Translations:Manfred Klett: Von der Agrartechnologie zur Landbaukunst/1679/en

One must think of the concept of the latter, from the perspective of farming, as one with the idea of the «farm individuality». Just as this individuality «fulfils its being» when it is «conceived» as such, so too does the individuality of the human being, the I, fill itself with the substance of being to the degree that, through the power of the I, it spiritualises its constituent members—physical body, etheric and astral body—that is, liberates them from their bondage to nature. The fulfilment of the I's being constitutes the developmental path of the human being across the incarnations. The more the I living in the body progresses in the consciousness of its spiritual nature, the more it can expand out of the surplus force of its being over the extra-human natural world and, in transforming it, through purposeful activity, learn to conceive of a farm as «a kind of individuality». This conceiving truly signifies an inauguration into the future: implanting the thought of development, which now comes from the human being awakening to his higher humanity, into the become being of nature. At the same time, it means to renounce, out of the power of the higher I, what the body-bound, selfish I wants for itself. This shows the way for Christianity to once again put down roots in the work on the earth in a new way. This vision of the future establishes the disposition out of which the farmer can give to nature in love what it does not have—a gift through which the working of the nature beings at a particular location can individualise itself into a higher whole.