Translations:Manfred Klett: Von der Agrartechnologie zur Landbaukunst/69/en

of the old into the new, the yet-to-come. With these questions they turned to Rudolf Steiner (1861–1925), the founder of anthroposophical spiritual science, with the request for guidance toward a renewal of agriculture into the future. This request was met around the time of Whitsun 1924 with the Agriculture Course, which in the framework of the Rudolf Steiner Collected Works bears the title Spiritual Foundations for the Renewal of Agriculture. The course was held at the estate of Schloss Koberwitz (today Kobierzyce) near Breslau (today Wrocław in Poland) in Silesia. In eight lectures the gaze is directed toward idea-contexts that call forth human creative power in two directions. Inward, first — by endeavouring to think these ideas of spiritual research in living pictures, and to let that thinking become experience. And outward — by striving, out of this living experience of ideas, to shape the nature of a particular place on earth beyond its given natural being into the wholeness of a farm organism. This approach presupposes a spirit of inquiry directed both toward what presents itself to the senses as the natural foundation of the farm, and toward what reveals itself to thinking consciousness as the findings of spiritual research. This scientific disposition opens up a world of facts of a sense-perceptible and supersensible nature, and at the same time the context of their relationships to one another. In the contemplation of such relational contexts — between sun and leaf-green, lunar rhythms and weather phenomena, blossom and pollinating insect, earthworm and humus formation, and so on — the ground is prepared for an inner experience out of which every action, sprouting forth, can become an artistic act. In this sense the practice of a biodynamic farming is a through-and-through artistic happening: an inwardly wrought experience of ideas comes to outward expression across the bridge of work. What is set out in Rudolf Steiner's Art and Knowledge of Art can be condensed into the following form: Art is when a sense-perceptible living in intuitive beholding — and, concealed within it, a supersensible — inwardizes itself in the depths of the soul into an experience, and out of this experience represents itself in something outward. Art sprouts in this way

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