Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/243/en

the genome preserves this former imprinting. What came into being through an artistic act is made today the object of arbitrary manipulation. The great plant breeders of primordial Persia were sculptors of the formative forces of the living. They had the capacity to reshape the naturally given type of a plant species — in form and in fruit — into a food plant. Under the guidance of the Mysteries, their ability consisted in bringing the forces leading to fructification and maturity to efficacy in all the organs of the plant: in the root (e.g. carrot), in the stem (e.g. kohlrabi), in the bud (e.g. Brussels sprouts), in the leaf (e.g. lettuce, spinach), in the blossom (fruit trees), in the seed (cereals). In the case of cereals, for instance, the reproductive power is reduced in comparison to the kindred wild grasses — measured by the number of seeds — in favour of an enhanced nutritive force of the full-swelling flour-bodies (endosperm) of the grain kernels. Yet this fructification process permeates the whole cereal plant, recognisable in the thickening and colouring of the stem. Here too it holds that the embryonic flexibility of the formative forces of the plant is redirected into fruit formation and maintained there for a longer time. The emergence of the food plants named falls before the beginning of the third millennium, and thereby into the time of the cultural circles given their impulse by the ancient Persians.