Hugo Erbe's New Bio-dynamic Preparations

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0951789023 ISBN 13: 9780951789025

Publisher: Mark Moodie, 2003

Biodynamic agriculture is gaining credibility and accolades. However, this fascinating and enigmatic approach to agriculture has not enjoyed much fundamental development since Rudolf Steiner initiated the discipline in the 1920s. Hugo Erbe, a student of Rudolf Steiner, collected ideas from Steiner's many lectures and publications and used his own developing facilities of perception and comprehension to become innovative and creative. Some of the results are the twenty-one preparations presented in this book. Erbe's biodynamic preparations supplement those presented by Rudolf Steiner. Their creation and application is described in Erbe's own words. He said of his own work: "It may appear, at first sight, presumptious to wish to add anything to what Rudolf Steiner gave from his comprehensive spiritual insight. However, Steiner never left any doubt that he did not wish his indications to become hardened dogmas, but that they should rather be seen as laying the foundations for a new type of agriculture and as being open to further development and to modification according to circumstances. We may reasonably presume that he expected his pupils to develop their own personal activity out of the needs of each new situation."