“ If one were to pulverize quartz to the point where in its parts it would no longer have the tendency to act according to its own inherent powers, something would grow from the quartz that had living cosmic quality. This happens in seed development. There matter is pushed out so far that the cosmos can come in with its ether powers. ”
The natural powers of quartz naturally take it towards crystallization. This tendency was to be overcome by pulverizing it. The problem has been mentioned in section 4.2.2.1. The quartz was not to be split into atoms but changed in its functions so that it could directly serve the ether body. Here the picture was much broadened.
Quartz was to be as open to the life principle from the cosmos as are the seeds of a plant. Quartz was to address the powers of growth and development in the organism directly. This shows that pulverization (trituration) can only have been a metaphor. However fine, quartz sand will never reach a seed-type state. But how can it do so?
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