Translations:Manfred Klett: Von der Agrartechnologie zur Landbaukunst/940/en

Everything that appears is form — the garment of the substantial. Form filled with substance is addressed as a body in space. As the preceding consideration makes clear, this form-congealed substantiality shows itself as a specific composition of forces that has solidified processually — "the end of the ways of God." Forces are invisible; they manifest in their effects — form-changes, for instance. In principle there is no expression of force without a cause, without an originator. These are hidden from sense-perception even more deeply than the force itself. The originator is the great unknown in the play of forces — the spirit. Through all the kingdoms of nature, right up to the human being, it constitutes the physical bodily organization and reveals itself in its purest form of appearance in the crystal forms of the mineral kingdom. The spirit is the mover in the formative forces that ray in from the far reaches of the cosmos. The originator of all appearances of physically inorganic, dead nature is being-endowed spirit. Equally it is spirit that lives in the streams of etheric forces flooding in from the spheres of the Sun and planets, and forms these into etheric bodies of the plants, the animals, and — reaching beyond the human being — into etheric bodies of higher spirit beings. The originator of all life is being-endowed spirit. Equally it is spirit that weaves in the astral forces raying in from the cosmos and, in accordance with the being of the animals, the human being, and beings standing above him, shapes their astral body. In the animal and the human being it mediates to the etheric forces the formative impulses that build up and sustain the bodily organs, as well as the higher organs that serve soul-experience, the unfolding of moral impulses, and the activity that is proper to each being's own nature. All soul-existence is spirit! And finally it is spirit that fills the I-being of human beings and in

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