Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/416/en

The concept of the organism is fulfilled when one attempts to think the working-together of the three members of the being — physical body, life or etheric body, soul or astral body — as a whole. What supersensible cognition alone opens to thinking as reality, the contemplation of the animal can teach. Only with the endowment of an astral body — that is, of a soul-nature penetrating earthly substance, as is the case in all animal life — does an outside and inside come into being: "In the astral body, the animal form arises outwardly as total form and inwardly as the forming of the organs [...] When this forming is carried to its conclusion, the animal nature takes shape."