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Then they observed what happened to the plants when these were exposed to frost, exposed to the influences which the giants of the storm and wind carry through the airy spaces, or again, exposed to the seething of the fire-giants. They studied what the giants of frost and hoar-frosts, the giants of the storm, the fire-giants, if loosed and set free, would do to the plants. At length they came to the point of taking the plants themselves, and imitating within certain limits all that was indicated in outer Nature as the influence of the giants. They subjected the plants to a certain process, to the freezing cold process, the process of burning, the process of binding and solution.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"The Sun-Initiation of the Druid Priest and His Moon-Science","site_heading":null,"date":"1923-09-10","location":null,"word_count":236,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/228/1923-09-10/p020","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"E. H. 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