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The plant kingdom as the fifth elementary kingdom

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	From a spiritual point of view, the plants we see today are only a mineralised image of what the plants will once become when the [[Earth (planet)\|Earth]] enters the fifth [[round]] of its [[Earth evolution\|evolution]]. All plants, [[animals]] and [[humans]] on earth today live only in the [[4th elementary kingdom]], the [[mineral kingdom]]. At the end of its physical evolution, the Earth will spiritualise itself and pass through a small [[Pralaya]]. Only then will the 5th ~~elemental~~ kingdom, the ~~actual~~ '''plant kingdom''', come into being. It will be a world of ceaseless shaping and reshaping, of permanent [[metamorphosis]]. The mineral kingdom banished into solid forms, which was redeemed in the fourth round, will then no longer exist.		From a spiritual point of view, the plants we see today are only a mineralised image of what the plants will once become when the [[Earth (planet)\|Earth]] enters the fifth [[round]] of its [[Earth evolution\|evolution]]. All plants, [[animals]] and [[humans]] on earth today live only in the [[4th elementary kingdom]], the [[mineral kingdom]]. At the end of its physical evolution, the Earth will spiritualise itself and pass through a small [[Pralaya]]. Only then will the '''5th elementary kingdom''', the true '''plant kingdom''', come into being. It will be a world of ceaseless shaping and reshaping, of permanent [[metamorphosis]]. The mineral kingdom banished into solid forms, which was redeemed in the fourth round, will then no longer exist.

	{{GZ\|During the fifth round there will be no more mineral kingdom.		{{GZ\|During the fifth round there will be no more mineral kingdom.

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	From a spiritual point of view, the plants we see today are only a mineralised image of what the plants will once become when the [[Earth (planet)\|Earth]] enters the fifth [[round]] of its [[Earth evolution\|evolution]]. All plants, [[animals]] and [[humans]] on earth today live only in the [[4th elementary kingdom]], the [[mineral kingdom]]. At the end of its physical evolution, the Earth will spiritualise itself and pass through a small [[Pralaya]]. Only then will the 5th elemental kingdom, the actual '''plant kingdom''', come into being. It will be a world of ~~permant~~ shaping and reshaping, of ~~never-ending~~ [[metamorphosis]]. The mineral kingdom ~~with its fixed~~ solid forms, which was redeemed in the fourth round, will then no longer exist.		From a spiritual point of view, the plants we see today are only a mineralised image of what the plants will once become when the [[Earth (planet)\|Earth]] enters the fifth [[round]] of its [[Earth evolution\|evolution]]. All plants, [[animals]] and [[humans]] on earth today live only in the [[4th elementary kingdom]], the [[mineral kingdom]]. At the end of its physical evolution, the Earth will spiritualise itself and pass through a small [[Pralaya]]. Only then will the 5th elemental kingdom, the actual '''plant kingdom''', come into being. It will be a world of ceaseless shaping and reshaping, of permanent [[metamorphosis]]. The mineral kingdom banished into solid forms, which was redeemed in the fourth round, will then no longer exist.

	{{GZ\|During the fifth round there will be no more mineral kingdom.		{{GZ\|During the fifth round there will be no more mineral kingdom.

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 Plants are living beings that have an independent [[etheric body]] in the [[physical world]], but no [[astral body]] and no individual [[I]] of their own. The astral body of plants is to be found in a higher world, in the [[astral world]]. And the common [[I]] of the plants is to be found as an essential spiritual reality in the [[lower devachan]].
 == The Metamorphosis of Plants ==
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 * [[Rudolf Steiner]]: ''Antworten der Geisteswissenschaft auf die großen Fragen des Daseins'', [[GA 60]] (1983), ISBN 3-7274-0600-3 {{Lectures|060}}
 * [[Rudolf Steiner]]: ''Natur- und Geistwesen – ihr Wirken in unserer sichtbaren Welt'', [[GA 98]] (1996), ISBN 3-7274-0980-0 {{Lectures|098}}
 * [[Rudolf Steiner]]: ''Die Beantwortung von Welt- und Lebensfragen durch Anthroposophie'', [[GA 108]] (1986), ISBN 3-7274-1081-7 {{Lectures|108}}

