Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/1452/en

The Domestic Animal Skull

Just as singular as the oak stands among the preparation plants, so apparently self-contained is the sheath organ from the animal kingdom that serves for the preparation of oak bark — the domestic animal skull: «Es ist fast einerlei von welchem der Haustiere.» (It is almost immaterial which of the domestic animals it comes from.) This statement of spiritual research harbours once again great riddles. With the other preparations, the sheath organ is strictly assigned to a particular animal family, such as the noble game, or to a particular animal species, the cow as domestic animal; here, however, in the case of the preparation of oak bark, the animal species plays no role — only the fact that it fulfils the essential quality of being a domestic animal. The particular characteristics of bodily constitution and soul-behaviour were addressed in the chapter «Die Haustiere – Organe im Hof- und Landschaftsorganismus» (The Domestic Animals — Organs in the Farm and Landscape Organism) (p. 126 ff.). These are highly variable and differ substantially in form and orientation from their counterparts living in the wild. But what is it — across the boundaries of species, family and order — that makes an animal a domestic animal? Since the domestic animal was degraded to a mere utility animal in factory farming, the concept of domestic animal has become empty of content. It receives