Translations:Manfred Klett: Von der Agrartechnologie zur Landbaukunst/1158/en

The background that first makes the deeper significance of the round-dance of the biodynamic preparations recognizable and experienceable is the all-encompassing core idea of the «landwirtschaftlichen Individualität» (farm individuality), its bodily organism, and the interconnections of ideas that constitute a biodynamic farm as a wholeness largely closed within itself. Just as working with the preparations creates, as it were from below out of the sphere of willing, a foundation of experience, so on the other hand, building upon this, the cognitive work with the supersensible reality of being is the necessary complement from above. Knowledge of the spirit and knowledge of nature must flow together in the doing; only in concrete engagement do they generate true pictures through which every particular fits into a higher whole. What thus lights up in the soul as a true picture of the spirit takes on outwardly material form in the individual preparations and continues to work with specific force-activity into the nexus of nature.