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	'''Plants''' ({{LaS\|Plantae), which include [[w:vascular plants\|vascular plants]] and [[w:moss\|moss]]es, form an independent [[kingdom of nature]] on [[Earth]] alongside [[mineral]]s, [[animal]]s and [[humans]]. The essential '''plant organs''' or '''basic organs'''<ref>The term was coined in 1850 by the German botanist [[w:Alexander Braun\|Alexander Braun]]: "Thus s h o ot, l e a f and r o o t appear to us as essentially different parts of the vegetal organism, as basic organs of the plant life based on the diversity of the directions of its formation. Their sure and sharp distinction is the foundation of morphology". (Alexander Braun: ''Betrachtungen über die Erscheinung der Verjüngung in der Natur, insbesondere in der Lebens- und Bildungsgeschichte der Pflanze''. Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1851, p. 120 [https://archive.org/details/betrachtungenbe00braugoog/page/n143 archive.org])</ref> of vascular plants are [[w:root\|root]], [[w:shoot\|shoot]] axis and [[w:leaf\|leaf]]. The entirety of the '''plant world''' or '''plant kingdom''' is also called '''flora''' after the goddess of blossom and spring known from [[w:Roman mythology\|Roman mythology]]. The [[w:vegetation\|vegetation]] in a given area is formed by the totality of the [[w:Plant community\|plant communities]] and plant formations (e.g. [[w:deciduous forest\|deciduous forest]], [[w:coniferous forest\|coniferous forest]], [[w:grassland\|grassland]], [[w:desert\|desert]], [[w:steppe\|steppe]], [[w:shrub-steppe\|shrub-steppe]], etc.) living there. It is shaped by factors such as climate, soil, rock and water balance, but also by the influences of animals, humans and fire.		'''Plants''' ({{LaS\|Plantae}}), which include [[w:vascular plants\|vascular plants]] and [[w:moss\|moss]]es, form an independent [[kingdom of nature]] on [[Earth]] alongside [[mineral]]s, [[animal]]s and [[humans]]. The essential '''plant organs''' or '''basic organs'''<ref>The term was coined in 1850 by the German botanist [[w:Alexander Braun\|Alexander Braun]]: "Thus s h o ot, l e a f and r o o t appear to us as essentially different parts of the vegetal organism, as basic organs of the plant life based on the diversity of the directions of its formation. Their sure and sharp distinction is the foundation of morphology". (Alexander Braun: ''Betrachtungen über die Erscheinung der Verjüngung in der Natur, insbesondere in der Lebens- und Bildungsgeschichte der Pflanze''. Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1851, p. 120 [https://archive.org/details/betrachtungenbe00braugoog/page/n143 archive.org])</ref> of vascular plants are [[w:root\|root]], [[w:shoot\|shoot]] axis and [[w:leaf\|leaf]]. The entirety of the '''plant world''' or '''plant kingdom''' is also called '''flora''' after the goddess of blossom and spring known from [[w:Roman mythology\|Roman mythology]]. The [[w:vegetation\|vegetation]] in a given area is formed by the totality of the [[w:Plant community\|plant communities]] and plant formations (e.g. [[w:deciduous forest\|deciduous forest]], [[w:coniferous forest\|coniferous forest]], [[w:grassland\|grassland]], [[w:desert\|desert]], [[w:steppe\|steppe]], [[w:shrub-steppe\|shrub-steppe]], etc.) living there. It is shaped by factors such as climate, soil, rock and water balance, but also by the influences of animals, humans and fire.

	Plants are living beings that have an independent [[etheric body]] in the [[physical world]], but no [[astral body]] and no individual [[I]] of their own. The astral body of plants is to be found in a higher world, in the [[astral world]]. And the common [[I]] of the plants is to be found as an essential spiritual reality in the [[lower devachan]].		Plants are living beings that have an independent [[etheric body]] in the [[physical world]], but no [[astral body]] and no individual [[I]] of their own. The astral body of plants is to be found in a higher world, in the [[astral world]]. And the common [[I]] of the plants is to be found as an essential spiritual reality in the [[lower devachan]].

