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about preformation. In darkness -organism the water- 

 vesicle has been placed between earth and air, and thus 

 fettered to the earth; in light-organism, however, the 

 vesicle has been placed in the water and so freed from 

 the earth. 



1004. The planetary organism has, in accordance with 

 its situation and import, been bound to the earth. It 

 must originate like the metal in the earth, in the dark- 

 ness and, as it were, in a vein. But it is at the same 

 time a light-product ; it must rise from out of the earth 

 into the air and towards the light. It is a mucus, living 

 metallic vein, which elevates itself from out the earth 

 into the air. 



1005. This organism, which originates in the dark- 

 ness of the earth, and grows therefrom into the air so 

 as to meet the light, is plant. 



1006. The solar-organism is, in accordance with its 

 import, void of connexion with the earth ; like a planet 

 it revolves freely about the earth, and everywhere re- 

 ceives its image or likeness in the influence of all four 

 elements. 



1007. The organism, which, free from the earth, has 

 originated in water, or properly speaking, in the transpa- 

 rency, is animal. 



1008. The vegetable and animal are the only organic, 

 kingdoms. In both, nature has exhausted herself, and 

 has in the last kingdom, as in a mirror, been wholly re- 

 flected. They are together planet and sun, or thus 

 solar system. But since the animal comprehends all 

 elements in itself, so it contains also the plant, and is 

 therefore for itself vegetable and animal kingdom, or the 

 whole solar-system. 



1009. The plant hath no free system of motion, because 

 motion is wanting to it ; bound to the elements, by 

 these it is determined. The element of motion, the 

 aether, lies apart from it. It has only motion, if and 

 while the elements act upon, or solicit it, thereunto. 



1010. It moves itself only by an external or foreign 

 stimulus. If no foreign stimulus be present, it does not 



