# 65. On the Absorption of Nutrients

The absorption of nutrients allows the cosmic activity to immediately flow into the sphere in which the human etheric body is active. This transition is already conditioned by the forces that underlie the human form. Within this absorption into the etheric body process, the cosmic forces of movement intervene insofar as they are concentrated in the seven organs, so that the gall process still represents the descent of the human ego into the first nutritional processes.

Then, in the liver, human astrality descends, so that it contributes to the inner life process through the spleen; from the body tissue, human astrality now begins to intervene in the overall life process, insofar as it acts through the etheric body on the physical body; it comes to life in the lymphatic system; from the heart (blood) the human I intervenes, which acts through the astral body on the etheric body and from there on the physical body; the descending processes of muscle tissue, cartilage tissue and bone tissue arise. And now one can work the processes of salting from the outside onto the blood, from the inside through the nutritional process. These interventions take place until the absorption through the blood from one side, and through the fluids until the transformation by the seven organs from the other side. The metallization goes into the seven organs and their soul correlates. The easily combustible substances go as far as the exchange process of lymph and 7 organs; they thereby regulate the processes associated with body warming; the forces active in the plant kingdom directly intervene in the sphere of 7 organs and lymphatic system; they go directly to the life processes, insofar as these are ascending.

Mineral substances on all systems = internally on bones, cartilage, muscle system (arbitrarily) on the organs, if their nutritional processes are not in order. —

Herbal substances on the life systems, if their functions are not in order.

The outside world forms in the exoderm, so that it goes inward until it is connected to the nervous system.

The impression of the outside world then progresses to the muscle and bone systems in the mesoderm; (outside) the inner world presents itself as the older one in the lesser muscle and vascular systems... inner mesoderm.

The inner world pushes this system towards the outside and is present from the inside in the intestinal gland system - which opens outwards. Entoderm.

With the first inner world, the lymphatic system pushes its way into the organism [to absorb what is produced by the inner world in the organism itself], and the system of inner perception.

With the second inner world, the system of unlocking the outward with the corresponding drainage system and the upwardly differentiated sensory system pushes forward.

When the cell is rejected, all nascent life = germ cell = this has all the nascent processes and is not viable because the cosmic processes can give less than it demands; it dies from excessive energy, which does not allow the outer mesoderm to completely close the skin and deposit bones, and the inner mesoderm to form organs. The sperm cell contains the predispositions for those processes that condition the opening up of the organs inwards in such a way that they can cope with the outside world; they kill the outer mesoderm to such an extent that it can reach the point of bone deposition and skin closure; the inner mesoderm in such a way that the organs harden around the [pulsating] substances and forming tissues.