Translations:Manfred Klett: Von der Agrartechnologie zur Landbaukunst/224/en

In the Enlightenment of the eighteenth century, something rose up from the concealment of Rosicrucianism and related spiritual currents into the social consciousness — the theologian and «theosopher» Friedrich Oetinger (1702–1782) may stand as one representative. German Idealism drew in philosophy, poetry, science, and the arts from these spiritual undercurrents. Out of these very undercurrents arose the ideals that stood at the beginning of the French Revolution — the calls for liberty, equality, and fraternity. They are, in transformed shape, the very same that were laid out in the threefoldness of the free economic village communities of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries; the very same that at the beginning of the seventeenth century impulsed the Rosicrucian strivings toward a «Generalreformation» (General Reformation); the very same that Goethe (1749–1832) worked over artistically in his Wilhelm Meister, in Hermann und Dorothea, and elsewhere. These calls, which flowed from the stream of an esoteric knowledge through the centuries — they too were shattered against the retarding

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