Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/1585/en

Sheath and substance at once. Valerian lives forth an "astral outward working" that, in its outstreaming, acts sheath-forming. To this Gunter Gebhard adds: "In the stinging nettle it is sulphur and iron that become active. Both have an inward-centred quality. The nettle, 'permeating with reason,' shows a relationship to the microcosmic — the I-quality of reason. The earthly comes to expression in a quite particular way also in the rhizomes of the nettle. In the blossom of valerian, the substance-process dissolves into the cosmos; it strives toward cosmic light. Entirely so are also the roots of valerian, which — like light — ray themselves into the earth in straight lines, for long stretches without branching and with almost no secondary thickening. In the blossom the hydrogen working, in the root the light quality, which shows itself in phosphorus. In contrast to the nettle, which stands in relationship to the microcosmic I, valerian shows a relationship to the macrocosmic I."