Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/506/en

Insects feed — whether aphid, wasp, bee or butterfly — preferentially on substances that are themselves the result of warmth-processes in the plant: on assimilate saps, sugar-laden juice — honey arises from this only through the digestive tract of the bee — from the nectaries of leaves and blossoms, from pollen and resins. In building up their bodies they continue the warmth-blossom process in which the growth of the plant comes to an end. It is the same kind of soul-astral forces that flood in from the cosmos with sunlight toward the plants, touching and forming them from without in stem, leaf and blossom — it is these forces that have become internalised in the flower-visiting insects and have condensed into their soul-nature in each case differently. How else is one to understand that on the one hand certain blossoms seem formed precisely for the visit and pollination of particular insect species — the clover blossom in its relationship to