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the principal mass, upon which the digestive body has 

 been supported. 



976. No organism is conceivable without a digestive 

 process. 



3. AIR PROCESS, RESPIRATORY PROCESS. 



977. The action of the air finally settles down also 

 in mucus. It is that which sustains the constant hete- 

 rogeneity of the organic factors, the electrical tension. 

 The electrical tension has, however, oxydation for its 

 result. The organic process of electricity is thus at the ^ 

 same time a process of oxydation. It is called Respiratory 

 process. 



978. Without respiratory process, no organism is 

 conceivable. By its influence difference has been induced , ' f^ 

 in the chyle, and by this difference only does the latter 



become decomposable or serviceable for the process of 

 nutrition. 



979. The respiratory process is also present not im- 

 mediately in every part of the body, but only mediately. 

 It is the atmosphere of the body. 



980. The mutation, which the juices undergo through 

 the process of respiration, is none other than an emer- 

 gence from their state of indifference. Thereby each 

 point of the juice becomes polar towards every other ; all 

 are mutually attracted, all repelled, whereby a decisive 

 vortication originates. 



981. As every globule of sap or mucus is indifferent, 

 it has thus naturally an affinity for air. The air itself 

 is comprehended, like the water and the earth, in the 

 organism. And thus it may with full force be said ; 

 that the organism is elevated by respiration to the ele- 

 ment air, by digestion to the element water, by nutrition 

 to the element earth. So that respiratory process = 

 air-process, digestive process = water-process, and nu- 

 tritive process = earth-process. 



982. The first three organic processes are consequently 

 true synotypes of the planetary processes are planet- 

 forming processes in miniature in individuals. The fuada- 



