Translations:Manfred Klett: Von der Agrartechnologie zur Landbaukunst/182/en

In primordial Christianity of the first centuries, the Christ impulse seized and permeated the intellectual or mind soul of those people in Greco-Roman culture who were receptive to it. The sense of personality was filled with a warming inwardness through a strong empowerment of the I. For the early Christians, the main focus was on cultivating the awareness of the indwelling of the Christ impulse in the human soul. This impulse signified a jolt in the I-awakening. In this germinal state of the soul, the inner disposition regarding the manner of individual devotion to plant and animal, Earth and cosmos, may certainly have undergone a transformation. On the whole, however, agriculture continued on its accustomed course. Only after the fall of the Roman Empire and after the torrents of the Migration Period had the Christian impulse settled so deeply into individual human beings that they began this through their

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