Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/1659/en

The Series of Animal Organ Sheaths

These too articulate themselves, with inner necessity, into a first threefoldness — seen from the metabolic pole of the animal, moving toward the heart — and into a second threefoldness, from the anterior of the animal, the sense pole, toward the middle. In this connection Rudolf Steiner characterises the working of the planets in the animal in relation to the sun (Fig. 36, p. 462). He proceeds entirely from intuitive beholding, from the «form and colour-configuration, also with respect to the structure and consistency of its substance, from front to back — that is, from the snout toward the heart — which bears the Saturn, Jupiter, Mars workings; in the heart the Sun working; and behind the heart, toward the tail, the Venus, Mercury, Moon workings». The higher animal, then, articulates itself along the horizontal of the spine into the polarity of the working of the supra-solar planets in the nerve-sense pole and of the sub-solar planets in the metabolic pole. Both are oriented from opposing directions toward the heart.