of the tree, the two systems of distribution, the seen and the unseen,
meet and are united (see Fig. 15.6, p. 206).
In the human body, the arteries and veins narrow towards the
capillaries and enlarge towards the heart. The blood circulation is
managed by subtle differences in temperature and electric charge,
by energy density and energetic activity. There are two principal,
pulsating circulation systems; one to the lungs to renew oxygen and
discharge CO 2 and water; the other from the heart to the rest of the
body, delivering nutrients and oxygen to all parts of the body, on its
return collecting and transporting CO 2 and waste matter.
The tree, however, has no pulsating heart. The 'pulsators' respon-
sible for the movement of its sap are the Sun and the Moon. As the
world rotates, the direction of the Sun's and the Moon's attraction
fluctuates from above to below, through which a pulsation arises
between inhaling and exhaling. During the day, the sap draws the
energies up the tree ('inhaling'), while at night the energy with-
draws to the root system (exhaling).
As the sap rises from the ground level, gradually the sap-ducts
and capillaries begin to narrow and the coarser elements in the sap,
unable to rise further, are built into the tree's structure at the point
where their upward movement ceases. As the sap vessels get
smaller, the faster the sap streams both upwards and downwards
and the greater the homeopathic potential. Ultimately only the most
minute particles, which are hardly to be counted as matter, stream
up towards the crown or down to the roots with increasing spiral
gyration, dynamic and energetic effect.
The growth activity is at a maximum at the extremities of crown
and root zones, because all that is active here are the most highly
potentiated homeopathic resonances and amounts of barely struc-
tured matter. This upward or downward stream of energy also has
a nonmaterial, form-controlling aspect. At the outside edge of the
growth process, the tree crown, energy radiates into the environ-
ment, a process of life giving life, while at the root zone the energetic
polarity seems to be that of life seeking life.
A water molecule, when it reaches the crown, carries within it
the highly active resonances of the trace elements previously
taken up in the root zone. Refined to almost pure water again, with
ultra-high potency and trace element overtone resonances, it
arrives at the leaves' minute stomata. From these, it ascends into
the atmosphere towards its energy and temperature anomaly
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