43. Consciousness – Life – Form
Before the departure of the sun, the whole breathing process had a different purpose than in the period that followed. It consisted of absorbing and releasing heat from the environment and into it. One can say that the warmth that humans today produce within themselves through their blood circulation was then inhaled and exhaled by them from the environment. It was only after the exodus from the sun that the process was transformed in such a way that the air, after it has been taken in, generates warmth through its effect in the body. Thus, with breathing in the present form, the human body had become a generator of warmth within itself.
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