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we can affirm simply from the phenomenon 

 that the roots are more gravitational and thus 

 cosmical, while the branches are more de- 

 gravitational and thus diacosmical. So we 

 have the right to think of the Cosmos and 

 Diacosmos, each with its own counter en- 

 ergy, as united and mediated in the life of 

 the Plant-Organism, which as alive belongs 

 to the Biocosmos. 



This symmetrical dualism of Plant-life we 

 may also notice in Animal-life and Earth-life 

 though in wholly ' different forms. For in- 

 stance the animal is divided lengthwise along 

 the so-called median line into two halves 

 which constitute what is known as its bi-lat- 

 eral symmetry ; each side of your body, right 

 and left, is symmetrically twinned to form a 

 rounded whole. The Plant-Organism has, 

 however, its symmetry between its two ends, 

 not between its two sides ; is bi-terminal, not 

 bi-lateral. Finally the Earth-Organism is 

 likewise ideally divided along a median line 

 which runs round the globe, and is known as 

 the Equator. But in this case the separation 

 is not terminal or lateral, but spherical; an- 

 alogously we may call the earth's double sym- 

 metry bi-spherical (or bi-hemispherical). The 

 main interest in the present case is to see the 

 three ultimate Life-forms, Plant, Animal, and 

 Earth, each dividing itself into symmetrical 



