Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/772/en

As mentioned in the chapter "The Threefold Nature of the Human Being and the Agricultural Individuality" (p. 88 ff.), the concept of "Agricultural Individuality" receives its essential being and meaning when the farmer undertakes to grasp it on the basis of a knowledge of the essential being of the human being. What anthroposophical spiritual science says about the threefoldness of the human being according to body, soul and spirit can be traced and verified in self-experience and self-knowledge. One can direct one's gaze toward the organisation of the body and find that this forms the physical and life-foundation for the activity of the soul and the working of the spirit. In the physiologically breaking-down processes in the nerves and sense organs, the soul becomes consciously awake to the content of its perceptual and thinking activity; in the physiologically building-up processes it unfolds, sleeping, its will-activity; and, mediating between the two poles, in the rhythm of heartbeat and breathing, it enacts, dreaming, the soul-activity of feeling. The spirit of the human being, his most original kernel of being, is rooted in the I. In the activity of the I, the spirit permeates these three soul-activities and the bodily processes belonging to them. The body, with its organs, substantive compositions and life processes, is the earthly organ of the spirit-soul — an image of that spirit-soul itself. The spirit-soul and the higher hierarchical spirit beings connected with it enliven and shape the body into a largely self-enclosed organism. Within it, as a microcosm, everything is active that fills the macrocosm spiritually and in soul. Through his spirit-soul, the human being is endowed with the disposition to find within himself the means and paths by which he can come to know both himself and the essential working and being of the macrocosm. What in primordial times was still essentially and livingly present in the macrocosm has, in the course of evolution, poured itself into the world — into the wealth of forms of the kingdoms of nature. It has become a Work. In the human I, the primordial beginning lives on, germinal, as microcosm. Out of the I, the force grows in the human being — through self-knowledge — to develop into a free individuality.