PHILOSOPHY OF MODERN AGRICULTURE PART 1: BIODYNAMIC PREPARATIONS - HELLMUT FINSTERLIN

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Hellmut Finsterlin with this first volume has given us the essence of his long and rich personal experience in the field of biodynamic preparations. The entire text is an in-depth and brilliant analysis of Kobertwitz's course, not only theoretical and practical but highly enlightening and proactive for those who want to engage in a personal study applied to practice. For example, just the idea of ​​preparing a specific horn manure for siliceous, clayey or calcareous soils with the addition of specific elements is something that arouses amazement, but rereading a phrase by Hugo Erbe who said "The farmer will learn to look for and find individual preparations, created by him. This does not seem so much a possibility, but rather a certainty of individual learning. ... In my modesty I allow myself to announce that on this path there can be completely new developments regarding the knowledge of substances" and it is clearly understood that biodynamic agriculture must always be dynamic and never firm and static! Precisely for this reason this first volume of the "Modern Philosophy of Agriculture" is truly a great mine of ideas and experiences to revive and raise awareness for the farmer starting from an in-depth study on the substances of biodynamic preparations. Another thing I would like to point out is this: “It should be underlined that when Steiner talks about supra-solar planets and sub-solar planets, he is not referring precisely to those celestial bodies. This is clear from his writings. He refers to the sidereal spaces that these planets occupy and travel through. … An essential thing we must do is to change the tracks of our thoughts and open them to anthroposophical concepts, if we want to better understand The Course!” This step by the author is fundamental: one can very well do "static" biodynamic agriculture using preparations but one can and today I would say, one must, understand the peculiarities of that Nature and what lies behind and within that W. Goethe called “a mystery revealed”. This study of the substances of Nature through an anthroposophical form is a flame of consciousness that Hellmut Finsterlin reveals to us forcefully and loudly and clearly! Like Hugo Erbe, the author was considered a "dangerous heretic" because he had the will, the strength and the courage to say what he thought without fear or deference towards the already old and papery institutions that refer to "museum biodynamics" which he does not realize his extreme human limitations, enjoying and being satisfied, in their miserable small way, with self-satisfaction, because unfortunately one of the human characteristics is that of needing long periods of time to be able to work on oneself and today we can no longer allow ourselves the luxury of wasting time. Listen to what he says again in the book: “The farmer must learn not only to pay attention to the beings under him, but must also do so through his peers, such as the spirits of the group souls, the spirits of the elemental realms , and everything above them too! The farmer must separate himself from the fairy tales that are told to him and strive for the divine!”