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• Title: Agriculture Course (1938): Lecture I
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  • Whether you will be equally satisfied with the course of
  • I mean Agriculture. I cannot say whether what I am going to say
  • whether or not the plant is used for food. The two interests
  • the case of plants that are doing well or badly whether or not
• Title: Agriculture Course (1938): Lecture II
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  • these first lectures, we shall bring together, from the field
  • matter whether cow-manure is taken from the neighbouring farm
  • what may be called its elements of life-ether and chemical
  • activity (chemical ether). The inner life of the soil and the
  • we must realise clearly that the cultivated ground together
• Title: Agriculture Course (1938): Lecture III
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  • in Nature. It is the great sculptor of form, whether we are
  • any other living being must be penetrated by an etheric
  • etheric element which will either remain stationary about
  • But the main thing is that the etheric element is in both cases
  • This etheric element could not abide our physical earth world,
  • works in the etheric element (we may say that the lowest level
  • of the spiritual works in the etheric); this physical bearer
  • which is permeated by the etheric element, and
  • the universal ether into the body is oxygen.
  • as the brooding? vibrating etheric element which
  • permeates it. It is in the track of oxygen that the etheric
  • there lives the lowest order of the supersensible, the etheric
  • birth the bearer of life, of the etheric element. It becomes
  • ether and this living ether takes hold of the oxygen through
  • living oxygen which carries the ether. And beneath it we have
  • These two polarities must be brought together. The oxygen
  • throughout Nature the oxygen bearing the etheric life must find
  • carbon — whether it be the animal and vegetable kingdoms,
  • astral spreads forth in activity. The etheric life-element
  • speaking, the astral in the nitrogen drags the etheric element
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• Title: Agriculture Course (1938): Lecture IV
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  • whether a certain weight of matter in certain proportions
  • undergoes digestion, but whether we are able to take up in the
  • decomposition, bears etheric life within it. And this is the
  • point. When soil is so constituted as to have etheric life
  • by means of its etheric life, raised itself to a higher form of
  • distinct tendency to be penetrated with etheric life. This is
  • the plant with its own etheric life. Why do I say this? The
  • diffused as a scent is instead held together so that the scent
  • etheric but even of the astral elements. And that is
  • actually pervaded not only by living and etheric but also
  • the etheric element is too ebullient. A too powerful sprouting
  • of the etheric life hampers the astral element in the compost
  • were too much, the etheric element is taken up by the
  • element without the detour through the etheric element.
  • way, we hold together that which would otherwise
  • conviction that etheric life and even the astral principle must
  • etheric formative forces, which then penetrate right into the
  • nature is fitted to reflect the living etheric and astral
  • radiates etheric life and even the astral element. Indeed, if
  • the current of etheric-astral life which streams inwards from
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• Title: Agriculture Course (1938): Lecture V
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  • within the realm of life. We saw that the etheric life forces
  • the different ways of preparing manure — whether
  • together (mark that we remain always within the region of the
  • that it will work on any sort of manure, whether liquid, solid
  • capable of closely binding together all substances
  • together slightly and then place them, not in a bladder nor in
  • etheric body is working too strongly so that the astral element
  • kills (damps down) the forces of the etheric body and so sets
  • limestone. But if it is necessary for an over-powerful etheric
  • let them wither a little, press them together, sew them into
• Title: Agriculture Course (1938): Lecture VI
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  • influences, whether they come through the atmosphere around the
  • earth, or whether they come from below through the medium of
  • not the only thing which reaches the Earth. Together with the
  • all mixed up together because we do not understand the forces
  • together, because one went about it with a sort of instinctive
  • (regardless of whether it is or not) it issues its
  • etheric body and a certain connection is the normal
  • etheric body does not form a proper “cushion”
  • etheric element. The moon can do this more easily when the
• Title: Agriculture Course (1938): Lecture VII
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  • taking place: through warmth, through the chemical-etheric
  • and through the life-ether. Unless we take account of these
  • place in Nature when we have to deal with the life together of
  • herbaceous plants so closely together that their roots were
  • separated from it and are only, as it were, etherically
  • Etheric. It is in this way we need to look, with a macro-cosmic
  • tree here has a certain inner vitality, a powerful etheric life
  • cambium causes an impoverishment of the etheric life in the
  • tree. The tree within is deprived of etheric life as compared
  • some of the etheric life from the soil; it makes the soil
  • the atmosphere around the tree and of the etheric poverty in
  • the impoverished etheric element beneath, spreading in
  • around it tends to throw off the etheric life whereas the upper
  • of etheric life in the soil if this amount becomes
  • alive and the sprouting etheric life too strong, these animals
  • for these wonderful animals allow just that amount of etheric
  • world and lime brings about the drawing off of the etheric
  • farming-land. For mushrooms “hang together” with
  • directly together. And now? of course, you will say:
• Title: Agriculture Course (1938): Lecture VIII
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  • physical and etheric body and being more or less surrounded
  • “habitus” of a plant and so on reveals whether or
  • whether these things are said by a farmer or by a layman.
• Title: Agriculture Course (1938): Appendix
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  • sower proceeds, whether he simply takes the seed from out of
  • the sack and flings it down, or whether he is accustomed to
  • STEINER: In this case one should find out whether the children
  • actually cannot be ill because the etheric principle is always
  • the root-stock together with the seeds of the weed in
• Title: Agriculture Course (1938): Contents
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  • Chemical activity=chemical ether
  • Ebullient etheric principle
  • Etheric-Astral in compost heap
  • Etheric element, impoverished
  • Etheric life, raised above level
• Title: Agriculture Course (1938): Preface
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  • the privilege, together with Herr E. Pfeiffer, to carry out
• Title: Agriculture Course (1938): Discussion 12th June, 1924.
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  • hand, and ask yourselves whether this could be conveyed into
  • it is not — immaterial whether a medical remedy has been
  • QUESTION: Does it matter whether the horn is taken from a
  • obtained according as to whether it takes place at a lesser or
  • the atomising of the liquid will cause the loss of the etheric
  • on to be manured, or can they be buried all together in any
  • whether one should use machines is rather out of date. No
  • whether from cows, horses or sheep?
  • whether this has any ill-effects. But the obvious thing is to
  • other day as to whether parasites could be combated in this
  • realise that it makes all the difference whether an exercise of
• Title: Agriculture Course (1938): Discussion 13th June, 1924.
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  • QUESTION: Does it make any difference whether the soil
  • opinions and nothing more. Nobody knows whether they have been
  • “sausage” etc.) be buried together, or each
  • QUESTION: Should the holes be made close together at one place,
  • body. Whether the animal develops enough forces to enable it to
  • upon whether it absorbs its food in the right way. To
• Title: Agriculture Course (1938): Discussion 14th June, 1924.
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  • that really we have no right to ask whether things are
  • whether a substitute can be found. I cannot say at the moment.
  • cease altogether in time. The produce grown in fields that have
• Title: Agriculture Course (1938): Discussion 16th June, 1924.
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  • makes a difference to a district whether it is provided with
  • does not make much difference whether the salt is added at the
  • moment of eating, or whether it is used in the preparation of
  • then changed back again by means of the etheric body into
  • QUESTION: I would like to ask whether the inner attitude with
  • ANSWER: The main thing about an inner attitude is whether it is