Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/1238/en

This individuation is accomplished in the soil, in the balancing middle of the heights and depths, in the manner of a kind of heart-and-lung function. It manifests in the form of the plant in the vertically upward-striving shoot and the taproot growing into the depths, as well as in the horizontally spreading leaf- and fine-root-work. On the path of individuation, each earthly site develops first into the «organism in natural growth». In this too, the threefoldness of the head pole beneath the earth, the metabolic pole above the earth, and the soil articulating itself between them, is already laid in as a disposition. Through idea and will — that is, through the artful hand of the human being — this individuation advances toward the shaping-forth of the «agricultural individuality». The human being, himself a becoming one, makes it into a becoming one. This aim — to implant the principle of development into the soil, into the middle of the agricultural individuality — will henceforth be the task of agriculture. The means to this end is manuring, and precisely that manuring which has its origin in the spirit of the human being. What is meant are the biodynamic preparations, as it were