouring field, forest and adjoining meadow. This at first enigmatic statement can, in the light of present-day scientific knowledge, well be interpreted through the phenomenon of the symbiosis of plant roots with soil fungi (*Mycorrhiza*), whose mycelia — a network of cellular threads (*hyphae*) — link the root systems of plants with one another across considerable distances. The hyphae supply the plants with water (forest trees) and above all with mineral substances, while for their part benefiting from the plants' energy household. The phenomenon of mutually promoting cohabitation (*symbiosis*) of higher-developed organisms with lower ones can well be understood in the