Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/357/en

Despite all the thoroughly admirable achievements of modernity, we must not close our eyes to the fact: we are standing on a rubble-heap of the Western-Christian agricultural culture. The usurpation by industrial methods of production has broken its culture-bearing force and, since the 1960s of the twentieth century, dug its grave. Yet every death also bears within itself the germ of new becoming. This can be grasped when one becomes conscious of the deeper becoming-impulses of the past. A pronouncement of the *Doctor Angelicus*, Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274), runs: past and future has time — present, it has not. — One can sound this pronouncement further in thought. In the present, both streams of time encounter one another and extinguish themselves. The stream of the past dies into form, into the sense-perceptible event. In this form, however, the stream of time from out of the future awakens as germ. The plant seed makes the event visible to the senses. It bears within itself, congealed into the form of the genome, the imprint-stamp of the past. This "imprinted form, developing in life," contains a germ that holds the potency to open itself to the stream of time from out of the future. Thus one can say: in the objectification of what appears to the senses lies the moment of death, in which the time of the past turns into the future. Future is past in transformation.