Translations:Manfred Klett: Von der Agrartechnologie zur Landbaukunst/1170/en

As a third step of self-deepening research, meditative practice follows. One must endeavour to inwardly assimilate the contents of the *Agriculture Course* through thinking, to hold them present in all one's work, and to allow them to become the living substance of the consciousness soul. This substance of ideas has the power to impel one directly toward action. Its true being reveals itself only in the carrying-out and in its consequences. The biodynamic preparations receive their meaning only in unconditional doing. For only in the doing do they become real in a being-way. They are not yet so in the idea-form; rather, this idea-form fulfils itself — as if from out of the future — with being only when it becomes free deed. The path toward this opens the view onto the higher stages of cognition of Imagination, Inspiration, and Intuition, the winning of which stands as a goal for the future before humanity. The spiritual researcher has gone this path ahead of us. We stand humbly at the beginning. Yet on the basis of the results of spiritual research, we can, out of the force of the consciousness soul, win the certainty of spirit that we are on the right path. On this path we practise a new art that «das Innere der Natur verwandelt».

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