Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/522/en

In place of the evolutive education of animals, conducted under the guidance of the Mysteries in the earlier great ancient civilizations, today's animal breeding has stepped in. It optimizes and exploits certain heritable traits, and makes the domestic or culture animal into a mere utility animal, an object of mass production. This development — seeing in the animal only a hollow, material object, arbitrarily manipulable through its genes — can be met only if the intuitive beholding strives for a true understanding of the essential nature of the various domestic animal species. What wisdom speaks, for example, from the beholding and active engagement with the cow, the horse, the bee? The becoming-aware of their outward appearance within the context of their living and activity space, their faunal interdependencies, and the indications from spiritual research awakens sensations and ideas that open to spirit-and-morally guided action new, evolutive paths of breeding and education. These paths into the future are given voice by Christian Morgenstern (1871–1914) in the sentence: "Whole ages of love are necessary in order to repay the animals for their services and merits toward us." Toward this aim, one must connect with what is evolutively disposed on the three following levels of being.