Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/1252/en

The Path of Research through Will-Experience

On the two previously named paths of research, one begins to form a picture of the connection belonging to each of the preparations. But this nexus of ideas becomes fully saturated with experience only when one lets it become deed in repeated practice. In the experience of the reality-establishing power of the idea in the making of the preparations, ever deeper layers of understanding open up. One experiences oneself — like the artist — as the mediator who plants something into the substance, something that comes alive in soul-perception as the result of spiritual research. The spirit-content of the idea, growing ever clearer within one's own self, is the guarantee that the action arising from it is no mere arbitrary act. For the action in the process of preparation-making creates relationships between natural objects — dandelion blossoms and the enveloping peritoneum of the cow, for instance — that are not the outflow of a working natural law. It is not grounded in nature, in no force (will) inherent to it, but in knowledge of the spirit, which through the human will plants itself into the course of nature as an effective agent.