Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/864/en

Colour-tones work their way inward, as ripening advances, into mostly other, less intensive shades. What envelops the plant as a purely living being only from without — the higher force-working of the soul-astral, touching it gently as cloud-light — penetrates in the ripening fruit more deeply into it. The healing action of medicinal herbs rests on this very process, and in certain specially constituted wild plants, for example the deadly nightshade, Atropa belladonna, it can extend as far as lethal poison-formation. In the case of food plants, human beings succeeded in the early period of plant cultivation, before the third pre-Christian millennium, in ennobling this astralisation-process — penetrating ever more deeply into the life of the plant — toward nourishing quality.