Translations:Manfred Klett: Von der Agrartechnologie zur Landbaukunst/1377/en

The outer bark remains firmly joined to the inner bark. The process that completes itself in the outer bark can be compared with the fertilising effect of compost: it communicates to the soil something that "has the tendency to interpenetrate the astral with the earthy very powerfully, without the detour through the etheric." This process completes itself at its highest level in the blossom. Under the overwhelming force of the sulphurisation process — which is one and the same as the astral working — the blossom opens, revealing its being in image, and in the very same moment dies into that image of form and colour. In the blossom there is accomplished a complete transformation of the physical, of earthly substance. In the outer bark there is likewise accomplished a kind of flowering process, but one that remains, on a lower level, stopped halfway. What comes about is not a transformation of substance, but a sulphurous-astral preservation of the organo-mineral substance-composition that has fallen out of the life of the inner bark, impressed into a particular organic "structure."