Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/821/en

Viewed under this aspect, the crystalline nature of the clay minerals — together with the substances bound to them through sub-physical, earthly forces — is exposed, during the winter season, to the force-radiations of a supra-physical, cosmic nature that work in the organic realm as life-bearing and life-shaping. One may therefore understand Rudolf Steiner's indications concerning clay as meaning that clay preserves these formative forces and transmits them to the roots in the following growing period. They stream upward, shaping the plant form into the image of its type and composing the substances in the fruits as bearers of nourishing quality.