Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/462/en

From that same supersensible region from which radiate the forces that touch the plant, as it were, only from without — forming it in its growth and letting it die into form — there originates the soul or astral body of the animals, which embodies itself in the body of the animals and irradiates it from within as its soul. This soul element, revealing its being, delimits the animal outwardly in its gestalt and articulates it inwardly into the succession of its organs. The soul organisation of the animal stands over its life body, and this stands over its physical organisation (Figure 9, p. 115). As already mentioned, in every animal species a particular soul-quality is embodied — a different one in the worm than in the fish or bird or insect or in the sequence of the mammals. The animal soul creates for itself in the shaping of the body an image, and it expresses itself in what the animal does. A multiplicity of animals populates a site. It is the more numerous, the more many-sidedly the life organisation of the farm or village precincts has been configured throughout. Articulated into species, families, and genera, they form in their totality the fauna of the site and stand in the most manifold, wisdom-filled relationship to the four elements, to living nature, and to one another. One can regard the animal world of a farm in its appearance and behaviour as organs of the "soul or astral body" of the farm as a whole. This