Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/1272/en

of self-reliance. To the degree that he strives toward what he is destined for, he steps out of his bodily boundness and at the same time out of his sense-boundness to the natural being of the earth, step by step. He raises himself above nature and at the same time roots himself within it. Must he not feel called upon to give to the natural being of the earth something that the earth cannot have out of itself, something it would have to do without for all time? Certainly, every kind of love-borne devotion is called for here. But can this be limited to mere protection, to the preservation of what already exists — or must a new principle of evolution be implanted in the earth that has become a work of art, and with it in the cosmos, in the sense of a "creation out of nothing" that is caused by no outer necessity but springs as a free deed from the spiritual-soul nature of the human being? In answering this question, one may suppose, Rudolf Steiner conceived the biodynamic preparations out of a knowledge of the stream of time flowing from the future — as it were as "manure" for the stream of time flowing from the past, which has become the work of art of creation. This may be too large a thought. Yet whoever cultivates a practical relationship to the preparations out of heartfelt knowing can, in deeper feeling, gain a certainty of judgment that their handling marks an very first beginning in the direction indicated. Their manner of making follows strictly the principle of threefoldness — yet in a new way; it is not articulated according to the given primal unity but builds itself up out of the products of past evolutionary lines. These products — the physical-mineral (silica) of the earth, the living drawn from the plant kingdom (blossoms), and the ensouled drawn from the animal kingdom (organs) — form the poles of a polarity that is not given by nature. What relates these end-products of evolution to one another and thereby allows a new polarity to arise, and what heightens this into the synthesis of a new threefoldness, is the idea-led will of the human being. Idea and will are the formers of a new middle (see illustrations 23, 24, 25), of new substance compositions that are bearers of forces of a physical, etheric-living, astral-ensouled, and spiritual kind. Through the path of spiritual research, a treasure of spirit — ideas — has been laid into the hearts and hands of human beings, who can, in transformation, continue the "Work" of the ordering of substance through the "Christ" as a free deed. The new substance compositions of the preparations are inventions of spiritual research out of supra-nature, as the synthesis of ammonia is a result of the investigation of