Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/885/en

What passes away in autumn are forms that, through the cosmic-earthly interworking of substances and forces in the ascending year, have received their year-specific impress. Already in the wilting of the blossom, the etheric — the formative life — loosens itself from what has shaped itself astrally according to the essential image of the plant. In seed formation and humus formation this coherence arises anew, a laying-down of seed in the stream of time. What, however, releases itself from its bond to the life of the sense-perceptible physical world is supersensible; it interweaves itself with the autumnally in-raying light and warmth in such a way that these, by comparison with spring, appear to feeling much fuller, spiritually-soul-saturated, indeed in their essential nature more strongly differentiated from one another. This loosening, this separating that occurs in dying can be felt as a waking of spirits permeating all of nature. If one does not close oneself off to this outer dying-event, one can become aware of the death-overcoming force of one's own I-being. It releases forces of courage, a Michaelic fore-sensing and forward-looking thinking that is as open to the future and to development as, conversely, the plant is — which preserves and maintains its being in the reproductive stream from seed to seed.