Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/1243/en

Just as natural science has the phenomena of the senses as its object, so spiritual research has as its object the revelations of a world of spiritual beings. The results of the latter present themselves to thinking consciousness in idea-forms. They appear clothed in a particular wording that is adequate to the idea. This wording is the phenomenon. The more exactly and unprejudicedly one studies this wording, the more brightly the spiritual content of the idea lights up within thinking. The first step, then, toward understanding the spiritual-scientific results in the eight lectures of the Agriculture Course is the study of the exact wording. In superficial reading one easily goes astray, and finds in place of the eagle only individual feathers. In the Course, out of anthroposophical spiritual science, before an audience intimately acquainted above all with agriculture, the highest spirit-cognitions penetrating the kingdoms of nature are considered in connection with concrete agricultural practice. If one strives in the study of the text for the greatest possible unprejudicedness, then the wording in which the supersensible results are described in this way and no other is an equally given fact as any phenomenon of the senses.