Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/1517/en

woven on the one hand into the essential being and the activity (efficacy, function) of each individual organ of the abdominal cavity, while at the same time mediating the sum of these activities to the main ganglion centre of the solar plexus. One can therefore also call the peritoneum, together with the smaller ganglion nodes and the great ganglion centre, the inner heaven. Other anatomical designations of the abdominal cavity ganglia that are evidently chosen by intuition — the "stellate ganglion" (Ganglion stellatum) as well as the Ganglion coeliacum (Coelum = heaven) — likewise point to the kinship with the macrocosm. "The body cavity is a heaven, a cosmic enclave. Here in the animal kingdom, and especially among the ruminants and among these above all in the cow, this relation to heaven finds its highest elaboration. In the act of rumination the cow does not perceive images of a sense-perceptibly given outer world, but rather, in the form of force-laden images, a revelation of the essential reality of being that underlies it.