Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/934/en

The incineration of seeds is carried out during the seed's dormancy — in that condition in which the cosmic element «lives as the form of the plant in the seed». When the seed is passed through fire, it is consumed entirely by the flames; what remains is the earthly portion — the ash. Fire as an element reveals itself on one side sense-perceptibly in the phenomena of warmth and light. The other side, the inwardly active side of fire, is supersensible. In human experience this supersensible can become perceptible as a phenomenon on the soul level — as when a spiritual impulse kindles the soul to the fire of enthusiasm. Wherever fire appears, it consumes what has become physical; that becomes ash. Spoken from the side of what is spiritually active: the ash bears witness to a process of purification — one that implants new impulses of becoming into existence.