Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/1029/en

Through ordinary thinking bound to the senses the human being learns to know the world around him as something that has come into being, completed, and himself as something becoming, uncompleted. He finds in himself the force and the guiding direction to transform the uncompleted nature of his members — the astral body or soul body, the etheric body or life body, and the physical body — upward toward higher completion. This force toward self-transformation belongs to every human being; it constitutes the whole of being human. When one becomes conscious of this fact, the idea of development becomes living; it becomes a spiritually effective reality. It places the human being who struggles through to self-knowledge in a position to raise himself above merely natural being, which announces itself to the eye only in forms that have died away, and to experience and shape the process itself that allows the future to come into being, out of the transformation of what is past, in the present. This process is enacted by the I of the human being — and in doing so it perceives itself.