Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/1283/en

The significance of this discovery arising from spiritual research can be illuminated, against the background of contemporary technological and natural-scientific development, by the following consideration: As has already been indicated several times, in the course of evolution along the path of the becoming-human, the kingdoms of nature have separated themselves out from an originally spiritual condition that once encompassed both the human being and the earth. This becoming has congealed into the sense-perceptible work of creation: the lifeless mineral finds itself separated from the living plant world, and the plant world from the ensouled animal kingdom. When one beholds nature, one can speak of every sense-perceptible appearance as a final state that has congealed into completeness — as something that has become. The crystal is such a state; so too is the flowering plant, and the animal living out its kind. Can the rock crystal be more perfect than it is — or a dandelion, a worm, a fish, a bird, an insect, a mammal? What meets us as sense-perceptible in the kingdoms of nature is the work of creation of evolution, congealed into completeness.