Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/1677/en

It is thus the mesenteric peritoneum which, in the digestive activity of the cattle, perceives the forces working from out of the spirit. This sense activity of the peritoneum, which in the cattle is directed inward toward the material, directs itself — with the enclosure of the dandelion blossoms — outward toward the silica «finely distributed in the cosmic periphery». One must assume that it is the higher, etheric condition of the silica that is here addressed. The peritoneal sheath draws this silica-substance to itself in a sense-active manner and unites it with the potassium of the milky sap, sublimated in the blossoms. The substance-process in the dandelion from below, and the peritoneal sheath from above, point to a comprehensive Jupiter-activity. As all planets are working-places of hierarchical beings, so on Jupiter it is beings of wisdom. On Jupiter, wisdom is substantial. When one brings before oneself the outward appearance and the substance-processes of the dandelion (cf. pp. 406 ff.), it becomes apparent in this highly developed plant how the wisdom-filled Jupiter-working extends from the root, through the leaf rosette, the blossom and its