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bridge. To pass from the pre-inorganic to 

 the inorganic, and then from the inorganic to 

 the vital and finally from the vital to the 

 psychic are great flights which thought alone 

 as yet dares attempt. Such a fact would 

 seem to indicate that thought is itself pri- 

 mordial, antecedent to Nature which springs 

 from it as universal, or as the Universe. 



But we have now reached the conclusion of 

 the ordering of the three Life-forms as par- 

 ticularized separately and as united in their 

 one process Plant-life, Animal-life, and 

 Earth-life. This portion of our entire theme 

 we have designated as the Particularized Bio- 

 cosmos, which has wound up in evolving the 

 inner movement of the psychic individual, 

 who now has won the power of turning back 

 not only upon himself but also upon all his 

 past history, being in his evolution the total 

 generation of Earth-life, which he is next to 

 re-generate. That is, we are to see that the 

 Ego has evolved to the point of re-evolving 

 its own evolution, of which it is to become con- 

 scious. But this transition carries us over 

 into a new stage of the whole Biocosmos, 

 which now is able to look back at itself, and 

 trace its own past history. 



