24 MATHESIS. 



In everything, therefore, are two processes, one indi- 

 vidualizing, vitalizing, and one universalizing, destructive. 

 By the process of destruction, the finite thing seeks to 

 become the universe itself; by the vitalizing process, 

 however, the variety of the universe, and yet with that 

 to remain a Singular. That only is truly living which 

 represents the Eternal, and the whole multiplicity of the 

 universe in the Singular. 



92. The whole in the singular is called Individual. 

 The individual is an example of computation, which 

 admits only of being developed, from its comprehending 

 the whole of arithmetic in itself. Nothing individual 

 can persist eternally ; it must eternally move itself, con- 

 sequently fill up everything, displace everything, must 

 become itself the universe. 



MAN. 



93. Time consists of single acts ; i. e. the life or the 

 absolute act does not work with one stroke, but an 

 infinite number of times. All acts, therefore, taken 

 together, all finite things in time, are equal to the primary 

 act or the Eternal. 



94. There are two totalities, a primary totality OH , 

 and a secondary, or the summing up of all numbers + 

 n n ; the former the eternal, the latter the finite 

 totality, or the one the eternity, the other the infinity. 



95. The more a thing has adopted into itself of the 

 Manifold of the universe, by so much the more is it ani- 

 mated, by so much the more does it resemble the Eternal. 

 It is conceivable, for a finite or living essence to unite 

 all numbers or acts in itself, without, however, its being 

 the \ery Eternal. It would, however, be obviously the 

 most perfect finite essence, and, as a secondary totality, 

 be the likeness of the primitive ; the former the compound 

 universality, the latter the identical. 



96. Such an essence would be necessarily the highest 

 and last, whereunto creation could attain ; for more 

 than the universe cannot be represented in one thing. 



