Translations:Manfred Klett: Von der Agrartechnologie zur Landbaukunst/1661/en

The key to an "inventing to infinity" out of the spirit of the primal phenomenon — and to shaping what is invented into a work of art — can, in continuation of Goethe, be found in the idea-forms of anthroposophical spiritual science. These idea-forms are, seen in this light, themselves artistic creations out of supersensible cognition. They have the distinctive quality of coming to life in thinking, of becoming soul-experience in feeling, and through the will of transforming substance. The work of art arising from this no longer merely places itself beside nature — rather, these enlivened ideas have the power to reshape the reality of nature artistically, in the mirror of the human soul's development. The will inspired in this way extends itself into the inner nature of nature and begins to bring back into movement the work that has congealed into calculability. In biodynamic farming this occurs in three stages, proceeding from a way still more determined by nature toward one arising purely out of the spirit.