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their energy in every atom of the organic body; so 

 must the mass of carbon be at the same time solid, 

 fluid, and aerial, oxydizable in every spot, and thus also 

 soft. Now a carbon mixed identically with water and V 

 air is Mucus. 



899. Mucus is oxydized, hydrated carbon; or expressed 

 in purely philosophical language, mucus is the univer- 

 sality of the minerals and elements, or the synthesis of 

 earth, salt, Inflammable, and ore in water and air. 



900. Every Organic has issued out of mucus, is naught 

 but mucus under different forms. Every Organic is 

 again soluble into mucus; by which naught else is 

 meant, than that the formed mucus becomes one devoid 

 of form. 



901. The primary mucus t out of which every thing or- 

 ganic has been created, is the sea-mucus. 



902. Mucus belongs originally and essentially to the * 

 sea, and has not been mixed with the latter through the 

 dissolution in it of putrefying substances. 



903. The sea-mucus has originated in the progress of 

 planetary development, like the calcareous earth has with 

 the carbon and like the sea-salt. As little as this could 

 have entered the sea originally through solution of rock- 

 salt ; so little could the mucus through the perishing oF^ 



~ammals and plants, for none of these were yet present, 

 but could be first developed, only with the production of 

 this mucus. 



904. The sea-mucus was originally generated through 

 the influence of light and by the denudation of the crude 

 masses, especially of the earths and salts, which was 

 thereby effected ; while with the metals and Inflammables 

 ranging opposite to these, the carbon thus became free, 

 and betook itself as carbonic acid to the water and air. 

 Thus also has jsalt been produced, 



905. The se^mucus, as well as the salt, is still pro- 

 duced by the light. Everything takes place through the 

 differentialization, or by the absolution of fixed poles on 

 the earth-element. Light shines upon the water, and it is 

 salted. Light shines upon the salted sea, and it lives. 



