Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/829/en

already visible in its organs, laid down in the embryo. In the embryo is revealed «the cosmic [archetypal image; added by the author], that lives as the form of the plant in the seed». The nutrient tissue of the starchy endosperm, which largely fills the volume of the seed, derives from the mother plant and is so constituted in kind and quantity that the plant — in repetition of the living-watery Moon condition — can develop only as far as the seedling, not beyond that into the highly differentiated, earth-born cereal plant. For this, two things are required: the greening of the upward-striving stem and leaves under the light of the presently in-raying sun, and the growing-together of the root with the earth. As is generally the case with the higher plants, so also with the cereals: the embryo, in longitudinal section, shows a threefold form already prefigured in its organisation — the root pole, the shoot pole with its vegetative apex, and, forming the middle, the germinal node, which holds within itself the force of uprighting.