Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/1637/en

When moon forces now predominate through sustained wetness, the cultivated soil is permeated one-sidedly by a moon-like vitality. This arouses precisely the lower plant and animal life of these earlier stages of evolution — and so in particular measure the growth of fungi. This happens not only in the soil, but a storey higher as well, in and upon the above-ground organs of the plant. What has its rightful place in the darkness of the soil creates for itself, unlawfully, a second soil in the air-space above the earth; the microbial life parasitises the living tissues of the plant. Even the presently working sun-forces can only partially check this proliferating alien life. One must seek a plant that can concentrate and work through so much sun-force that it renders the excess moon-life in the watery element harmless — indeed, in the sense of a synthesis, that can bring about a healthy relationship between the polarities of the moon-astrality working from out of the past and the sun-astrality raying in from the present cosmos. This capacity belongs to the horsetail as the outstanding representative of the transition from a water-born to an earth-born plant. As a tea-infused liquid manure it works in such a way that one relieves the earth of the excess moon-force, so that the horsetail tea «withdraws from the water its mediating force and gives the earth more earthiness, so that it does not absorb the greater moon-influence through the water present». This description points unambiguously to the preventive treatment of soils with the horsetail preparation. Living-along with the course of weather through the course of the year trains the consciousness to act with wise foresight. When the prophylaxis is carried out regularly from year to year, one forestalls the acute case. Nevertheless many experiences are described, above all