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7. The Vegetative
7. The Seventh Subject, or the Vegetative
In the vegetative there are specific
principles and rules with which plants act
in their own specific ways. Pepper acts in
its specific way, and so does a rose, and
a lily etc. The principles of the vegetative
are denser than those of the sensitive, and
the principles of the sensitive are denser
than those of the imaginative. Here is its
definition: the vegetative is the power
whose proper function is to vegetate. It
vegetates elemented things in its own
way, like the sensitive that senses
vegetated and elemented things. The
vegetative transubstantiates the
elementative into its species by way of
generation, and it lives, grows and feeds
on it. The vegetative dies when the
elementative runs out, just like a lamp
light dies when the oil runs out.
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