Let us start with the astral forces corresponding to the three cosmic bodies nearest to the earth – Moon, Mercury, Venus. Their activity can be discerned, for example, by watching the successive stages of plant development – the formation of the sap-bearing parts; the flower-substance already partly transformed into aeriform condition; finally the propagating processes which belong essentially to the sphere of activity of the warmth-ether.⁶ In the human organism we find the same sequence in the step-by-step transformation of nutriment right up to the moment when earthly form passes into chaos, as we learnt previously. The so-called enzyme action, ascribed by physiology to the various digestive juices, is in reality the product of an activity of the lower part of man’s astral organization, for which the relevant juices exercise the function of physical ‘carriers’. In the field of macrotelluric phenomena, the metamorphosis of the atmospheric moisture extending beyond the different cloud-stages up to the stage of pure warmth is an example of the activity of the same forces.