Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/1224/en

From the sequence of levels set out above, one could easily conclude that the excretions of the human being would bring about a further enhancement of fertilising force. The opposite, however, is the case! A glance at the structure of the members of the human being and the digestive activity resulting from it throws light on the matter. The purely spirit-resting kernel of being of the human being irradiates the bodily members and establishes itself in them through the I-organisation. It works upon these members of the human being and reshapes them towards higher stages of their development. In this consists the further development of the human being — one that, into all future, is to be won by the human being alone. Most powerfully, in the present time, the spirit-soul of the human being works at the reshaping of the still partly body-bound astral body into the body-freely working so-called «spirit self». This work of the I upon the members of the human being — that is, upon the life or etheric body and the physical body as well — lays claim to forces. The I takes these up through the I-organisation: through the soul by way of the perceptions through the senses, and through the body by way of nourishment. The substances and forces of the earth nourish the body, so that the spirit-soul of the human being may, within this body, in the unfolding of the soul-activities