Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/620/en

to the strengthening of its sensations. The food of the cow consists of plants, predominantly stem and leaf. These are formations arising from the in-rayings of the cosmos into the earthly element of substance. When we eat plants, we eat the cosmos. The cow, with its highly developed instinctive life, analyses the cosmic share in the physical coming-into-form of the plant. The organ that processes the result of this analysis, of the back-radiation, is not the consciousness-engendering brain. Rather, what must be thought of is — in polar opposition — the sensitive peritoneum lining the entire abdominal cavity, and in particular the *mesentery*. This concentrates itself in double-lobed fashion especially in the mesentery that bears the small intestine. What discloses itself to the cow there, in sleeping-dreaming awareness, is no longer the form, but the substantial-and-forceful, the being-side of substance. Its own, unincarnated I-being — the "group soul" — enters into relation, in the depths of metabolism, with the essential ground of the substantive.