Translations:Manfred Klett: Von der Agrartechnologie zur Landbaukunst/1655/en

still undivided, concealed within a dull, atavistic-clairvoyant experience. These great civilizations stood, as set out at the outset, under the guidance of the Mystery-life, within which the wisdom-teachings of the past were as vitally alive as an awakening consciousness for Promethean impulses toward the future. Out of this all-embracing sacramentalism — still wholly turned toward the spirit-world — sacred art released itself, and in the course of humanity's evolution of consciousness it emancipated itself by degrees, through metamorphoses, into pure artistic creations across each of the succeeding cultures. Art established itself progressively as an independent factor of culture alongside religion. Through these ages and into the modern era, agriculture was the cultural ground from which artistic creations sprang. This was true in the fullest sense for the beginnings of sacred art in the breeding of domestic animals and cultivated plants. Further steps of emancipation are then the building of the Egyptian pyramids — which, as it were, descended from the spirit-world and turned inside-out in the earthly — then Greek art, which gave divine realities human form, and after Christ the art of the Middle Ages, with its cathedrals striving upward from below and the devoutly inward gaze of the human being in sculpture and painting.