Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/814/en

Bearership and Preservation of the Cosmic Formative Forces in the Course of the Year

The formative forces raying in during winter work through the material substance of the earth — and the more powerfully, the more severe the winter. Towards these crystal-forming, structural-purity-creating formative forces, the physical-mineral nature — represented by silica (quartz, silicates), lime (base-rich rocks) and clay — stands in differing relation. Quartz-silica, in the temperate and polar-adjacent zones, is nearly resistant to weathering. It repels the form-dissolving force of water; lime draws it in. Rock crystal (silica) is by nature "crystallically pure"; lime develops an intrinsic dynamic of breakdown and buildup; it appears in manifold forms, across the whole span from rhombohedrally crystallising calcite in its purity to water-bearing sinter lime. Silica and lime form polar opposites in the soil and in the world of rocks. Lime has a high affinity to water. Just as it "greedily" receives the formative forces of the starry heavens, so too does it receive the formative forces working through the element of water — the forming forces of the near-solar planetary periphery, radiating from Mercury, Venus, and above all the Moon. The latter is the case in spring, in connection with the life that is then unfolding. In winter, by contrast, lime greedily absorbs the fixed-star forces, while the inwardly resting, crystallically pure silica reflects them back. "Lime lays claim to everything; silica claims, in truth, nothing at all any more [...] Silica is the general outer sense in the earthly realm, lime is the general outer desire in the earthly realm, and clay mediates between the two." Clay stands in relation to the