Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/396/en

Polar to the head pole beneath the earth, the "belly" of the farm individuality opens out above the earth. Here, under the direct working of the cosmos, life arises — as it were in the sense of a kind of "outer digestion" of light, warmth, air and watery vapours. Here everything coming into being steps into outer appearance in form and colour, and everything that passes away draws appearance back again into the invisible inner world. Everything is in motion — the sprouting plant, the freely moving animal, the active human being; the clouds draw past, the vapours rise, the rain falls, the wind moves every single leaf, surges through the grain, the lightning flashes and splits the oak, the thunder rolls, the wandering stars trace their paths and the sun brings day and night over the earth. Here, at the metabolic pole of the farm individuality, everything is subject to ceaseless transformation. While beneath the earth the spiritually living, released from the material, pervades the earth as inward stirring — as thoughts pervade the head — so above the earth this life shapes itself in form and colour within the material. The