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• Title: Agriculture Course: Address by Dr. Rudolf Steiner
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  • more than organic, and involves working with the cosmos, earth, and
  • as anthroposophical content from realms beyond the Earth. And the same
• Title: Agriculture Course: Contents
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  • more than organic, and involves working with the cosmos, earth, and
• Title: Agriculture Course: Cover Sheet
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  • more than organic, and involves working with the cosmos, earth, and
• Title: Agriculture Course: Discussion after Lecture 4
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  • more than organic, and involves working with the cosmos, earth, and
  • from abroad might come into conflict with what is there in the earth
  • cosmic forces are caught up by the earth, work through the silica. You
  • Undoubtedly it does. You can generally leave the cow-horns in the earth
  • to keep them elsewhere, having taken them out of the earth, you should
  • quarter after taking them out of the earth?
  • them in the earth until you need them. If you are going to use them
  • in the early autumn, leave them in the earth until you need them. It
  • have spent the summer in the earth?
  • it has once spent the summer in the earth. Let the sun shine on them;
  • good. I mean, where the earth is not too highly mineral, but contains
  • — when the earth unfolds the greatest forces, the forces that
  • are most concentrated in the earth itself. Establish a kind of festival
  • however, provide for its proper protection by putting a layer of earth
  • all around it. Cover it over with earth; peat-earth or granulated peat
• Title: Agriculture Course: Discussion after Lecture 5
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  • more than organic, and involves working with the cosmos, earth, and
  • not better to pile up the manure above the earth than to sink
  • to the forces that are there beneath the earth. You cannot actually
  • that one can know of the whole structure of the earth and its relation
  • manure with the earth. Why deteriorate the manure by separating it from
  • the earth?
  • the different kinds of earth will have their influence, according to
  • their specific properties as kinds of earth. If there is sandy ground
  • — the inner consistency of the earth kingdom and also the watery
  • two kinds of earth will be the best. For the same reason you should
  • taking them out of the earth?
  • the manure-preparations be put into the earth all together, or each
  • it matter if the earth above the preparations is overgrown, once they
  • Answer: The earth
  • to the frost, they come into the very time when the earth, by virtue
• Title: Agriculture Course: Discussion after Lecture 6
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  • more than organic, and involves working with the cosmos, earth, and
  • choice. Either we must let civilisation go to rack and ruin on the earth,
  • been epochs of civilisation on the earth when such things were known
  • another. That which is Ahrimanic in the earthly sphere is only harmful
  • because it is in the earthly sphere. When it takes place in a realm
  • we take from the cows to bury in the earth. As to the bulls' horns
  • in Nature herself. You should not permeate the living Earth with something
• Title: Agriculture Course: Discussion after Lecture 8
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  • more than organic, and involves working with the cosmos, earth, and
  • never come into actual contact with the earth?
  • Sprinkle it on the earth just the same. For the insect, the process
  • it flees from what ensues when the preparation is sprinkled in the earth.
  • That the insect does not come into direct contact with the earth makes
  • of the cosmic influences at work in the earth. This cosmic influence
  • of the heavens on the earth is too strong, and the plants will tend
  • simply because too much of the heavens comes into the soil of the earth.
  • being used above the earth as radiant and as conducted electricity,
  • mineral kingdom of the earth.
• Title: Agriculture Course: Preface
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  • more than organic, and involves working with the cosmos, earth, and
  • the largest possible areas over the entire earth, so that the earth
  • to the largest possible areas of the entire earth, for the earth's
  • of earth and soil to the formative forces of the etheric, astral and
  • the significance of soil-life, the earth as a living organism, the role
  • influenced, however, by the earth's relative position in the planetary
• Title: Agriculture Course: Supplement
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  • more than organic, and involves working with the cosmos, earth, and
  • virtue of which the soil will be thoroughly worked-through by earth-worms
  • added to the earth. In certain cases it had an extraordinary effect;
  • of putting fresh earth around their roots — earth taken from the
  • compost — “not even if the compost-earth will only be needed
• Title: Agriculture Course: Lecture 1
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  • more than organic, and involves working with the cosmos, earth, and
  • the magnetic needle, but in the whole Earth, inasmuch as you assign
  • to the one end of the Earth the magnetic North Pole, and to the other
  • whole Earth. Yet the same nonsense (as applied to the magnetic
  • is the beetroot growing in the earth. To take it just for what it is
  • depends on countless conditions, not even only of the Earth as a
  • and animal, and of the Earth itself. We must extend our view to the
  • the earth.
