Questions Regarding Nutrition in the Light of Spiritual Science

But in a certain sense, Spiritual Science can claim this statement for itself, only in a slightly different way than the materialists mean it, and in two different ways. First of all, we have often emphasized that for Spiritual Science, everything around us is an expression of the spiritual. A mineral, a plant, or anything else in our environment is only material on the outside. Like a human limb, it is the expression, the gesture of the spirit. Behind everything material there is something spiritual, even behind food. With food, we not only take in what is materially before our eyes, but we also eat what is spiritual behind it. Through nutrition, we enter into a relationship with this or that spiritual entity behind this or that material substrate. This is a very superficial characteristic. But anyone who grasps this will, in a certain sense, be able to agree with the materialistic statement: Man is what he eats. However, the spiritual process must be understood alongside the material process.