Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/612/en

Thus from the digestive tract there works into the bodily inner space an etherised and soul-permeated substance-stream: a stream of etheric formative forces released from their binding in the plant forms; and radiations of sentient — that is, soul — forces that the cow has stirred in itself through its sense activity, above all during rumination. The former are taken up by the blood and stand available for the building of the organism's own substance, for growth and for reproduction. The latter radiate in close relationship to the blood into the organism. The venous blood, flowing back from the great systemic circulation, loads itself with the substances and forces sifted in the intestinal walls. It reaches, by way of the liver, the lesser circulation of heart and lungs, and there enlivens itself into arterial blood. From the heart it flows into the great systemic circulation, a portion branching forward into the trunk of the head arteries, one of which reaches as far as