Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/1259/en

The paths of research named above open up three levels of reality-experience in working with the preparations. These condition one another. In earnest seeking for understanding, none of them can be dispensed with. There are two culmination points in the course of the year at which this can be raised especially into consciousness and can thereby take on a festive character. These are, in spring, the days following Easter, and in autumn, the days around Michaelmas. At both times, certain preparations are taken from the earth and carefully stored, and others are prepared and exposed — above or below the earth over summer, below the earth over winter — to the seasonally active forces of the yearly rhythm. In some places, the attempt is made to shape both events as outstanding festival days in the course of the year — above all the Michaelmas day on 29 September, in which not only all those working on the farm can take part, but likewise interested people from the surrounding social community. In keeping with the three paths of research, such a day can be shaped so that first the passages in the Agriculture Course that bear on the preparations to be made at that time are read aloud, then a contemplation may follow that seeks to characterise one or another preparation plant or animal organ sheath in its particular properties; finally, the further course of the day is devoted to the activity of the making itself and to the observations and experiences that can be gathered in the process.