The Ideal Food
Chapter 12
"The thought process from below" and "the thought process from above"
In order to show the true relations between the terrestrial human being and animal and vegetable food, it will now be necessary to lead the reader through some cosmic or occult analyses.
These can perhaps be somewhat difficult for the untrained researcher, but, for him or her who has the ability, energy and interest to really think them through, they will be irrefutable proof of the unshakable harmony of my book with the absolute facts or the true circumstances.
It is thus not my task to demonstrate the above-mentioned sources of nourishment in the form of chemical analyses or in modern, current terms such as "vitamins", "calories", "acids" and so on.
For the spreading of that form of knowledge mankind already has a whole host of competent scientists.
It is likewise not my mission to write a series of new vegetarian recipe books.
The world is beginning to be well supplied with these too.
But while modern scientific research as well as recipe books are based on and constitute a result of "the thought process from below", the information that I have to give is a result of "the thought process from above" and thus expresses the highest occult analysis of the above-mentioned two sources of nutrition, which means the analyses of the living life itself in these sources of nutrition.
By "the thought process from above" is to be understood the highest sensory perception or experience through "the holy spirit" where everything is perceived from the "aspect of life", "the thought process from below" constituting merely the experience through the coarse physical senses where everything is seen only from the "aspect of substance".
Modern science is, for the time being, based on the latter form of sensory perception, but evolution will result in its later coming to see things from "the aspect of life" too, thus becoming elevated above the many illusions and pitfalls that sensory perception from "the aspect of substance" represents.
I will now go on to demonstrate or show things from "the aspect of life", thereby giving the unshakable foundation on which all science of nutrition and authorship of recipe books ought to rest.