Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/273/en

The consciousness soul lives itself forth at first with a Janus face. Turned backward, it seeks to prop itself up on the seemingly secure foundation of the general conceptual framework worked out by the intellectual soul or mind soul in the sciences — yet in doing so it runs the risk of falling, through an atrophying of the mind soul, into cold intellectualism, into arrogance, and into unbridled egoism. But if it looks forward, in self-knowledge and world-knowledge, into the future, it warms itself at ideas that become ideals — for example, the realization, in agricultural practice, of the organism principle grasped in thought. It strives to transform the past, within the present, into something future. The consciousness soul strives to place all initiative force in the service of fulfilling the idea of development. But that means laying the artistic sense at the foundation of all doing. The task is to enliven ideas from the future in thought and, with them, to plunge willingly into all the challenges of reality in such a way that, out of the inner empowerment of experience within the I, every action becomes a free one, an artistic one.