Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/1240/en

The biodynamic preparations are inventions of the human spirit, an efficacious artistry whose origin lies in the investigation of the world of the spiritually essential and supersensible. They are apprehensible only in a spiritually supersensible way — that is, along a path on which the spirit-soul of the human being, through long and rigorous schooling, makes itself capable of body-free cognition. Body-free means that the one who cognizes no longer requires the bodily senses in order to have thoughts; instead, the world of beings images itself, at the first higher level of cognition, directly in thought-pictures: in Imaginations. These are images of the life-creating spirit-reality, while thoughts bound to the senses and to the intellect support themselves upon the world of appearances; in this case the outer form is the phenomenon. In body-free beholding, the spiritual researcher recognizes the spiritually essential being that creates these forms within earthly existence. He recognizes how these forms, which constitute our world of appearances, are dead endpoints of a development out of the spirit that has gone before over long ages. He beholds in every form-appearance within the nexus of nature — in a rose, a lily, or a crystal — an «achievement of evolution», a work of art that has died into form. He beholds the end, yet knowing of its beginning. And so the question presents itself to the spiritual researcher: Does the end, the work of creation, bear within itself the germ of a new all-encompassing becoming? Can — yes, must — this hidden achievement of evolution be recognized, and grasped and brought to unfoldment through spirit, heart, and hand of the human being becoming conscious of his tasks for the future? Does not the sought-for kindling-spark for a new agricultural culture lie in this germ? And are not the idea-contents of the «Agriculture Course» — and here the spiritually scientific and artistic stroke of the invention of the