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	[[File:Urpflanze.jpg\|thumb\|[[Rudolf Steiner]], "Urpflanze", watercolour 1924]]		[[File:Urpflanze.jpg\|thumb\|[[Rudolf Steiner]], "Urpflanze", watercolour 1924]]

	'''Plants''' ({{LaS\|Plantae), which include [[w:vascular plants\|vascular plants]] and [[w:moss\|moss]]es, form an independent [[kingdom of nature]] on [[Earth]] alongside [[mineral]]s, [[animal]]s and [[humans]]. The essential '''plant organs''' or '''basic organs'''<ref>The term was coined in 1850 by the German botanist [[w:Alexander Braun\|Alexander Braun]]: "Thus s h o ot, l e a f and r o o t appear to us as essentially different parts of the vegetal organism, as basic organs of the plant life based on the diversity of the directions of its formation. Their sure and sharp distinction is the foundation of morphology". (Alexander Braun: ''Betrachtungen über die Erscheinung der Verjüngung in der Natur, insbesondere in der Lebens- und Bildungsgeschichte der Pflanze''. Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1851, p. 120 [https://archive.org/details/betrachtungenbe00braugoog/page/n143 archive.org])</ref> of vascular plants are [[w:root\|root]], [[w:shoot\|shoot]] axis and [[w:leaf\|leaf]]. The entirety of the '''plant world''' or '''plant kingdom''' is also called '''flora''' after the goddess of blossom and spring known from [[w:Roman mythology\|Roman mythology]]. The [[w:vegetation\|vegetation]] in a given area is formed by the totality of the [[w:Plant community\|plant communities]] and plant formations (e.g. [[w:deciduous forest\|deciduous forest]], [[w:coniferous forest\|coniferous forest]], [[w:grassland\|grassland]], [[desert]], [[w:steppe\|steppe]], [[w:shrub-steppe\|shrub-steppe]], etc.) living there. It is shaped by factors such as climate, soil, rock and water balance, but also by the influences of animals, humans and fire.		'''Plants''' ({{LaS\|Plantae), which include [[w:vascular plants\|vascular plants]] and [[w:moss\|moss]]es, form an independent [[kingdom of nature]] on [[Earth]] alongside [[mineral]]s, [[animal]]s and [[humans]]. The essential '''plant organs''' or '''basic organs'''<ref>The term was coined in 1850 by the German botanist [[w:Alexander Braun\|Alexander Braun]]: "Thus s h o ot, l e a f and r o o t appear to us as essentially different parts of the vegetal organism, as basic organs of the plant life based on the diversity of the directions of its formation. Their sure and sharp distinction is the foundation of morphology". (Alexander Braun: ''Betrachtungen über die Erscheinung der Verjüngung in der Natur, insbesondere in der Lebens- und Bildungsgeschichte der Pflanze''. Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1851, p. 120 [https://archive.org/details/betrachtungenbe00braugoog/page/n143 archive.org])</ref> of vascular plants are [[w:root\|root]], [[w:shoot\|shoot]] axis and [[w:leaf\|leaf]]. The entirety of the '''plant world''' or '''plant kingdom''' is also called '''flora''' after the goddess of blossom and spring known from [[w:Roman mythology\|Roman mythology]]. The [[w:vegetation\|vegetation]] in a given area is formed by the totality of the [[w:Plant community\|plant communities]] and plant formations (e.g. [[w:deciduous forest\|deciduous forest]], [[w:coniferous forest\|coniferous forest]], [[w:grassland\|grassland]], [[w:desert\|desert]], [[w:steppe\|steppe]], [[w:shrub-steppe\|shrub-steppe]], etc.) living there. It is shaped by factors such as climate, soil, rock and water balance, but also by the influences of animals, humans and fire.

	Plants are living beings that have an independent [[etheric body]] in the [[physical world]], but no [[astral body]] and no individual [[I]] of their own. The astral body of plants is to be found in a higher world, in the [[astral world]]. And the common [[I]] of the plants is to be found as an essential spiritual reality in the [[lower devachan]].		Plants are living beings that have an independent [[etheric body]] in the [[physical world]], but no [[astral body]] and no individual [[I]] of their own. The astral body of plants is to be found in a higher world, in the [[astral world]]. And the common [[I]] of the plants is to be found as an essential spiritual reality in the [[lower devachan]].