  • possible the physical life of man on Earth — and that, after all,
  • in the life of the Earth. Nowadays we are wont to attach the greatest
  • the influences from beyond the Earth, but also of the atmospheric and
  • other influences of the Earth's immediate environment. Moreover, this
  • outer earthly world.
  • happens on the Earth is but a reflection of what is taking place in
  • The Earth is
  • and of that in the planetary life which is connected with the earthly
  • to the earthly life on a large scale, the first fact for us to take
  • earthly life (considered once more on a Large scale, and as a whole)
  • spread over the Earth so as to constitute 27-28% of our Earth's
  • aspect of the Earth with its plant-growth. (The plant-growth is
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• Title: Agriculture Course: Lecture 2
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  • more than organic, and involves working with the cosmos, earth, and
  • the justice of this statement if you consider the Earth on the one
  • which works down into our Earth from the Universe beyond. Nowadays,
  • on to the Earth from the surrounding Universe. They are aware, no
  • Earth which is the foundation of all Agriculture.
  • surface of the Earth diagramatically by this line
  • (Diagram 2). The surface of the Earth is generally
  • is added. In reality, however, the earthly soil as such not
  • this inner life of the earthly soil (I am speaking of fine and
  • a study of the earthly soil, we must indeed observe that the surface
  • of the Earth is a kind of organ in that organism which reveals itself
  • throughout the growth of Nature. The Earth's surface is a real organ,
  • view we now compare the Earth's surface with the human diaphragm,
  • concerned, the head is beneath the surface of the Earth, while
  • Whatever is above the Earth, belongs in truth to the
  • the Earth by way of air and water vapours and even warmth. Consider,
  • once more, all that element in the neighbourhood of the Earth in
  • place in the interior of the Earth beneath the Earth's surface
  • of the above-the-Earth and the below-the-Earth.
  • above the Earth are immediately dependent on Moon, Mercury and Venus
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• Title: Agriculture Course: Lecture 3
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  • more than organic, and involves working with the cosmos, earth, and
  • The earthly and
  • substances of the Earth, needless to say. In the next lectures we
  • forces work through the substances of the Earth? In the present
  • Earth-evolution carbon alone was deposited or precipitated. Only at a
  • the merely mineral and rigid limestone-formation which the Earth
  • Earth within him. For in the limestone form of the skeleton he has
  • the solid Earth within him.
  • within our physical and earthly world. It would, so to speak, always
  • take hold of in the physical, earthly world, if it had not a physical
  • the peculiarity of all that we have on Earth: the Spiritual here must
  • breathe, into the soil of the Earth. Albeit it is not so highly
  • too it becomes living oxygen. Oxygen under the earth is not
  • the same as oxygen above the earth.
  • outset the oxygen must always be drawn out of the earth realm;
  • spiritual essence which is accessible to us on Earth: the human Ego,
  • the Earth — the bridge between carbon and oxygen is built by
  • human astral body. It is the astral spirituality in the Earth's
  • in the air. But the moment it comes into the Earth, it is alive
  • nay more it becomes sentient and sensitive inside the Earth. Strange
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• Title: Agriculture Course: Lecture 4
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  • more than organic, and involves working with the cosmos, earth, and
  • spheres. But the world in which man and the other earthly creatures
  • the annual? Let us compare such a tree with a little mound of earth
  • assume: this is the hillock of earth, rich in humus. And I will now
  • earthly matter — permeated, as I have now described it, by humus-substances
  • in process of decomposition — such earthly matter contains etherically
  • living substance. Now this is the important point: Earthly matter, which
  • this hillock of earth being formed, with a hollow in the middle —
  • a mound of earth, with humus entering into it, working in the earthly
  • it, the “mound of earth” — transmuted into a higher
  • separating what is above the earth from the interior, all that is raised
  • inorganic mineral earth with fruitful humus-substance, or with any waste
  • to do this efficiently if you erect mounds of earth, and permeate these
  • with the said substance. For then the earthly material itself will tend
  • process takes place in the forming of the tree. The earth itself is
  • the nature of manured earth, or of earth treated in some similar way.
  • To manure the earth is to make it alive, so that the plant may not be
  • brought into a dead earth and find it difficult, out of its own vitality,
  • a parasite out of the living earth. And it must be so.
  • earth enough organic residues, and decomposing them sufficiently, to
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• Title: Agriculture Course: Lecture 5
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  • more than organic, and involves working with the cosmos, earth, and
  • a kind of continuation of growth within the earth. There is a vegetative
  • plant-life in the earth itself.
