It was an April morning: fresh and clear 
The Rivulet, delighting in its strength, 
Ran with a young man's speed; and yet the voice 
Of waters which the winter had supplied 
Was softened down into a vernal tone. 
The spirit of enjoyment and desire, 
And hopes and wishes, from all living things 
Went circling, like a multitude of sounds. 
The budding groves seemed eager to urge on 
The steps of June; as if their various hues 
Were only hindrances that stood between 
Them and their object: but, meanwhile, prevailed 
Such an entire contentment in the air 
That every naked ash, and tardy tree 
Yet leafless, showed as if the countenance 
With which it looked on this delightful day 
Were native to the summer.—Up the brook 
I roamed in the confusion of my heart, 
Alive to all things and forgetting all.
[ . . .]
—William Wordsworth, from " It was an April morning: fresh and clear"

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What Are We Really Eating?
Practical Aspects of Nutrition from the Perspective of Spiritual Science
Otto Wolff

Dr. Otto Wolff—known to English-language readers through his home remedies—offers a clear description of the foods we eat and what we should really look for in them.
Scientific investigation of nutrition has led to increasing industrialization of food production. Vast numbers of details are known, but industrial processing is causing the force of food to be progressively lost. This makes people feel unsure about which foods are still healthy today.
Otto Wolff’s aim is to enable consumers to form their own opinion about the food they eat. He takes guidance from the principle stated by Angelus Silesius:

“The bread is not our food; what feeds us in bread is God’s eternal word, is spirit, and is life.”

Dr. Wolff shows that it is not the physical substances as such that feed us, but the force of life in our foods. The knowledge that life is transformed light has been completely lost in modern agriculture. However, viewing food as it is in biodynamic agriculture can help us gain true insight and understanding of food quality.

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“Today we are in the middle of the problems that this book
warned of when it first came out in 1996. The life forces of
people, and especially of young people, are getting ever weaker….
What can bring life and light to people again? Things that contain life and light. And this also has to do with food, which should be full of these forces.”
— Daphné von Boch, MD

Also of interest

From the Collected Works of Rudolf Steiner

Rosicrucianism and Modern Initiation
Mystery Centres of the Middle Ages: The Easter Festival and the History of the Mysteries
Translated by Mary Adams
10 lectures in Dornach, Switzerland, Jan. 4–13 and Apr. 19–22, 1924 (CW 233a)
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And as an age is now approaching which will again be an age of greater spirituality, we must begin to develop what in our present state of dullness we have not developed. But above all it will be necessary for knowledge, for intuition, for experience of the spirit, that can be gained through contemporary initiation, to encounter the esteem and reverence gained through freedom. Without appreciation, without reverence and true knowledge, a spiritual life is really not possible. We make a right use of these festival seasons when we employ them to develop, and in some small extent to implant in our souls, this feeling of appreciation and reverence for what is spiritual that has evolved in the course of human history; when we endeavor to learn as intimately as possible how and why external historical events point to spiritual facts, and carry over what is spiritual from one age into another. . . .

—Rudolf Steiner, lecture of April 22, 1924 (CW 233a)