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type of the planet, but of it and the sun, or of the whole 

 universe. The higher organism is an universe in minia- 

 ture ; in the profoundest, truest sense of the word is it 

 small world, microcosm. 



1019. The planetary, terrestrial organisms are related 

 to the solar or cosmic, as the planet is to solar-system. 



1020. The cosmic organism has besides the systems of 

 nutrition, digestion, and respiration, those othe aether in 

 itself, and thus of the gravity, light and heat. These are 

 immaterial, spiritual processes, which produce no more 

 matters. 



1. Process of Gravity. 



1021. The organ of gravity is that of quiescence or 

 rest, the organ constituting the basis of the organic body, 

 or rather of the other aether-organs, the centralization. 



1022. It imparts form to the higher organism. 



1023. The quiescent, sustaining, form-imparting sys- 

 tem is the rigid earth-system, and appears as the osseous 

 system, 



2. Process of Heat. 



1024. As the heat is the motion of the aether, so is 

 there a system of motion in the organism. 



1025. The system, which has no other function to 

 perform than to move, is the muscular system. 



1026. The osseous system is related to the muscular 

 system as mass to motion, as Passive to Active. The 

 former maintains the form, the latter changes the same 

 exactly like gravitation and heat. 



3. Process of Light. 



1027. The light-system must be related to all other 

 spiritual systems and the three fundamental systems of 

 the organism, or to the simply organic systems as light is 

 to matter, being thus polarizing or dominant. 



1028. Now the domination of light consists in the sus- 

 tenance of polarity in all matter. The air itself is pre- 

 served in its duplicity only by light. All the points of 



