Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/1584/en

The dissolving capacity of hydrogen — in the higher sense — makes itself felt morphologically when, toward the flower, the foliage vanishes as it were into the stem, and physiologically when the phase of protein formation is superseded by that of devitalization, of the formation of hydrogen-rich carbohydrates — fructose, essential oils, and the like. What is remarkable now is that valerian brings the fructifying tendency of the sulphuric to bear with great intensity precisely in its antipode — the root — and does so most strongly there. There, the fragrance remains dammed back within the bark. When one cuts into the root, it spreads a penetrating, dully earthy smell. In the flower, on the other hand — above all in wilting — it becomes earth-fleeting, smells more floral, and envelops the nearer surroundings in a cloud of scent. Expressed in image: the hydrogen process dissolves all formal determinacy of the substance compositions into the chaos of the cosmos's indistinguishability, into the primal state of warmth. Dominated by the stem principle, the substance-process of valerian — in formation as in dissolution, from above downward and back again — is powerfully charged through by strong astrality. This state of affairs, together with valerian's particular relationship to warmth, can awaken understanding for why the valerian blossom requires neither further preparation through an animal organ nor exposure to the forces of the cosmos and the earth across the course of the year. One would indeed hardly be able to find an animal organ appropriate to this plant. The essential nature of valerian is in this respect polar to that of the stinging nettle. Just as the nettle — by virtue of its "astral inward working" — creates for itself a sheath within which, along the path of the incarnating hydrogen process, new substances arise, so polar is the excarnating hydrogen process in the blossoms of valerian. This dissolves all formation into the primal state of warmth, whose intrinsic being to all existence