Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/1734/en

preparations. These owe their origin to an artistic process that is kindled at the experience of the idea-forms of anthroposophical spiritual science. What is uniquely particular to this process is that here the arrangement of substances found in nature — which, as Rudolf Steiner sets out, are built up "in the sense in which Christ has gradually arranged them" — is now placed, in its beginnings, into human hands. It is set within human freedom to carry out this arrangement from that very same source of spirit. If at first these are only indications from the spiritual researcher, one is nonetheless so guided that in these aims one can divine how deeply they are rooted in the grounds of spirit. The intuiting of a spiritual aim that points into the future can, precisely in artistic fulfilment, brighten into certainty of spirit. For this, however, it is required that at each individual step taken in the making and application, the attention is directed at the same time toward the great interconnections within which the preparation-activity unfolds. The co-experiencing of such interconnections in the here and now of earthly conditions creates, for the successive preparation steps, something like a sheath. So for instance when one calls to mind the cow — whose significance in the context of the cosmos grows immeasurably, as the bestower of most of the organ sheaths — or the herbs whose blossoms are used; or the seasons and the place where the preparations are buried or exposed to the working of the elemental; or finally the working of sun, planets and stars, which encloses the whole process from every side. The entire periphery stands as godparent to each individual preparation step. The attempt to sense this in the doing awakens a new art, a new kind of artistic creating — one that does not merely place itself alongside nature the way a sculpture or a painted image does, raising nature above itself out of one's own archetypal experience, yet remaining semblance — but an artistic creating that dives into nature and awakens in it new impulses of becoming.