Translations:Manfred Klett: Von der Agrartechnologie zur Landbaukunst/1474/en

Now the task is to dry the flower heads collected in April sufficiently, to wrap them at once in the mesentery flaps of a cow of middle age — if possible from the farm's own herd — and to hang the tied, ball-like packet in the air, protected from birds. Through the summer half-year, until around Michaelmas, it remains thus exposed above the earth to the solar and planetary forces in warmth and air. These enter into reciprocal interaction with the earthly substances potassium and silica, which in the blossom have been lifted into the etheric condition. At this level of the etheric — so one may venture to assume — it is only then that the «relational nexus between potassium and silica» can arise, to which spiritual research points, bestowing upon the dandelion the capacity to draw in, as a «messenger from the heavens», the cosmic silica. May this stand as an attempt to make visible the living interconnection whereby the first

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