Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/432/en

Like plant, animal and human being, the agricultural organism — which one may understand as the body of the "farm individuality" — also has a life organisation, an "etheric body or life body," which incorporates into itself a "physical body" suited to its essential nature (Fig. 8, p. 106). One is inclined to equate this life body with the sum of the life that sprouts forth year by year in plant growth. But where does this life — which appears in the forms of plants — remain when the plants shed their leaves in autumn or die back altogether? One might answer: the life withdraws into the seed, into the humus, or into the cambium. Yet these too are only forms of appearance of the living