Our inner organs mirror the outside world

 

Rudolf Steiner:  "This material world is mirrored in the human being. The world we experience within is more or less an abstraction of an inner image permeated by experiences and will impulses of the outer material world, so that when we move from the material outer world to the soul-spiritual, we come to nothing but imagery. Let's hold on to this firmly: outwardly there's the totality of material phenomena, which we are looking at in a phenomenological sense — and within, the soul-spiritual which has a particular abstract character, a pictorial character. If one approaches the observation with an anthroposophical view that the spiritual lies at the basis of the outer material world, the spirit which works in the movement of the stars, in the creation of minerals, plants, and animals, then one enters into the spiritual creation of the outer world; one gets to know this through imagination, inspiration, and intuition; then this is also an inner mirror image of the human being. But what is this inner mirror image of the human being? It is our physical organs. They respond to me in what I've learnt to know as the nature of the Sun, the nature of the Moon, minerals, plants, animals, and so on; this is how the inner organs answer me. I only get to know my inner human organism when I get to know the outer things of the world. The material world outside mirrors in my soul-spiritual; the soul-spiritual world outside reflects itself in the form of lungs, liver, heart, and so on. The inner organs are, when you look at them, in the same relationship to the spiritual outer world as the relationship of our thoughts and experiences are to the material outer world."

Source: March 6, 1922. GA 81