Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/383/en

The form pole stands in polar opposition to the substance pole. This encompasses, below the diaphragm, the world of the metabolic organs and the limbs. Soul activity reaches there into the life processes, directing the transformations of substance, mobilising the forces which the will can then draw upon in order to set the limbs — and bodily activity as a whole — into motion and keep them there. All organic processes underlying the unfolding of will, all processes of breakdown, transformation and build-up, fulfil themselves in deep unconsciousness, in a sleep-consciousness. They run partly in counter-directions simultaneously, partly in flowing, streaming temporal succession. Over against the strict, self-contained ordering of the nerve-sense system, the metabolic pole is governed by a constant change and flux; limbs included, everything is in motion; nothing remains the same for a single moment. Just as the soul connects itself with the world spiritually through the senses in the head pole — in sensations and in thoughts — so it enters into relationship with its surroundings physically through nutrition and through the activity of the limbs.