214 THE BIOCOSMOS PARTICULARIZED. 



about and grows in the opposite direction to- 

 ward its primal creative source, even if far 

 more removed in space and time. There can 

 be no doubt, however, that Sun's provident 

 gifts Heat, Light, and Electricity together- 

 nursed the first Earth-life, hatched the cos- 

 mic egg into the earliest living thing on our 

 planet. Now this process of origination from 

 sunlight all Plants have to re-enact, even if 

 some burrow in the soil. And the animal too 

 goes back to the same source. So the petty 

 bramble is not only born and suckled of the 

 Earth-Mother (in the roots), but is kept alive 

 and made to grow by its grandfather, Old Sol 

 (in the foliage). Stem, root and leaf involve 

 in their genesis the sun and the planet. Ver- 

 ily the totality of Nature is required to pro- 

 duce the smallest physical object, which in 

 turn reveals its far-off origin through its pro- 

 cess when this is rightly seen into. 



In such a way we behold the Plant Organ- 

 ism rounding itself out through its three con- 

 stitutive members into the movement of vege- 

 tal life. In fact we may observe this round of 

 stem, root, and foliage returning into itself 

 when the branch of the banyan tree drops 

 down to the earth, becoming root and stem 

 as well as branch. So the top genetically 

 bends around into its origin and re-creates 

 the whole Plant without unfolding into the 



