Knowledge still arises today from two sources, namely experience and insight.These are ultimately based on the perception and thinking. However, the relation between the two changes with time. Whereas in previous centuries insight was valued over experience, today the pendulum has swung in the other direction.Now, only what is secured experimentally through sense perception is considered to be proven, while knowledge based on insight is doubted and felt to be unreal.

Reductionism is contrary to the methodof reading from the bookofthe nature, an approach elaborated by Goethe, the founder of a natural science that is in accordance with the spirit. It cannot be the purpose of an investigation or exploration only the follow the sequence of letters in a book without encoutering what hte words mean. The sequence of words should be looked upon as an expression of a superordinate content of thought, an idea, or a being. In the future one should be able to read in the Book of Nature and understand it, not analyze it.

This book is an attempt to read in the field of biochemistry in this manner. *Only if we can penetrate down to the concrete details of material process in the divine creation can we penetrate spirituality with science and lead science back to spirituality. Likewise, it is necessary to follow the divine activity of creation right down to the outermost limits of the material.* (Rudolf Steiner)

Edition Perceval

420 pages