Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/931/en

Auf Lehm anders als auf Sand, und wieder anders auf Böden verschiedener Säuregrade. So finden sich von den für Mitteleuropa beschriebenen 292 Arten der Begleitflora standortbezogen immer charakteristische, mehr oder weniger artenreiche Vergesellschaftungen von Un- oder Beikräutern und Ungräsern. Into this annually recurring intermixing of a wild flora with the cultivated plants, the farmer and gardener intervenes. He seeks to minimise the extent of weed and weed-grass infestation through manifold labour-intensive measures. The most costly and arduous of these is the use of the hand hoe and hand-weeding. What a relief, then, when in the 1960s synthetic herbicides arrived. Since then there are those with broad-spectrum action and numerous others directed selectively at the destruction of particular problem weeds and weed-grasses. In the wake of the genetic genome modifications of the target plants to be cultivated, total herbicides were added — such as "Roundup Ready", which with its active substance *glyphosate* has begun its triumphal march across the world. Herbicides are inventions of the human spirit. They are there to kill life, to destroy it. They intervene systemically in the nexus of life processes and steer them into nothingness. The etheric formative forces that constitute the life organisation of the plants lose their dominion over the organisation of the physical body. In the place of the astral forces — those that, through the in-rayings of the cosmic peripheral forces, and those that rise up from the earth, shape and configure the outward appearance of the plant — step forces that tear the threads between the essential archetype and the sense-perceptible physical form of appearance. These are life-hostile astral forces from sub-nature, from the sub-physical, which become operative at the level of the physical through synthetic substance-compositions. Herbicides, like the sum of pesticides and other synthetic plant-treatment agents, are creations of the human being assembled along purely reductionist paths of thought. They are bearer-substances of life-hostile forces that stand in isolation within the world-context. The procedure of arbitrary substance synthesis corresponds, in reverse, to that technology which forces the sub-physical forces bound within matter up into the light of day by means of so-called nuclear fission — both with consequences that are, in terms of (spiritual) evolution, unforeseeable.