Translations:Manfred Klett: Von der Agrartechnologie zur Landbaukunst/1403/en

How can one follow this process in thought — the process that unfolds between plant sludge, the skull-bone sheath, and the bark of the oak over the winter half-year within the earthly? What follows is an attempt at interpretation. The question at issue is: how can the property of calcium — its capacity to draw together the forces of the etheric — be made serviceable? All too frequently, after a wet winter and spring followed by the sudden onset of a sun-rich warm period, damaging alien organisms such as aphids appear in masses, in colonies. They are a sign of etherically proliferating growth. The cosmic-astral forces are too weak to shape the excess of growth-force into form. Here the contracting force of calcium can help — not, however, ordinary calcium compounds bonded to the acid residue of carbonic acid (CaCO₃), but calcium possessing a «structure» of the kind present in the bark of the oak. This calcium oxalate, raised up by the life processes of the oak and secreted by it into the bark, must first be brought — by way of the preparation steps — to the point where, as an addition to organic manures, it holds the healthy equilibrium between the living context of soil and plant and the instreaming astral forces of the sub-solar planets Venus, Mercury, Moon. This can be achieved by generating a condition of chaotically proliferating ethericity. This condition is present in the plant sludge. It must be continuously maintained through the inflow of rain and snowwater. The atmospheric water contains oxygen, which ensures that the anaerobic processes of decomposition do not tip over into putrefaction. Polar to the wateriness of the plant sludge is the constitution of the inflowing rain and snowwater, permeated by cosmic forces. This water condenses in the wintry atmosphere from the gaseous form of the air into the droplet form, or crystallises into the snow crystal. In both states of matter the water has its own centre. The forces of the macrocosm enter into relationship with this centre, concentrate themselves in the water envelope and delimit it into droplet form or snow crystal. When these water droplets now unite into a homogeneous mass of water within the earthly, they surrender their own centre to the centre of the earth's midpoint.

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