Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/751/en

A third step of research leads finally to grasping the composition of the ensouled living, of the "living interconnections," as they show themselves in nature generally and in the biodynamic farm organism in particular. Every higher plant forms a living interconnection with root, stem, leaf sequence, blossom and seed; so too does the near-infinite web of relationships of the "oikos," the household of nature, which differentiates itself in turn into a multiplicity of living communities (biotopes) — and so too does that which, from what nature provides, is created by human hands as an agricultural organism. The living interconnection of this organism is formed by the measured, harmoniously attuned composition of arable farming, animal husbandry, garden, fruit and hedgerow cultivation, meadow, pasture, forestry and water management. This composition has as its basis — in the broad and deep sense — the forces working essentially in cosmos and earth: precisely those that bring about the transition from one form of appearance to the other. The laws of nature are fragmentary abstractions of the human spirit from this supersensible world of forces — an isolated knowledge, through which the farmer for his part co-shapes this composition. If this knowledge, without any effort of cognition directed toward the living interconnections, is reduced to a mere isolated technical implement — pesticides, herbicides, and the like — then it wreaks incalculable havoc in the household of nature. These are arbitrary interventions in the essential nature of the living. To recognise living interconnections means: with the force of living thinking, to peel out of the sum of appearances and their transformations conceptually self-consistent wholes of content — as, for instance, the concept of organism and individuality as the foundational idea for the shaping of agricultural operations. This is where the core task of research in biodynamic farming is touched upon. It concerns: