Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/1254/en

In the case of the direction from outside inward, we submerge, in the activity of will — in the work, that is — into the spirit-reality of the world. What takes place within remains largely unconscious; as when, in the preparation of the yarrow preparation, we stuff yarrow blossoms into a stag's bladder. We would not do it at all if the will were not impulsed by the spirit that dwells in that idea, to the understanding of which we have drawn nearer on the two previously named paths of research. Thus the idea-content that lights up in thinking consciousness is tested in the doing — what is at first experienced only as an external process. It tests itself as an inner process against the hidden spirit-reality in which this idea-content creatively establishes a new relationship in the doing. This path from outside inward is one of practice — that is, of the year-by-year