Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/1039/en

The idea-forms of anthroposophical spiritual science have the character of releasing, in their conceptual unfolding, a life that spurs toward deed. Thus, as described in the chapter "The Threefold Nature of the Human Being and the Farm Individuality" (p. 88 ff.), one can trace directly — out of the ideational nexus of the threefold nature of the human being and the active standing-within a farm organism — how on the one hand the warmth-air element above the earth draws earthly substances into life processes and subjects them to a kind of digestion, a continuing transformation of their forms of appearance; and how on the other hand the substance-element of earth and water in the depths, below the level of the soil, has fallen out of life and becomes form through and through in crystallising. A tremendous polarity of the heights and the depths, of substance-processes and rigidification in form, of movement and rest opens up. It is precisely that polarity which, microcosmically, in the human being presses itself together as the poles of his metabolic and nerve-sense systems. As these poles find their rhythmic equilibrium in the pulsing heart and in the breathing of the lungs, so do those of the heights and depths in the rhythmic dynamic of the soil (Figure 14).