Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/633/en

The overriding question confronting every striving human being today is not the question of appearance alone — that is, the side of form in things — but the question of the agent that creates this form. Form we perceive through the senses, which are body-bound; being we perceive through soul-organs, which we can first develop along the path of individual spiritual schooling, in that part of the soul that lifts itself free from body-boundness. From anthroposophical spiritual research there are results available — won by the spiritual researcher through body-free cognition on the basis of such developed higher soul-organs, and graspable by the thinking consciousness of every human being. The essential factuality of the results of anthroposophical spiritual research discloses itself to ordinary consciousness: on the one hand through logic — in the unprejudiced thinking-through of spiritual-scientific results they support one another and unite into spirit-real thought-pictures — and on the other hand through the deed of action — they prove their fruitfulness in daily doing. Both paths of cognition, deepened by a third, personal spiritual schooling, complement each other and help the soul toward a spirit-certainty within the I, concerning what the spiritual researcher describes of the world of beings that creates, forms and shapes. Anthroposophical spiritual research opens to human reason a deepened understanding of the concept of wholeness. The human being learns to understand himself as a microcosm that contains everything which, macrocosmically, fulfills the universe. Through self-knowledge, supported by the results of spiritual research, he can acquire the capacity to discover his spirit-kinship with the things and beings of earth and cosmos. Nature no longer appears to him as a sum of individual facts — arbitrarily manipulable and, in negation of their own worth, interchangeable with one another — as the methods of agrarian industrialism are characterized.