Translations:Manfred Klett: Von der Agrartechnologie zur Landbaukunst/1180/en

The direction of gaze from within to without directs attention toward the nexus of nature into which we work with the ideas of spiritual research in the making and application of the preparations. There we bring about a transformation within our own interior — in the sense of a deepening of understanding — and equally a transformation of the «Inneren der Natur». Both transformations stand, through the idea-guided will — that is, over the bridge of work — in a spirit-real relationship to one another. Thus one can accompany every preparation step with the question: what transformation-process is taking place? — as, for example, with the chamomile preparation, when the chamomile blossoms, enveloped by the small intestine of the cow, are buried in the earth over winter. In the process of making all the preparations, transformation-steps take place that lead to new substance-compositions with new properties. Each of these new substance compositions bears a potential of qualities that, as a fertilising force, brings about specific transformations in the living. The direction of our researching attention with regard to these fertilising effects is indicated by Rudolf Steiner himself. He points out that, as a working of the preparations, certain substance-transformations take place in the living, and characterises their effects on soil and plants — for example — as "enlivening," "health-giving," "reason-pervading," "sense-awakening."