Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/1516/en

Just as the outer skin and the four middle senses embedded within it — sense of warmth, sight, taste and smell — mediate to waking consciousness a sense-perceptible image of the reality of being, so does the inner skin of the peritoneum mediate the revelation of this essential reality itself — the latter in connection principally with the life sense. This announces dully the bodily states. It belongs, alongside the sense of balance, sense of movement, and sense of touch, to the lower, the will senses. By virtue of their proximity to the will, their activity rests in the deepest unconscious — that of deep sleep; it stands in immediate relation to the spirit-reality of being. The sense organ of the peritoneum therefore does not perceive an objective counterpart, but plunges into the essential revelations that find expression in the activity of the organs of the body cavities. Thus the activity of the bladder, as an organ of concentration and excretion, is a different one from that of the small intestine as an organ of ensheathing the digestive juices. Different again are the activities of the liver, pancreas, spleen, etc. The peritoneum is