Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/1566/en

as though it sought to lift its inflorescence, at the greatest possible distance from the rootstock, up into the sphere of warmth, light, and air. The stem determines the gesture of this plant: as its governing member it connects the earth-capable root-work with the inflorescence turned toward the cosmos; just as the roots branch downward, so the stem branches upward into the fine branchlets of the cyme. The living and supporting tissue of the stem encloses an air-filled tube; on the outside it is multiply furrowed. Here once again the polar doubleness of astral working shows itself — impressing the growth forces from without into form, building space from within, and, by virtue of the nitrogen in the enclosed air of the stem's tube, ordering, re-ordering, and upwardly refining the substances in the temporal unfolding of the life processes. The astrality that governs the entire valerian plant refines the substance-activity in the upward growing of the stem from one pair of leaves to the next. The stem, too, releases — already refined toward flower — the characteristic fragrance of valerian oil, in which the aromas of various essential oils come together into a unity.