Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/1348/en

With the swelling of the seed, it takes up water and the salts dissolved within it from the soil. The cosmic form of the plant enters into relationship with earthly substance. The seedling develops in a mercurial way out of this relationship. What lives in the seed as the cosmic form of the plant transforms itself into the earthly form of the sensuously-physically appearing plant. In the moment of taking up earthly substance — potassium, for example — this substance already estranges itself, in a first step, from its physical-earthly lawfulness. In the field of tension between the becoming-earthly of the plant's form on the one side, and the potassium that progressively estranges itself from its earthly nature within the organic process on the other, protein forms itself. In the primal substance of all life, cosmic form and earthly substance interpenetrate. In protein formation — at the vegetative point, for example — the potassium process presses and swells from below upward, and out of the protein the spirit builds up the gestalt of the plant, making use of sulphur as its mediator. In the formation of plant protein, one may see the turning-point at which the cosmic form of the plant circumscribes itself into the earthly, and the representative of the earthly — potassium — estranges itself toward its cosmic