Translations:Manfred Klett: Von der Agrartechnologie zur Landbaukunst/1467/en

The envelopment in the mesenteric membrane brings about a first inversion of the natural process and with it a first step of emancipation from that process: the outward-radiating gesture of the dandelion flowers, turned toward the cosmos, is now turned inward, filling an interior space. Different the case of the peritoneum, which had lined the abdominal cavity like a kind of «Himmelsgewölbe» (vault of heaven), enclosing all the abdominal organs — and so artfully the loops of the small intestine as well — standing in sense-relation to the hidden activity of digestion: now it is turned outward. The double lamella, or double serosa, of the mesentery described above now unfolds in a new way a sense-activity directed both outward and inward. Inward, this activity is directed — through the serosa of the inward-turned lamella — toward a life-activity that has reached an evolutive culmination in the flower heads of the dandelion, while the serosa of the outward-turned lamella opens itself to the forces that ray in from cosmos and earth from without. Seen in this way, 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 two polar spheres of perception.