“The homemakers of old had an instinctive knowledge of the helping elemental beings, of the protecting penates and the spirituality of a household, which the human being today has lost.

“But since the household organism is a real world, the human being can and must acquire this knowledge again. For these beings live in processes, live in events. And the homemaker stands in the midst of such events. For housework consists of processes of different kinds, and in these jobs the homemaker continually influences the life-spheres of elemental beings. If she experiences the household as an organism, then she has an initial basis for a path of knowledge. She revitalizes her work through thinking about it each day. Processes, which had been unconscious before, now become visible–she begins to wake up.”

From a fabulous slim book with a title that will never ever land it on “The New York Times” bestseller list: “The Spiritual Tasks of the Homemaker” (scroll way down), by Manfred Schmidt-Brabant, 1996, published by Temple Lodge Publishing, a wonderful Rudolf Steiner press.