Translations:Manfred Klett: Von der Agrartechnologie zur Landbaukunst/1164/en

biodynamic preparations, the answer to the question posed above? Rudolf Steiner investigated, in body-free essential cognition, the germinal element concealed in the mineral, plant, and animal worlds, and on the basis of these findings created a methodical principle through which the evolution-achievements in the field of tension between cosmos and earth can be brought into a relationship of an entirely new kind. The fruits from the evolutionary lineages of the past enter, through human hands, into relational nexuses of an entirely new kind — ones that inaugurate a new becoming that transforms what has become. This transformation process is a different one for each of the preparations; yet the methodical procedure underlying the production of the preparations is in principle the same or similar for all of them: it is a theme with variations. In order to arrive at a deeper understanding of this theme, three paths of research must be undertaken.