Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/861/en

The soul or astral organisation into the preserving life of the newly forming clay-humus complexes — a process that occurs predominantly in the summer-autumn period. This substance-renewal in the household of nature prompts the following questions: Are the earthworms in their digestive tract able to work over, in an even more earth-bound manner, those formative forces that ray in from the «remotest cosmos» by way of silica, lime and clay, than the plants that are forming themselves into their gestalt? Are it these formative forces that unite the polar earthly substances — crystalline clay and the residues of the universal-plant — into a higher unity, the clay-humus? And is it this union of mineral and plant substances through the ensouled activity of the earthworms that creates what is commonly called topsoil? This particular capacity of the earthworm certainly holds in graduated measure for other worm species as well, and for animals that live in the soil during their larval stage (Figure 13, p. 222).