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	'''Plants''', which include [[w:vascular plants\|vascular plants]] and [[w:moss\|moss]]es, form an independent [[kingdom of nature]] ~~('''Plantae''')~~ on [[Earth]] alongside [[mineral]]s, [[animal]]s and [[humans]]. The essential '''plant organs''' or '''basic organs'''<ref>The term was coined in 1850 by the German botanist [[w:Alexander Braun\|Alexander Braun]]: "Thus s h o ot, l e a f and r o o t appear to us as essentially different parts of the vegetal organism, as basic organs of the plant life based on the diversity of the directions of its formation. Their sure and sharp distinction is the foundation of morphology". (Alexander Braun: ''Betrachtungen über die Erscheinung der Verjüngung in der Natur, insbesondere in der Lebens- und Bildungsgeschichte der Pflanze''. Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1851, p. 120 [https://archive.org/details/betrachtungenbe00braugoog/page/n143 archive.org])</ref> of vascular plants are [[w:root\|root]], [[w:shoot\|shoot]] axis and [[w:leaf\|leaf]]. The entirety of the '''plant world''' or '''plant kingdom''' is also called '''flora''' after the goddess of blossom and spring known from [[w:Roman mythology\|Roman mythology]]. The [[w:vegetation\|vegetation]] in a given area is formed by the totality of the [[w:Plant community\|plant communities]] and plant formations (e.g. [[w:deciduous forest\|deciduous forest]], [[w:coniferous forest\|coniferous forest]], [[w:grassland\|grassland]], [[desert]], [[w:steppe\|steppe]], [[w:shrub-steppe\|shrub-steppe]], etc.) living there. It is shaped by factors such as climate, soil, rock and water balance, but also by the influences of animals, humans and fire.		'''Plants''' ({{LaS\|Plantae), which include [[w:vascular plants\|vascular plants]] and [[w:moss\|moss]]es, form an independent [[kingdom of nature]] on [[Earth]] alongside [[mineral]]s, [[animal]]s and [[humans]]. The essential '''plant organs''' or '''basic organs'''<ref>The term was coined in 1850 by the German botanist [[w:Alexander Braun\|Alexander Braun]]: "Thus s h o ot, l e a f and r o o t appear to us as essentially different parts of the vegetal organism, as basic organs of the plant life based on the diversity of the directions of its formation. Their sure and sharp distinction is the foundation of morphology". (Alexander Braun: ''Betrachtungen über die Erscheinung der Verjüngung in der Natur, insbesondere in der Lebens- und Bildungsgeschichte der Pflanze''. Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1851, p. 120 [https://archive.org/details/betrachtungenbe00braugoog/page/n143 archive.org])</ref> of vascular plants are [[w:root\|root]], [[w:shoot\|shoot]] axis and [[w:leaf\|leaf]]. The entirety of the '''plant world''' or '''plant kingdom''' is also called '''flora''' after the goddess of blossom and spring known from [[w:Roman mythology\|Roman mythology]]. The [[w:vegetation\|vegetation]] in a given area is formed by the totality of the [[w:Plant community\|plant communities]] and plant formations (e.g. [[w:deciduous forest\|deciduous forest]], [[w:coniferous forest\|coniferous forest]], [[w:grassland\|grassland]], [[desert]], [[w:steppe\|steppe]], [[w:shrub-steppe\|shrub-steppe]], etc.) living there. It is shaped by factors such as climate, soil, rock and water balance, but also by the influences of animals, humans and fire.

	Plants are living beings that have an independent [[etheric body]] in the [[physical world]], but no [[astral body]] and no individual [[I]] of their own. The astral body of plants is to be found in a higher world, in the [[astral world]]. And the common [[I]] of the plants is to be found as an essential spiritual reality in the [[lower devachan]].		Plants are living beings that have an independent [[etheric body]] in the [[physical world]], but no [[astral body]] and no individual [[I]] of their own. The astral body of plants is to be found in a higher world, in the [[astral world]]. And the common [[I]] of the plants is to be found as an essential spiritual reality in the [[lower devachan]].

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			[[File:Urpflanze.jpg\|thumb\|[[Rudolf Steiner]], "Urpflanze", watercolour 1924]]

