12 THE BIOCOSMOS GENERAL INTRODUCTION. 



rest, even down to the most minute, to the 

 microscopic cell. Accordingly we say that 

 the Universe has three divisions primordially 

 -God, Nature, Man, and that these, being 

 psychical, form the process of the All-Self, 

 who creates the human Self, and indeed all 

 created things, in his image more or less ap- 

 proximate. It is necessary to designate this 

 supreme originative process of the Universe 

 by a special term: we call it the Pampsy- 

 chosis. 



To formulate this absolute process of the 

 one Great Totality, fountain-head of all cre- 

 ation, has been the work of the loftiest spirits 

 of mankind for instance the founders of the 

 world's dominating Religions and Philoso- 

 phies. These have sought in a great variety 

 of forms and vocables to bring home to man 

 this ultimate creative process of the All. The 

 result is, we have the religious Norm and the 

 philosophical Norm, to which the time seems 

 to be adding a third, the psychological Norm 

 all of which have one and the same content 

 -the Universe (see further elaboration of 

 this subject in our Ancient European Philos- 

 ophy, Introduction). 



In the present book, Nature is treated psy- 

 chically. As the second stage or phase of the 

 All-Self (Pampsychosis), it bears everywhere 

 in its divisions large and small, the impress 



