Eleventh Lecture

If you study it more closely, you will find that when the tree develops such an outgrowth, the following occurs: somehow the physical body of the tree is inhibited. There is not enough physical matter everywhere to keep up with the etheric body in its growth power. The physical body lags behind. The etheric body, which otherwise strives to centrifugalize the physical matter out into the universe, is, in a sense, left alone for a certain part when the first growth occurs here. (A drawing is made.) Too little physical matter passes through, or at least matter that has too little physical power. The result of this is that the etheric body turns downwards towards the lower part of the tree, which is equipped with greater force. So it is essentially the etheric body that becomes strong again.