Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/293/en

and its mission of the gradual education of the I through the cultural epochs — the ever-working Mystery of Golgotha, which points humanity toward the paths of self-education, toward the recognition of its spiritual origin, and toward active love out of the force of the "I am." The casually spoken concept of the Turning Point of Time receives meaning and significance only through this historical process of inversion that the Mystery of Golgotha sets in motion. Only through this event of humanity can the idea of development light up in every human being in its full weight and bearing, and point the way to the force of initiative. Up until the Turning Point of Time, it was the stream of wisdom flowing out of the Mysteries that led the human being toward the awakening of the I. Since the Christ Event, the human soul — through the inner empowerment of thinking — can transform this wisdom into active love: into that force which is able to invert what has become out of spirit into a becoming within spirit. This metamorphosis cannot be thought large enough or far enough. It is wholly open toward the future and at the same time has direction and goal. This appears a contradiction, and so it remains for as long as the human being acts out of illusion and self-seeking. The contradiction collapses in upon itself to the degree that the wisdom underlying all things transforms itself, in free deed, into love. Both perspectives — the turning away from spirit, or in free self-determination the turning toward it — shape, in the post-Christian era, the course of humanity's development and its relationship to nature, and with that to the handling of the organism principle in agriculture.