	'''Plants''', which include [[w:vascular plants\|vascular plants]] and [[w:moss\|moss]]es, form an independent [[kingdom of nature]] ('''Plantae''') on [[Earth]] alongside [[mineral]]s, [[animal]]s and [[humans]]. The essential '''plant organs''' or '''basic organs'''<ref>The term was coined in 1850 by the German botanist [[w:Alexander Braun\|Alexander Braun]]: "Thus s h o ot, l e a f and r o o t appear to us as essentially different parts of the vegetal organism, as basic organs of the plant life based on the diversity of the directions of its formation. Their sure and sharp distinction is the foundation of morphology". (Alexander Braun: ''Betrachtungen über die Erscheinung der Verjüngung in der Natur, insbesondere in der Lebens- und Bildungsgeschichte der Pflanze''. Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1851, p. 120 [https://archive.org/details/betrachtungenbe00braugoog/page/n143 archive.org])</ref> of vascular plants are [[w:root\|root]], [[w:shoot\|shoot]] axis and [[w:leaf\|leaf]]. The entirety of the '''plant world''' or '''plant kingdom''' is also called '''flora''' after the goddess of blossom and spring known from [[w:Roman mythology\|Roman mythology]]. The [[w:vegetation\|vegetation]] in a given area is formed by the totality of the [[w:Plant community\|plant communities]] and plant formations (e.g. [[w:deciduous forest\|deciduous forest]], [[w:coniferous forest\|coniferous forest]], [[w:grassland\|grassland]], [[desert]], [[w:steppe\|steppe]], [[w:shrub-steppe\|shrub-steppe]], etc.) living there. It is shaped by factors such as climate, soil, rock and water balance, but also by the influences of animals, humans and fire.		'''Plants''', which include [[w:vascular plants\|vascular plants]] and [[w:moss\|moss]]es, form an independent [[kingdom of nature]] ('''Plantae''') on [[Earth]] alongside [[mineral]]s, [[animal]]s and [[humans]]. The essential '''plant organs''' or '''basic organs'''<ref>The term was coined in 1850 by the German botanist [[w:Alexander Braun\|Alexander Braun]]: "Thus s h o ot, l e a f and r o o t appear to us as essentially different parts of the vegetal organism, as basic organs of the plant life based on the diversity of the directions of its formation. Their sure and sharp distinction is the foundation of morphology". (Alexander Braun: ''Betrachtungen über die Erscheinung der Verjüngung in der Natur, insbesondere in der Lebens- und Bildungsgeschichte der Pflanze''. Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1851, p. 120 [https://archive.org/details/betrachtungenbe00braugoog/page/n143 archive.org])</ref> of vascular plants are [[w:root\|root]], [[w:shoot\|shoot]] axis and [[w:leaf\|leaf]]. The entirety of the '''plant world''' or '''plant kingdom''' is also called '''flora''' after the goddess of blossom and spring known from [[w:Roman mythology\|Roman mythology]]. The [[w:vegetation\|vegetation]] in a given area is formed by the totality of the [[w:Plant community\|plant communities]] and plant formations (e.g. [[w:deciduous forest\|deciduous forest]], [[w:coniferous forest\|coniferous forest]], [[w:grassland\|grassland]], [[desert]], [[w:steppe\|steppe]], [[w:shrub-steppe\|shrub-steppe]], etc.) living there. It is shaped by factors such as climate, soil, rock and water balance, but also by the influences of animals, humans and fire.

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	'''Plants''', which include [[w:vascular plants\|vascular plants]] and [[w:moss\|moss]]es, form an independent [[kingdom of nature]] on [[Earth]] alongside [[mineral]]s, [[animal]]s and [[humans]]. The essential '''plant organs''' or '''basic organs'''<ref>The term was coined in 1850 by the German botanist [[w:Alexander Braun\|Alexander Braun]]: "Thus s h o ot, l e a f and r o o t appear to us as essentially different parts of the vegetal organism, as basic organs of the plant life based on the diversity of the directions of its formation. Their sure and sharp distinction is the foundation of morphology". (Alexander Braun: ''Betrachtungen über die Erscheinung der Verjüngung in der Natur, insbesondere in der Lebens- und Bildungsgeschichte der Pflanze''. Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1851, p. 120 [https://archive.org/details/betrachtungenbe00braugoog/page/n143 archive.org])</ref> of vascular plants are [[w:root\|root]], [[w:shoot\|shoot]] axis and [[w:leaf\|leaf]]. The entirety of the '''plant world''' or '''plant kingdom''' is also called '''flora''' after the goddess of blossom and spring known from [[w:Roman mythology\|Roman mythology]]. The [[w:vegetation\|vegetation]] in a given area is formed by the totality of the [[w:Plant community\|plant communities]] and plant formations (e.g. deciduous forest, coniferous forest, grassland, desert, shrub steppe, etc.) living there. It is shaped by factors such as climate, soil, rock and water balance, but also by the influences of animals, humans and fire.		'''Plants''', which include [[w:vascular plants\|vascular plants]] and [[w:moss\|moss]]es, form an independent [[kingdom of nature]] ('''Plantae''') on [[Earth]] alongside [[mineral]]s, [[animal]]s and [[humans]]. The essential '''plant organs''' or '''basic organs'''<ref>The term was coined in 1850 by the German botanist [[w:Alexander Braun\|Alexander Braun]]: "Thus s h o ot, l e a f and r o o t appear to us as essentially different parts of the vegetal organism, as basic organs of the plant life based on the diversity of the directions of its formation. Their sure and sharp distinction is the foundation of morphology". (Alexander Braun: ''Betrachtungen über die Erscheinung der Verjüngung in der Natur, insbesondere in der Lebens- und Bildungsgeschichte der Pflanze''. Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1851, p. 120 [https://archive.org/details/betrachtungenbe00braugoog/page/n143 archive.org])</ref> of vascular plants are [[w:root\|root]], [[w:shoot\|shoot]] axis and [[w:leaf\|leaf]]. The entirety of the '''plant world''' or '''plant kingdom''' is also called '''flora''' after the goddess of blossom and spring known from [[w:Roman mythology\|Roman mythology]]. The [[w:vegetation\|vegetation]] in a given area is formed by the totality of the [[w:Plant community\|plant communities]] and plant formations (e.g. [[w:deciduous forest\|deciduous forest]], [[w:coniferous forest\|coniferous forest]], [[w:grassland\|grassland]], [[desert]], [[w:steppe\|steppe]], [[w:shrub-steppe\|shrub-steppe]], etc.) living there. It is shaped by factors such as climate, soil, rock and water balance, but also by the influences of animals, humans and fire.

