Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/1602/en

The plant, as a purely living being, has no incarnated soul-nature and no proper being of its own — and therefore also no nervous system, which is to be regarded as the earthly foundation of the astral body. Yet, turning one's gaze upon the nucleus of the plant cell, the question arises whether this might not be regarded as an evolutive preliminary stage toward the formation of such a foundation. The nuclear acids RNA and DNA show a high phosphorus content in the phosphoric acid residues of the nucleotides. Just as in animal and human being the nervous system extends, with fine branching, into the living tissue, so within the individual cell there are to be found outside the cell nucleus, in the cell plasma, organelles such as the ribosomes and mitochondria, which, as tiny formed body-formations, stand in relation to plasma and nucleus alike. The mitochondria contain, like the nucleus, chromosomal structures from which it may be inferred that they have epigenetic functions. That is to say, they are the bearers and mediators of impressions that the cytoplasm has received from the present workings of Earth, Sun and planets, as well as from the measures of care, manuring and breeding by the spirit and hand of the human being. These are newly acquired properties arising out of present-being. One must proceed from the assumption that such epigenetic impressions accomplish themselves in the plants with every year of vegetation. In order to preserve the fruit of this "presentification" of the earthly-cosmic workings in the course of the year — for instance that of the preparation manuring — self-propagation is recommended, up to and including the breeding of farm-own varieties.