Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/277/en

The Age of the Consciousness Soul in its course thus far has led human beings to self-consciousness, has awakened in them the urge toward free self-determination, has let them plumb the depths of the abyss and opened to them paths toward true knowledge of the spirit. Humanity has emancipated itself from nature, and — fallen, as it were, into a forgetting of itself — thinks itself, despite its own spiritual origin, to be the work of a merely natural creation. In doing so it has lost itself, broadly, in the banality of a purely materialistic view of existence, and finds itself threatened by a technology that springs from precisely this view. The organism principle in agriculture has been extinguished by this mode of thinking. On the other hand, in the face of this descending development, the consciousness soul can be fired by ideas won from the cognition of the essential being of lifeless, living, and ensouled nature. These idea-impulses no longer arise from the once spirit-guided instincts, but are themselves wrought. In the awakening I-activity the idea of development comes alive — and with it, in a new way, the idea of the organism, and, as its extension, the idea of individuality. Both united can become the formative principle of an agriculture that works into the future in a culture-founding way.