Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/393/en

Beneath the earth we meet the hard, solid world of rock that has fallen out of life and is therefore dead, and likewise the water element of the depths. The solid element of the earth rests in stillness, preserving its crystalline structure — which in summer finds itself more exposed to the weathering processes toward the earth's surface, while in winter it lives itself forth in its pure crystal nature under the crystal-forming formative forces of the sphere of the fixed stars — the Greeks called this the "crystal heaven." Just as the brain is the consciousness-making mirror of concealed thinking activity, so is the crystal nature of the silica-related rocks — quartz, silicates — which, like sense organs, reflect back in indirect working the crystal-forming formative forces of the most distant cosmic periphery, as well as the forces of the planets remote from the sun: Mars, Jupiter, Saturn. In polar fashion this holds for limestone and the limestone-related rocks, which in their affinity to the planetary,