106 THE BIOCOSMOS PRELIMINARY. 



might of the Psyche, which is implanted in 

 the living Physis, developing and directing 

 the same toward its purpose along the line 

 of evolutionary shapes. Accordingly we run 

 again upon that subtle psychical strain which 

 permeates all Nature, especially all living 

 Nature, and interconnects the same amid all 

 its separate multiplicity of forms a thread 

 of light (seen only by the unifying mind, how- 

 ever) stringing the microscopic cell together 

 with the highest organism. Of this psychical 

 activity we may extend our glance a little. 



VII. In the account of the process of the 

 cell previously given, three stages were out- 

 lined in a certain order. Now this division 

 with its order is not an accidental thing, is 

 not somewhat simply picked up by the way. 

 On the contrary, it has its deep correspon- 

 dence with the Self which grasps it and with 

 the Universe, of which it is an integral part, 

 even if small, and which is at last its creative 

 source. To repeat the process of the cell in 

 brief: first comes the nucleus (not the outer 

 protoplasmic mass, which biological books 

 usually start with), then the separation of 

 this nucleus within itself into new centers, 

 which in the third place divide also the proto- 

 plasmic mass and thus become embodied in it 

 as new-born cells. Given the cell as imme- 

 diate, it is forever separating itself, and re- 



