Translations:Manfred Klett: Von der Agrartechnologie zur Landbaukunst/873/en

The question arises whether plants can fall ill in the same sense as animals and human beings. A direction towards an answer opens up when one considers the constitution of the members of being in the kingdoms of nature and in the human being: The mineral is one-membered, endowed with a physical body; to the twofold constitution of the plant with its physical and etheric body, the astral body is added as a third member in the animal, and the I-organisation as a fourth in the human being. The astral body is the cause of illness. Such a body does not embody itself in the plant. Its soul body remains in the supersensible; it radiates its forces from the periphery into time and space, touches the plants only from the outside, and creates a reflection of itself in their form. In the purity of its etheric organisation, the plant connects with the substances of the earth, enlivens them, and composes them into its physical organisation. In this connection, it becomes in its forms the sensuously visible

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