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But if we can learn to stand in the expanse of the universe, in the meadow of heaven, studded with stars — not on the floor but on the ceiling — and feel can feel a kinship with it, as we otherwise do with the soil of the earth, then we begin, by transforming our earthly consciousness into a cosmic consciousness, to use our etheric body in the same way as we otherwise use our physical body. Only then will we be able to penetrate to the plant world with our understanding. For plants are not produced from the earth upwards, but are drawn out of the earth through the heavens.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"IX. 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Wenn wir bloße Erdenkinder sind, sehen wir zu den Pflanzen, die die Wiesen bedecken, hinunter. Wir erfreuen uns an ihnen, verstehen sie aber nicht, weil wir an die Schwere gebundene Erdenmenschen sind. Können wir aber ebenso, wie wir lernen als an die Schwere gebundene Erdenmenschen dazustehen, uns binden an die Weiten des Weltenalls, an die Wiese des Himmels, übersät von den Sternen — das ist jetzt nicht der Boden, sondern die Decke -, können wir damit uns verwandt fühlen, wie sonst mit dem Boden der Erde, dann beginnen wir, indem wir das Erdenbewußtsein verwandeln in ein Weltenbewußtsein, unseren Ätherleib in uns ebenso zu gebrauchen, wie wir sonst unseren physischen Leib gebrauchen. Dann allein sind wir fähig, an die Pflanzenwelt auch mit unserem Verständnisse heranzudringen. 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