Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/1651/en

where this being acts, sulphur appears as substance. In this way, the first three preparations are those that further the incarnating of a spiritual principle (plant life). In the case of yarrow, it is potassium — which carries the fluid element entirely within itself, and which establishes the relationship to the etheric in particular (individual etheric body) — ; with chamomile, calcium draws the astral into the physical body that is permeated by the etheric body (it draws into itself, out of the cosmos, that which gives form to the plant); and with stinging nettle, finally, iron — which, in the case of human beings, has its close relationship to the incarnating of the I, and here, furthered by sulphur, leads the spiritual archetype of the plant into its physical appearance and maintains the "contact" with the primal plant in the sphere beyond the cosmos (the "permeation with reason"). With the first three preparations, the soil is developed in such a way that all four members of the human being that are connected with the physical appearing in the earthly are furthered for the plant.»