Translations:Manfred Klett: Von der Agrartechnologie zur Landbaukunst/1405/en

Into this environment of formlessly chaotic plant sludge and the rain or snowwater streaming over it, the domestic animal skulls filled with oak bark in the cranial cavity are submerged. Continuously the uniting etheric forces stream around the skull and penetrate the bony skull-cap. This displays a calcium structure shaped by the higher astral forces of the domestic animals standing in the service of the human being. From the heart — which stands in relationship to the Sun — the forces of the supra-solar planets, Mars and Jupiter, work within the animal toward the head, while in the head itself the form- and structure-building forces of Saturn dominate. That is to say: the etheric forces chaotised in the plant sludge, brought into a kind of equilibrium by the rainwater, are transformed in their passage through the skull-cap — by the less instinct-bound astral forces of the domestic animals — into formative forces. The calcium of the skull-cap, structured by the astral body of the domestic animals, draws the etheric forces together and endows them with an upbuilding, ordering power of efficacy. In the bark, prepared in this way by the oak, the calcium is present on the one hand in such a substance composition that it becomes receptive to the etheric streams of the plant sludge, transformed into formative forces and mediated through the domestic animal skull. On the other hand, it lies in the nature of calcium to concentrate and preserve these received formative forces within the working-context of the oak's bark.