In the sorting out of the corn which the doves did, repaying a good deed, lies yet another, quite different symbolic meaning: the corn symbolizes diversity in unity, for even the single seed contains all the properties of the whole creature, and thus the corn is the original expression of bundled, diverse creative power in nature.

“The idea of maintaining most accurate orderliness on the level of creative force has to sink deep into the awareness of a future king; for, if within the small the order is disturbed or not upheld even only slightly, an uncalculable chaos which opposes nature is to be expected in the gross.