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vanish or change, according as the polarizing magnet is 

 removed. Organisms change, because they are numbers, 

 thoughts of God. 



917. The process of change in organic individuals is 

 that of their destruction. 



918. But this destruction is as nothing for nature. 

 There originate again in the same moment other organisms 

 in other situations. The process that destroys the poles is 

 only one that effects their change. 



919. The world-organism only is eternal, and devoid 

 of change, with the exception of that which is within its 

 poles. It can itself change with no other, because it is 

 only one. 



920. No individual organism is eternal, because it is 

 only a changing pole of the world-organism. 



921. There is no constancy in the individualities. 

 Change only is persistent. 



9*22. The world only is persistent. Nothing in it is 

 constant. Were individuals not to perish, but live for 

 ever, the world must then die ; for the life of the world, 

 like every life, consists only in the change of poles. 

 Individuals could in no way therefore continue alive, if 

 the world were to remain alive, because this is only pos- 

 sible through change of the individuals, which are its 

 organs ; nor could they, were the world to die, because 

 the totality of individuate is the world itself. 



923. Death is no annihilation, but only a change. 

 One individual emerges out of another. Death is only 

 a transition to another life, not unto death. 



924. This transition from one life to another takes 

 place through the primary condition of the Organic, or 

 the mucus. 



925. If new individuals originate, they could not 

 therefore originate directly from others ; but they must 

 be redissolved into mucus. Every generation is a new 

 creation. 



b. FORM GLOBE. 



926. The organism is a metatype of the planet and 



