MOTION. '23 



motion ; consequently no thought without speech, and 

 vice versa. 



85. There is no thing which were without motion, 

 just as there is none without time. A Finite without 

 everlasting motion is a contradiction. All rest in the 

 world is only relative, is but a combined motion. There 

 is only rest in the Eternal, in the nothing of nature. 



86. The primaiy motion is only possible in a circle, 

 because it fills every thing. 



87. The motion of finite things by polarity may, in 

 a wider sense, be called life ; for life is motion in the 

 circle. Polarity, however, is a constant retrogression into 

 itself. Without life there is no being. Nothing is, 

 simply by virtue of being, e. g. by its mere presence ; 

 but everything of which a being can be declared, is only, 

 or manifests itself, by its polar motion or by life. Being 

 and life are inseparable ideas. While God acts, he 

 creates life. 



88. Life is nothing new, that came first into the world, 

 after it was created, but an Original, an idea, a moved 

 thought of God, the primary act itself with all its conse- 

 quences. 



89. There is in the universe no vital force of its own ; 

 the individual things lie not there some time and await 

 the polarizing breath, but they first become through the 

 breath of God. The Causa emstentice is life. 



90. There is nothing properly dead in the world ; that 

 only is dead which is not, only the nothing. Something 

 can only cease to live, when its motion ceases; this, 

 however, ceases only when deprived of its polarity ; the 

 polarity dissolved, however, is zero. Thus individual 

 things retreat into the Absolute, if they cease to live. 

 Everything in the world is endowed with life ; the world 

 itself is alive, and continues only, maintains itself, by 

 virtue of its life ; just as an organic body maintains itself, 

 only while it is constantly being generated anew by the 

 vital process. 



91. Every living thing is twofold in character. It is 

 one persistent in itself, and one immersed in the universe. 



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