Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/479/en

The consciousness of the earthworm is sleeping-dreaming, and yet it has the power to create a coherent whole full of relationship. In this its work there appears, as image, what — in complement to its metabolism-emphasised nature — is its higher sense and intellectual nature. What the earthworm lacks, what the vermiform animal world as a whole lacks, is the polar elaboration of the head in relation to the metabolic system. What is absent — the complement to the head — is nevertheless present functionally wherever earthworms etc. are found: precisely as a spiritually supersensible reality of being, separated from the physically appearing body, yet standing in soul-relation to it. What is involved here is a specific group of elemental beings — the Gnomes, as they have been called since ancient times — whose substance of being is «sense and understanding in a