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We note a difference between the elbow and the knee, there being no development in the elbow to correspond to the knee-cap, but in spite of this the similarity is sufficiently obvious. And so we give to the elbow the Sign and the name we gave to the knee,—Goat (Capricorn) and ♑. We allot to the lower arm the same Sign as we took for the leg, the Sign of Waterman (Aquarius) ♒, and the hands are denoted with the same Sign as we gave to the feet,—the Sign of Fishes (Pisces) ♓. And now if we take these members of man's nature all together, by themselves, comprising as they do the whole head and arms, we have a seven-membered man. That is an important perception. When you reflect on how this complete sevenfold man receives nourishment—the nourishment is of course brought up to it from the rest of man—then the idea will not be utterly grotesque if we imagine for a moment that this sevenfold man might receive its nourishment from without, like a plant which finds nourishment prepared for it in the world outside, and merely receives it and works upon it. We could quite well imagine that the same thing happened for this sevenfold man, and that it did not get whatever it needs for the maintenance of the brain and so forth from the other parts of man's nature, but instead directly from the external world. 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