Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/618/en

What takes place in horns and hooves, by contrast, is a heightened perception in relation to the inner empowerment of instinctive life. The perception discloses what the blood, suffused with ensouled vitality, carries forward from the digestive region toward the periphery of the body. In the surge against the dead horn-sheath, what lights up is not a consciousness bound to the brain, but a spiritual force working into the subconsciousness and raying back into the organism. An understanding of the nature of this force can arise when one turns, by way of comparison, to the thinking force working supersensibly in the human being — whose product is thoughts, which then become conscious in the head pole through the brain in a shaded reflection of their spiritual being-nature. In the cow this force does not rise to a thought-borne self-consciousness. It remains bound to the metabolism as a force that has the power to work upon the etheric formative forces freed from digestion — dampening, ordering, disclosing potentials of living efficacy. These potentials may be compared to an imaginative world of pictures that an artist, for example, stirs into activity within himself in the creating of his work of art. What the cow possesses as disposition, the human being can develop through self-schooling by way of body-free thinking. Through this he learns, in full wakefulness, to know in true pictures the world of forces holding sway in and around him. It is the step toward Imagination — the first step from knowledge of the senses to knowledge of the spirit.