Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/320/en

In the Gothic of the High Middle Ages, even the last remnants of rampant wild nature had been tamed and through I-willed labour refined into a "garden of God." Faced with the abundance of sculptures in the portals and niches, the living beings stepping forth from the capitals, the plant-like ornamentation adorning the outer skin of the buildings in so many places, one can gain the impression that the surplus living formative forces — released and purified from the surrounding nature — had flowed into the building, into the sculpting and painting hands of the artists. As these buildings themselves, so too the cultural landscape is now with them completed. Just as in the Gothic the soaring pointed vaults have a keystone — while in the Romanesque the round arch carries as a whole — so the Gothic as a whole forms the keystone in the development of the organism principle as the foundational formative element of Western cultural landscapes, and at the same time the keystone of the Age of the Intellectual Soul or Mind Soul.