Translations:Manfred Klett: Von der Agrartechnologie zur Landbaukunst/1454/en

on the one hand woven into the essential being and activity (working, function) of each individual organ of the abdominal cavity; on the other, it simultaneously conveys the sum of these activities to the chief ganglion centre of the solar plexus. One may therefore also call the peritoneum — together with the smaller ganglion nodes and the great ganglion centre — the inner heaven. Other ganglion designations of the abdominal cavity that have evidently been chosen intuitively, such as the «gestirnte Ganglion» (star-shaped ganglion) (*Ganglion stellatum*) and 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 ruminants, and among these above all in the ox, this heavenly relationship finds its highest development. In the act of rumination the cow does not perceive images of a sense-given outer world, but rather — in the form of force-bearing images — a revelation of the essential reality underlying it.