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potential actualised. For involution also, as for 

 Aristotle, the idea and the matter may be in a way 

 distinct in that the idea is not complete ; that is, the 

 purpose is not known to the self. 3 The involute, in 

 that case, is subject to disintegration. Matter and 

 form are one : the unit, or element, is matter to what 

 lies above it in the scale ; the complex, or integrand, 

 is form to what lies below it. This leads to a graded 

 series of entities necessitating the time-process for 

 their culmination. 



That which seems reality to us now, will lapse 

 again into appearance; truth into error; perfection 

 into imperfection; to integrate again into higher 

 forms. 



s Before the point was mooted "What is God?" 

 No savage man inquired "What am myself?" 



BROWNING. 



