To actually come to terms with the exercises as intended, we have to delineate, and bring into awareness, where the actual inner life, or soul life, is to be found.
This exercise consist in perceiving the forces and beings involved in germination and growth, as well as perceiving their counterpart, the forces and beings involved in decaying.
Steiner makes a radical point: the cosmic divine wisdom (the Higher Hierarchies) actually allows or incorporates these lagging beings into the universal plan.