Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/1022/en

This relationship of beings to their modes of appearance in the kingdoms of nature finds expression in the manner in which the body-building substances are stamped. In the human being, the bodily substance-composition individualizes itself according to his spirit-soul, his I. The being lifts the substances out of their merely physical existence and composes them into force-configurations that correspond to the level of existence on which they appear. At the first, lowest level of existence — that of physically inorganic nature — the structure of substances follows the laws that hold sway there. These laws are graspable in chemical-physical concepts and manifest themselves objectively in the creations of technology. At a second level of existence, that of the plant kingdom, the substances compose themselves according to higher lawfulnesses, no longer graspable in concepts, of the etheric body of formative forces. Through this, earthly working of forces is incorporated into the cosmic. A third level of existence of substantial compositions constitutes the animal kingdom. The animal can build up its body only through the intake of nourishment from without. In the process of digestion it destroys the nutritive substances through the force of its own soul-being and composes out of this same soul-force its body-specific materiality. This is configured in such a way that it becomes the bearer of a soul-element dwelling within the animal — a soul-element whose essential ground lies beyond the sphere of the Sun, in the distant cosmos, in what is for that reason called the zodiac. The fourth level of existence of the substantial is embodied in the human body. In it, the physical, etheric and astral stamping of the substances is individualized through the I. Only through the substances in the body — the DNA, for instance — being arranged according to the force-source of the I can they dwell in the body. They create for themselves in the body an I-organization. Through this, the human being comes to appearance as an individuality.