Translations:Manfred Klett: Von der Agrartechnologie zur Landbaukunst/1383/en

Just as singular as the oak stands among the preparation plants, so apparently standing apart is the sheath organ from the animal kingdom that serves for the preparation of oak bark: the domestic animal skull — "It is almost immaterial from which of the domestic animals." This pronouncement of spiritual research harbours in turn great riddles. With the other preparations, the sheath organ is strictly assigned to a particular animal family — as with the noble game — or to a particular animal species, the cow as domestic animal; here, however, in the case of the oak bark preparation, the animal species plays no role; what alone counts is that the creature fulfils the essential quality of being a domestic animal. The particular characteristics of bodily constitution and soul-behaviour were treated in the chapter "Domestic Animals — Organs in the Farm-and-Landscape Organism" (pp. 126 ff.). These are highly variable and differ in their shaping and orientation essentially from their counterparts living in the wild. But what is it — beyond the boundaries of species, family, and order — that makes an animal a domestic animal? Since the domestic animal was degraded to a mere utility creature in factory farming, the concept has become empty of content. It regains

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