Translations:Manfred Klett: Von der Agrartechnologie zur Landbaukunst/110/en

From the instinctive interweaving of Atlantean humanity with the things and beings of nature and the spirituality of the cosmos, it is understandable that human beings — under the guidance of spiritual beings standing above them — disposed of capacities to exert influence upon the life of plants (grasses, herbs, trees) and animals (mammals, birds, insects), which, like themselves, still found themselves in a formative condition. The Atlanteans carried within them the heritage of the last period of the Lemurian epoch — geologically approximately the *Mesozoic* — in which these early proto-human beings were endowed with the I, the individual kernel of being. The mission of this I was then, in the subsequent Atlantean cultural ages, to shape the form of the physical body of the human being, and thereby to lay the germ for the

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