Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/1557/en

The outward appearance of the stinging nettle gives the impression that in its life organisation it is above all the chemical or sound ether and the life ether that are at work. These become formative forces through a higher elementally astral spirituality, and through this are in a position to bring about the particular substance-composition of this medicinal plant. It becomes the image of this inwardly directed compositional surplus-force of the astral. This shapes, on the one side, the substance-compounds strictly out to the periphery — such as the urticin in the stinging hairs — while on the other side a potential of withheld astral forces remains, which through the path of preparation have the capacity to set earthly material substances flowing again, to enliven and transform them.