關於種子，看起來只是一顆粒狀東西，人們不會特別思考，只是想到它能種出植物。
史代納博士提到可以以種子去進行想像力練習，在此暫時不談。而他對種子有以下的描述：
The basis of the seed formation is, in reality, that earthly matter tears itself away from the principle of structure and passes over into chaos, becomes chaotic, contains no more forces of matter in itself. Then, when no earthly structure is present, what is working out of the cosmos can assert itself. The cosmic declares its readiness to mirror the cosmic structure in the minute. In the seed formation the “nothingness” asserts itself over against the earthly and the cosmos works into the nothingness..
In the seed, matter is driven out to such a degree that the cosmos can intervene with its etheric forces. The world must be seen as a perpetual entering into chaos and again an emergence from chaos.
<Course for Young Doctors – Easter Course 1924>
亦同時了解到為什麼使用配方時，農夫需要順時針和逆時針攪動。