Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/1562/en

The rootstock of valerian resembles a chemical kitchen within the living. Everything life-creating that is summed up in the *tria principia* of Paracelsus works here in the closest mutual engagement. In the language of spiritual science, it is the four kinds of ether — life ether and sound ether, light ether and warmth ether — that enliven the inorganic world of substances under the direction principally of the sound ether and life ether, the master-builders of the plant's physical organisation. The architect, however, who supplies the building plans, is the astral organisation working into time and space out of the supersensible. At a preliminary stage — one can say, still unrefined — the fullness of the substance-compositions concentrates in root and *rhizom*, which then, in progressive transformation, form the physically sense-perceptible gestalt of valerian. Even the sulphurous-imponderable element