I have noticed a first elementary
psychic vibration in plant life, and truly the blossoming of
a flower is the first sign of the psychic presence. The psychic individualises
itself only in man, but it existed before him; only it is not the same kind
of individualisation, it is more
fluid and manifests as force or as consciousness rather than as individuality.
Take the rose, for example, its great perfection of form, colour and smell
expresses an aspiration and is
a psychic gift. Look at a rose opening in the morning with the first contact
of the sun-it is a magnificent self-giving aspiration.