Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/1599/en

It is striking that phosphorus, in finest distribution and strictest compositional order, permeates all kingdoms of nature and with them the physical organisation of the human being. If one restricts one's gaze to its physico-material mode of appearance, little is revealed about its being and its function in the household of nature. The picture changes when one widens the field of vision to include the plant kingdom and further upward still. There phosphorus, etherised into the phosphorus process, appears in metamorphoses wherever a tendency toward devitalisation prevails. This reveals itself to intuitive beholding immediately in the flowering process of plants, which is essentially a phosphorus working. Where this devitalisation reaches its culmination — in the wilting of the blossom and in seed formation — the phosphorus working comes especially to the fore.