	Plants are living beings that have an independent [[etheric body]] in the [[physical world]], but no [[astral body]] and no individual [[I]] of their own. The astral body of plants is to be found in a higher world, in the [[astral world]]. And the common [[I]] of the plants is to be found as an essential spiritual reality in the [[lower devachan]].		Plants are living beings that have an independent [[etheric body]] in the [[physical world]], but no [[astral body]] and no individual [[I]] of their own. The astral body of plants is to be found in a higher world, in the [[astral world]]. And the common [[I]] of the plants is to be found as an essential spiritual reality in the [[lower devachan]].

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	In his [[Metamorphosis Theory]], [[Goethe]] dealt specifically with the annual flowering plants, because it was in them that the plant-forming principle seemed to him to become most clearly apparent. They are all, Goethe recognised, built according to a uniform law. Behind the individual types such as the rose, the tulip, the violet, etc., there is a common archetype that encompasses them all and which Goethe calls the [[archetypal plant]] ({{DeS\|[[a:Urpflanze\|Urpflanze]]}}). There must be such a thing, he thinks, because otherwise how could we even recognise that they are all plants. In fact, when we recognise a plant as a plant, this archetypal plant is active in each of us. Only we do not normally become really aware of it, but only of the finished judgement: "That is a plant". We sleep through the actual living thought process that produces this judgement. But this is nothing other than the exact mental image of the original plant itself that is active in nature.		In his [[Metamorphosis Theory]], [[Goethe]] dealt specifically with the annual flowering plants, because it was in them that the plant-forming principle seemed to him to become most clearly apparent. They are all, Goethe recognised, built according to a uniform law. Behind the individual types such as the rose, the tulip, the violet, etc., there is a common archetype that encompasses them all and which Goethe calls the [[archetypal plant]] ({{DeS\|[[a:Urpflanze\|Urpflanze]]}}). There must be such a thing, he thinks, because otherwise how could we even recognise that they are all plants. In fact, when we recognise a plant as a plant, this archetypal plant is active in each of us. Only we do not normally become really aware of it, but only of the finished judgement: "That is a plant". We sleep through the actual living thought process that produces this judgement. But this is nothing other than the exact mental image of the original plant itself that is active in nature.

			== Clairvoyant observation of plants ==

			{{GZ\|When the clairvoyant looks at a plant as it takes root in the ground and puts on leaves and blossoms, he first has before him the plant, consisting of the physical body and the etheric body. The animal still has the astral body. Now you can raise the question: Do plants have nothing at all of an astral body? It would be wrong to assert this; it is only not within them as it is within the animal. When the clairvoyant consciousness looks at the plant, it sees the whole plant immersed in an astral cloud, a bright cloud that surrounds and envelops the plant, especially in those parts where it blossoms and bears fruit. So the astrality descends, as it were, upon the plant and envelops a part of it. The astral body of the plant is embedded in this astrality. And the peculiar thing about it is that if you think of the whole plant cover of the earth, you will find that the astral bodies of the plants adjoin one another and they form a whole by which the earth is enveloped as by physical air, by the plant astrality. If plants had only one etheric body, they would grow in such a way that they would only produce leaves, not blossoms, for the principle of the etheric body is repetition. If a repetition is to be completed and a conclusion formed, an astral body must be added.

