Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/287/en

By the Turning Point of Time — and simultaneously as a fruit of the Mystery-culture — all the elements of agricultural culture that had grown over millennia, such as arable farming, garden- and fruit-culture, and livestock husbandry, were fully formed in advance (see Figure 2, p. 66). Must not people have felt themselves arrived at the end of a development? Had not the language of the Gnostics fallen silent as well, the pagan altars grown desolate? Had not the culture-inspiring force of the Mysteries — save for remnants such as the Mithraic service — gone out? What their wisdom-teachings had been lived on only as tradition, or in a few human beings as a living spirit-heritage. Where, then, was there at the