Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/1529/en

The enveloping in the mesenteric membrane brings about a first inversion of the nature process and with it a first step of emancipation from that process: the radiating, cosmos-directed gesture of the dandelion blossoms is now turned inward, filling an inner space. Different is the case with the peritoneum, which, like a "heavenly vault," had lined the abdominal cavity, enclosed all the abdominal organs — and in an artful manner the loops of the small intestine as well — and stood in sense-relation to the concealed activity of digestion: now it is turned outward. The double lamella or double serosa of the mesentery described earlier now unfolds, in a new manner, a sense activity directed both outward and inward. Directed inward, this sense activity — by way of the *serosa* of the lamella turned inward — bears upon a life-activity that has reached an evolutive high point in the flower heads of the dandelion, while the *serosa* of the lamella turned outward opens itself to the forces that ray in from cosmos and earth from without. Seen in this light, the unified sense-function of the bovine mesentery divides into a polar double-function. Untouched by this remain the connective-tissue sides of the two lamellae; they continue to adhere to one another and form, as it were, the connecting link between the polar spheres of perception.