Biodynamic Preps
500 prep
The preparation 500 is
applied to the soil to stimulate processes favoring humus development
and root growth. We can look at this prep from both a physical and
metaphysical viewpoint.
On the physical, we have a substance
that is highly active biological material composed of cow manure which
has turned into humus in the horn of a cow. Analysis shows the prep to
be enriched with enzymes, natural hormones, bacteria and fungi, and
digestive juices. All of these are well-stabilized through the
humification process undergone while the horn manure has been buried in
rich topsoil over winter and dug up in spring.
For application
small, homeopathic doses are stirred in water energetically in a vortex
for an hour and then sprayed onto the soil. This carries the forces and
biological qualities of the vitalized humus into the land, creating
enlivened support to humus-creating processes.
A quality 500 prep is made from:
Manure from a mature, healthy cow with good digestion
Buried in good quality top soil
With horn tips pointing up.
Ready 500 has a mellow brown color and sweet, forest floor smell.
It should be stirred in a non reactive material, wood, ceramic, copper, stainless.
Stirring proceeds for an hour. Vortex one way then the other.
This
stirring permeates the water with both the substance and forces of the
preparation and creates a potentized effect, enabling the small amount
of substance to give a stronger creative impulse.
Spraying is done in the late afternoon or evening with overcast and moist days serving well. But avoiding rain.
The
plant stands between humus , which is developed and utilized through
the interaction of biological and mineral activity in the soil, and the
warmth and light from the cosmos which energize it. The processes
involved are interwoven. Prep 500 stimulates decomposition and active
soil processes, creating a vitalized home for rooting activity.
501 prep
Atmosphere,
light and warmth work from above, stimulating form, nutritional value,
taste and aroma. This is enhance by the prep 501.
The material
silica, with its relation to energy and light, has the opposite effect
in nature to that of humus. The 501 prep is made from silica, using
quartz dust. Silica is integral in the supportive tissue and sense
organs of plants, animals and man, yet in very small amounts.
Quartz
is of course a transmitter and amplifier of energy. Taken internally
for humans it has been found to boost hair, skin, nails and connective
tissue. Applied topically it aids in the healing of wounds, cuts and
prevents scarring. Quartz also runs watches and computers and is used
as an amplifier of human energies.
Stiener described the silica
preparation as having an as important effect on plants’ assimilation of
light as the horn manures effect in supporting the humus process in the
soil, and complement one another.
501 enhances the ripening
processes of fruit and encourages leaf development. 501 can be used
prior to harvesting to aid the plant’s final ripening and development
of aroma, taste and nutritive quality. It can also be beneficial where
light forces are diminished, during extensive overcast, or during
autumn months, or in the greenhouse.
To make 501 quartz is
ground into a dust and mixed with small amounts of spring water to make
a paste. This is then packed into a cow horn and buried again in the
ground, but this time during the spring and summer months, exposing it
to the earth forces of summer. The horn-encased quartz is enriched with
the sun forces and metabolized to a certain degree in its moist living
environment.
Research indicates that the finished prep has a
higher content of trace minerals as well as micro-organisms. The
average horn produces 300-500 grams of 501, enough for 150 to 250 acres
of land.
Why the cow horns?
For
this we need to look at the nature of the cow. The cow has a four
chambered stomach that processes its food for 18 days, digesting and
utilizing cellulose and roughage with the aid of the most varied
intestinal flora.
The resultant cow dung is a highly
astralized substance containing numerous animal secretions in the form
of digestive juices. It is as though the cow being, in its chewing and
slow digestive process of taking apart the fodder, is meditating on the
energies set free from the herbage, experiencing inwardly the forces
that had been bound into the plants. Maybe this is why the cow is
outwardly so dull, much like the guru in meditation.
The horns
and the hoofs at the cow’s extremities keep the forces from raying
outward and dissipating themselves. The horns are thus a device that
concentrates and throws back what is pressing into it, like a condenser.
This
may seem far fetched, but when we look at the importance of shapes, it
is certainly a probability. The tone quality of instruments, such as
violins and drums depends on the shape of the instrument. If the shape
is off, the sound vibrations are disharmonious.
Suggestions have
been made that bees could not make honey were it not for spending their
larval stage in hexagonal cells, and humans would not be able to think
were it not for a spherical cranium. Perhaps, then, it is possible that
the form of the cow’s horn concentrates the earth’s forces as they work
on the dung or on the pulverized quartz.
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