Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/818/en

The physicist and chemist delimits substances from one another according to their properties. These properties are traced back to a force-potential — electricity, magnetism, nuclear force — which, however, characterises only the physical, earth-bound side of substances. Rudolf Steiner is fully aware of this side in his spiritual research, but opens up alongside it the other side — the cosmic side of substances — through which alone their being, active in the physical, is disclosed. The physically force-endowed constitution of a substance-element — or of a composition of such, as the clay mineral is — proves to be a point of reference, mediator and bearer of the forces radiating specifically from the cosmos: such as the formative forces of the sphere of the fixed stars, or those of the life-bestowing etheric formative forces.