Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/599/en

If one follows what natural-scientific individual facts yield regarding the digestive process, one quickly reaches the limits of cognition. These limits are generally not noticed, because the threshold to what is sense-unobservable is not sufficiently attended to and consequently not weighed. One slides unawares into abstract, qualityless model-conceptions. But once one becomes aware of this boundary of cognition — which opens up between what is objectively perceptible and the processual character of substance-activity, for example in the transition from outside to inside through the intestinal walls — one first truly begins to appreciate and value the significance and range of Rudolf Steiner's findings in spiritual research. When these research findings are brought in, the cognition resting on the outer senses becomes a continually expanding process of cognition. They illuminate the operative agent, the essentially active being, that brings forth the appearances in their forms and colours. The findings of spiritual research add to the outer side of the world of appearances its essentially creative inner side.