			Thus you can observe in the human body itself how the etheric and the astral work together. Think of the successive rings of the spine. There ring is joined to ring. As long as this happens, it is mainly the etheric principle that works in the organism. Above, where the bony capsule of the skull enters, there the astral predominates, namely there the astral has the preponderance. So the principle of repetition is the principle of the etheric, and the principle of completion is that of the astral. The plant would not be completed at the top in the blossom if the astral of the plant nature did not sink into the etheric.

			If you follow a plant as it grows through the summer and then bears fruit in the autumn and then begins to wither, that is, when the blossom begins to die, then the astral draws back upwards from the plant again. This is particularly beautiful to observe. While the physical consciousness of man can take pleasure in the blossoming of the plants in spring, as field after field is covered with beautiful blossoms, there is another joy for the clairvoyant consciousness. When, towards autumn, the annual plants die, they shine and flit upwards like flitting figures that emerge as astral beings from the plants they have nourished throughout the summer. Here again is a fact that confronts us in the poetic image, which cannot be understood unless the clairvoyant consciousness can be traced in it. There we are already in an intimate field of astral consciousness. But among the peoples of prehistoric times, where such intimate clairvoyants existed, this seeing was also already present in the autumn. In the art of the clairvoyant people of India you will find the wonderful phenomenon of a butterfly or a bird flying out of a calyx. This is another example of how something rises in art which is based on clairvoyant consciousness from those distant times when clairvoyant consciousness either worked in the artists or was observed as a tradition.

			An astral body is therefore also present in the plant. The animal has a physical body, an etheric body and an astral body. We have found the I of the animal in the group soul. We have now spoken of the astral body of the plant, which, when the plant withers, we have characterised as a being that pulls itself out. Does the plant also have an I? Yes, there is the same thing for plants that we call the group soul in animals, only here the peculiarity prevails that all the plant-I' s of the plant are directed towards one single place on earth, namely towards the centre of the earth. It is as if the Earth were irradiated on all sides by the group-I' s of all the plants, and that is why the plant grows towards the Earth. But this I cannot be observed on the astral plane. There the clairvoyant finds the animal group souls. He also finds those double beings as we have seen them in the symbol of Michael with the dragon. He also finds what has now been described, but he would search in vain for the plant-egos on the astral plane. They are only in the higher, in the actual spiritual world, in the coarser, lower parts of the Devachan, in the Rupa Devachan. There are the actual plant-souls, the plant-iches, and they are all in one another in such a way that they are all in one another with their actual centre, united in the centre of the Earth.\|108\|23ff}}

			{{GZ\|For spiritual research, the Earth is a spiritual being, and thoughts and feelings awaken every spring and pass through the soul of our whole Earth throughout the summer. But the plant world, which is a part of our whole Earth organism, gives off the organs so that our Earth can think and feel. The plants are interwoven into the spirit of the Earth like our eyes or ears into the gears of our spirit. In spring a living, spirit-filled organism awakens, and in the plants we see something that drifts out of the face of our Earth, where it wants to begin to feel and think in some field. And just as everything in us human beings tends towards a self-aware ego, so it is also in the plant world. The whole plant world belongs to the earth. I have already said that a man would have to be close to madness who would not think, just as in us everything that is sensations, ideas, feelings, is directed towards our ego. Thus everything that the plants convey during the summer time is directed towards the centre of the earth, which is the I of the Earth. This is not merely to be said symbolically! Just as man has his I, so the Earth has its self-aware I. That is why all plants strive towards the centre of the earth. Therefore we must not look at the plants in isolation, but in alternation with the self-aware I of the Earth. What takes place as thoughts and sensations of the Earth is as sensations and conceptions live in us, what arises and flows in us at waking time, what lives astrally in us when we speak spirit-scientifically.\|60\|172f}}

	== The I of the plants ==		== The I of the plants ==

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	Plants are living beings that have an independent [[etheric body]] in the [[physical world]], but no [[astral body]] and no individual [[I]] of their own. The astral body of plants is to be found in a higher world, in the [[astral world]]. And the common [[I]] of the plants is to be found as an essential spiritual reality in the [[lower devachan]].		Plants are living beings that have an independent [[etheric body]] in the [[physical world]], but no [[astral body]] and no individual [[I]] of their own. The astral body of plants is to be found in a higher world, in the [[astral world]]. And the common [[I]] of the plants is to be found as an essential spiritual reality in the [[lower devachan]].

