Translations:Manfred Klett: Von der Agrartechnologie zur Landbaukunst/1453/en

Just as the outer skin and the four middle senses embedded within it — the senses of warmth, sight, taste and smell — convey to waking consciousness a sense-image of the reality of being, so the inner skin of the peritoneum conveys the revelation of this essential reality itself — the latter principally in connection with the life sense. This announces dimly the bodily conditions. It belongs, alongside the senses of balance, movement and touch, to the lower, the will-senses. By virtue of their proximity to 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 standing over against it, but rather immerses itself in the revelations of being that come to expression in the activity of the body-cavity organs. Thus the activity of the bladder, as organ of concentration and excretion, is a different one from that of the small intestine as the organ that takes in the digestive juices. Different again are the activities of liver, pancreas, spleen, and so on. The peritoneum is

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