Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/1727/en

At this level, nature is only in a very limited sense the master. What she teaches are relational contexts between the things and beings of nature — for example, the coexistence of blossoms and insects, the relationship between earthworm activity and soil fertility, the grouping of animals and plants into biotopes, and so on. In these webs of relationship, reason holds sway; an overarching whole lives invisibly within them, one that unfolds in the world of the senses into a sum of individual appearances. This wholeness appears nowhere in nature to the senses — it appears only in the human being, who carries this essentially whole thing as his I within himself. The human being has the possibility, through advancing self-knowledge, to recognise himself as a spirit being, and with this capacity to penetrate cognitively also into the unmanifest wholeness-being that reveals itself in the animal, plant, and mineral kingdoms through the wisdom-filled wealth of relationships.