			== The Metamorphosis of Plants ==

			In his [[Metamorphosis Theory]], [[Goethe]] dealt specifically with the annual flowering plants, because it was in them that the plant-forming principle seemed to him to become most clearly apparent. They are all, Goethe recognised, built according to a uniform law. Behind the individual types such as the rose, the tulip, the violet, etc., there is a common archetype that encompasses them all and which Goethe calls the [[archetypal plant]] ({{DeS\|[[a:Urpflanze\|Urpflanze]]}}). There must be such a thing, he thinks, because otherwise how could we even recognise that they are all plants. In fact, when we recognise a plant as a plant, this archetypal plant is active in each of us. Only we do not normally become really aware of it, but only of the finished judgement: "That is a plant". We sleep through the actual living thought process that produces this judgement. But this is nothing other than the exact mental image of the original plant itself that is active in nature.

	== The I of the plants ==		== The I of the plants ==

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	From a spiritual point of view, the plants we see today are only a mineralised image of what the plants will once become when the [[Earth (planet)\|Earth]] enters the fifth [[round]] of its [[Earth evolution\|evolution]]. All plants, [[animals]] and [[humans]] on earth today live only in the [[4th elementary kingdom]], the [[mineral kingdom]]. At the end of its physical evolution, the Earth will spiritualise itself and pass through a small [[Pralaya]]. Only then will the 5th ~~elemental~~ kingdom, the ~~actual~~ '''plant kingdom''', come into being. It will be a world of ceaseless shaping and reshaping, of permanent [[metamorphosis]]. The mineral kingdom banished into solid forms, which was redeemed in the fourth round, will then no longer exist.		From a spiritual point of view, the plants we see today are only a mineralised image of what the plants will once become when the [[Earth (planet)\|Earth]] enters the fifth [[round]] of its [[Earth evolution\|evolution]]. All plants, [[animals]] and [[humans]] on earth today live only in the [[4th elementary kingdom]], the [[mineral kingdom]]. At the end of its physical evolution, the Earth will spiritualise itself and pass through a small [[Pralaya]]. Only then will the '''5th elementary kingdom''', the true '''plant kingdom''', come into being. It will be a world of ceaseless shaping and reshaping, of permanent [[metamorphosis]]. The mineral kingdom banished into solid forms, which was redeemed in the fourth round, will then no longer exist.

	{{GZ\|During the fifth round there will be no more mineral kingdom.		{{GZ\|During the fifth round there will be no more mineral kingdom.

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	From a spiritual point of view, the plants we see today are only a mineralised image of what the plants will once become when the [[Earth (planet)\|Earth]] enters the fifth [[round]] of its [[Earth evolution\|evolution]]. All plants, [[animals]] and [[humans]] on earth today live only in the [[4th elementary kingdom]], the [[mineral kingdom]]. At the end of its physical evolution, the Earth will spiritualise itself and pass through a small [[Pralaya]]. Only then will the 5th elemental kingdom, the actual '''plant kingdom''', come into being. It will be a world of ~~permant~~ shaping and reshaping, of ~~never-ending~~ [[metamorphosis]]. The mineral kingdom ~~with its fixed~~ solid forms, which was redeemed in the fourth round, will then no longer exist.		From a spiritual point of view, the plants we see today are only a mineralised image of what the plants will once become when the [[Earth (planet)\|Earth]] enters the fifth [[round]] of its [[Earth evolution\|evolution]]. All plants, [[animals]] and [[humans]] on earth today live only in the [[4th elementary kingdom]], the [[mineral kingdom]]. At the end of its physical evolution, the Earth will spiritualise itself and pass through a small [[Pralaya]]. Only then will the 5th elemental kingdom, the actual '''plant kingdom''', come into being. It will be a world of ceaseless shaping and reshaping, of permanent [[metamorphosis]]. The mineral kingdom banished into solid forms, which was redeemed in the fourth round, will then no longer exist.

	{{GZ\|During the fifth round there will be no more mineral kingdom.		{{GZ\|During the fifth round there will be no more mineral kingdom.