Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/776/en

The filling with essential being is a macrocosmic event and at the same time one into which intervention — whether in the good, constructive sense or in the evil, destructive sense — is placed, now and henceforth, in the freedom of the human being. Out of the instinctive states of consciousness of earlier human epochs, interventions have occurred that led to the development of cultivated soil, the cultivated plant and domestic animals (cf. chapter "The Ancient Persian Cultural Epoch," p. 42 ff.). The stamp impressed upon natural things and beings through these cultural achievements already bears an "individualized," site-specific character. This intensifies with the awakening of the I — an impulse of Christianity, which in the Middle Ages led to the formation of village communities with centre and periphery. Today we stand at a fundamental turning point: the shift of the centre from without to within. To the degree that the spirit-soul places itself, cognizing and acting, into the macrocosmic contexts and brings its doing into accord with these — to precisely that degree does the individuality of the human being widen and impress itself, "filling with essential being," upon the wholeness of the farm. With this, a development into the distant future is mapped out: "We must be altogether clear that the agricultural domain, together with