Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/1582/en

The flower substances are, for the most part, highly complex compositions of carbon and hydrogen. Oxygen — which leads toward the earthly — recedes entirely. The substances are therefore highly combustible, leaving behind no ponderable ash: the carbon transforms itself into the gaseous state of carbon dioxide. The phenomenon of combustibility points to the fact that hydrogen is the bearer of the element of warmth — or rather of its supersensible correlate, the warmth ether. The chemist Rudolf Hauschka (1891–1969) draws attention to this: "If one were to baptize hydrogen according to its inner character, it would have to be called fire-substance." Rudolf Steiner characterizes hydrogen as that "material thing which stands so near to the spiritual on one side, so near to the material on the other side." "It carries everything that is in any way formed, living, astral — carries it back up again into the widths of the cosmos." "Hydrogen actually dissolves everything." In a workers' lecture Rudolf Steiner speaks of the supersensible being of hydrogen: "Certainly, in chemistry