Translations:Manfred Klett: Von der Agrartechnologie zur Landbaukunst/1301/en

itself from the potassium of this congealed-into-work determinacy and is — through the particular sulphur content of the yarrow in the flowering process — brought a first step closer to its cosmic being of origin. One can call this the stage of "efficacy," the stage of the efficacious living. In the field of tension with sulphur, potassium unfolds its efficacy within the living — which, proceeding from the earthly pole, leads into protein formation in the leaf domain. In the blossom, protein formation retreats almost entirely. It continues on into seed formation. So in the blossom the potassium process is, as it were, released from its efficacy within the living. It refines itself into the state of the germinal — into what one can feel in imagination as the gesture of the blossom opening itself without will. This state endures for a moment, and already the germinal of this substance-process, with the dying-away of the plant, falls into mineralization, back into the state of the determinacy of physical properties. But at the moment of flowering the preparation intervenes. Through the envelopment in the noble game bladder and the further steps of the preparation, the potassium — which in the blossom has reached the highest stage of its transformation into the living — is detached from the carrier plant and held in efficacy. This indicates that potassium now, in the stream of its enlivening, becomes receptive to a higher sphere — to that of the revelation of its being. Through this, potassium as an earthly substance is raised not only into the sphere of life, but into that of life bearing sentience. It becomes the bearer of a life pervaded by inwardness.