Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/629/en

The physical, life, and soul organization of an agricultural operation, as sketched here, is given macrocosmically through the site-specific interworking of the kingdoms of nature in the polar field of tension between earth and cosmos. The human being's task is to raise this given condition, according to the principles that underlie his microcosmic bodily and essential form, up into a higher unity. Novalis captures this state of affairs in the words: "Humanity is on a mission — we are called to the formation of the Earth." Biodynamic agriculture takes the fulfilment of this mission as its own task — extending the Western-Christian agricultural culture through anthroposophical spiritual science. The point of departure for this endeavour is the aforementioned course for farmers given by Rudolf Steiner in 1924. Biodynamic agriculture strives for a further development of the site-specific practice still proving its worth at that time — above all through shaping the farm into an organic whole, and beyond that through specific manuring measures to promote soil fertility and the nourishing quality of the produce. A further goal of striving is the formation of farm communities that give themselves their social order out of the living and working conditions of agriculture itself, and that, radiating outward, plant social formative impulses into the surrounding social sphere.