Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/614/en

The Significance of the Horns and Hooves

In the horns and hooves the blood — and the etheric-astral radiation bound up with it — strikes against a wall that is impenetrable even to this radiation: the outer horn-sheath. This is the outer skin hardened into horn, pure "form," the death-pole standing over against the life-pole of the substance-stream pulsing upward from the depths of the body. Here, at this point of damming-up or death, the blood and the radiation are driven back into the organism. In the horns and hooves the organism of the ruminant closes itself off completely from the in-raying workings of cosmos and earth. The cow is thrown back upon itself — not, however, in the direction of a heightened consciousness in the head, but of an enhanced formative force in the living reality of the metabolic pole.