Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/1019/en

What reveals itself in this regard in the animal? The being, the source of all formation, remains concealed. What appears is not soul and formative force themselves, but soul-expressions and workings of forces. A horse, harnessed to the plough, expresses itself in soul in its movements — in the compliance with rein-pressure, in holding to the furrow, and in the way it leans powerfully into the collar as it moves forward, and so forth. All these expressions of force have their origin, beyond any doubt, in the being of the horse. We perceive them in the tensed muscles, the traces, in the breaking-open soil, in the gliding of the furrow slice over the mouldboard to the lateral deposit. The force proceeding from the horse reveals itself in the polarity of rest and movement — and this in simultaneity. That is what characterises rhythm. The rhythm the horse displays in all its movements — in walking, trot and gallop, or in the up-and-down swing of the head when drawing heavy loads — springs from the soul-being of this animal. Rhythm creates economy in the working of forces; it saves force. One becomes conscious of all this as an onlooker; the underlying process — how the soul-element translates itself into force and force into an outward action — remains concealed.