Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/1358/en

The eye stands in a polar relationship to the bladder. As the bladder captures a material stream of substance from the soul-permeated interior being and concentrates it, so conversely the eye, which captures the spiritual element of the outer world and concentrates it in the image of perception. And as the bladder, discharging, opens itself to the outer world, so the eye mediates the image-content, raying inward, to the interior being. How strongly perception and excretion are interconnected is experienced by anyone who enters a cow barn conspicuously and at an inopportune moment. The cows briefly take notice, and already the metabolism becomes active; a rushing begins. In noble game this connection is polarized more toward the nerve-sense side. In bodily-bound openness of sense, it lives along with the cosmic element of its surroundings, and this imprints itself upon its bodily organization. To this imprinting the noble game bladder owes its particular "substantial constitution." What the stag experiences as cosmic presence imprints the material arrangement of the paper-thin membrane of the bladder. In its substantial imprinting through the forces of the cosmos it is "almost an image of the cosmos." At the same time the noble game bladder has a nearly spherical form. As a sheath organ it encloses an inner space and, with this power-form of the re-forming sheath, preserves the continuous course of the processes unfolding within it. Like all organs the bladder carries within itself, in form and preserving function, the heritage of the past macrocosm. What makes the bladder of the noble game so outstanding in comparison with that of other ruminants, for instance, and so suited to the preparation of yarrow, is the duality of its function. In its substantial constitution it stands in relation to the presently working forces of the macrocosm — in its form, by contrast, to the preserving forces working out of the past.