  • of earth — with the inner vitality of its humus-content —
  • this common life — common to the Earth and all plant-growth—nor
  • our farms, we are taking forces away from the earth — nay, even
  • we need for the impoverished earth, must be subjected to a proper treatment,
  • from the water which merely trickles through the earth, no further vitalisation
  • We must vitalise the earth
  • earthy element itself. To endow the mass of manure, or the liquid manure,
  • in the Earth, we must till the soil and manure it properly. Heaven does
  • the earth; we let it become permanently impoverished. We must then provide
  • all around the Earth — actively working, though in the finest
  • as they need what comes to them from the Earth. They draw them in from
  • soil of the Earth after they have been rayed into the soil from the
  • prevent the Earth from drawing into itself what it needs by way of silicic
  • it is really to receive all that it needs from the Earth. For which
  • will enable it to bring the right vitality into the Earth itself.
  • that takes place as between the earth and the plant — so to assimilate
  • very deep in the Earth throughout the winter.
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• Title: Agriculture Course: Lecture 6
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  • more than organic, and involves working with the cosmos, earth, and
  • earth and then work from the earth upon plant-growth. As I said, the
  • there planets, but by the round-about way of the Earth) — these
  • sphere, from that which is over the earth, we must perceive the workings
  • wider sense we may say: All the forces that work into the earth from the
  • of the earth, while that which works from the surrounding sphere is
  • proceed from the earth itself, nevertheless they transmit what proceeds
  • through the mediation of the earth. They have had to pay the penalty
  • Not only the soil of the Earth was exhausted — the traditions too
  • this as the level of the earth's surface. Here we have all the influences
  • in the earth in this way causes the plants to bring forth what grows
  • the level of the earth — all that which comes from the forces
  • of the Sun upon its surface and throws them back again on to the earth.
  • eyes — and the Earth, too, of course, receives These rays from
  • Earth as lunar forces, and so they have done ever since the Moon separated
  • from the Earth.
  • all that is earthly. Indeed, when the Moon was united with the Earth,
  • the Earth itself was far more living, fruiting, inherently fertile.
  • When the Moon was still one with the Earth there was nothing so mineral
  • as to intensify the normal vitality of the Earth, which is still just
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• Title: Agriculture Course: Lecture 7
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  • more than organic, and involves working with the cosmos, earth, and
  • earth. The tree is really “earth” for that which grows upon
  • its boughs and branches. It is the earth, grown up like a hillock; shaped
  • — it is rate—in a rather more living way than the earth
  • as the herbaceous plants and cereals are rooted in the Earth.
  • enable us to understand. Here is the soil of the earth: here I insert
  • In the tree with its cambium or formative layer, the earth-realm itself
  • more intensity of life, than the earth otherwise has, i.e.
  • unfolding the herbaceous plant that springs out of the earth directly
  • herbaceous plants growing on the earth, and a plant-world rich in astrality
  • differentiate, to individualise, as between the scent of earthly plants
  • the root, being more mineral, deprives the earthly soil — observe,
  • This makes the earthly soil rather more dead in the
  • down below, works through the larvae. Thus, if the earth had
  • no trees, there would be no insects on the earth. The trees make it
  • of the tree which are above the earth — fluttering around the
  • only live upon the earth by virtue of the tree-roots being there. However,
  • inside the Earth. These golden creatures — for they are of the
  • greatest value to the earth — are none other than the earth-worms.
  • earth-worm — how it lives together with the soil. These worms
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• Title: Agriculture Course: Lecture 8
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  • more than organic, and involves working with the cosmos, earth, and
  • of earthly matter. (So it is in man, too, but let us confine ourselves
  • is earthly matter. Already in the embryo-life, earthly matter is guided
  • that the head receives its materials from the Earth. There, then, we
  • have earthly substance.
  • bones, etc. — comes not from the Earth at all. It is cosmic substantiality.
  • the Earth. This is important. You must not regard a claw or a hoof as
  • system of metabolism and limbs we have to do with earthly forces —
  • cosmic substances and earthly forces. (As to the latter, you need only
  • of earthly gravity, and in like manner, all that we do with our limbs
  • is bound up with the earthly).
  • can go further. What is contained in the head? Earthly substantiality.
  • you have so much earthly substance. In man, too, in the brain you have
  • earthly substance. Only the forces are cosmic; the substance is earthly.
  • emerges as earthly matter in the brain has actually been excreted; it
  • is excretion — excretion from the organic process. Earthly matter
  • activity of the digestion — a certain quantity of earthly matter
  • of earthly substance goes through the whole path, and is at last literally
  • for man as you know carries his Ego down on to the Earth; in the animal,
  • And now when the animals feed on what is there above the Earth, they
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