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mass would be displayed as a light-organ ; being thus 

 engendered as such, it must forsake the vegetable forms, 

 and assume the universal form-susceptive primary form, 

 which is the form of the point. The floral mass, the 

 delicate petals of the corolla, the stamina and the pollen 

 are to be deemed the first onset or advance that is made 

 to nervous mass. The cellular tissue becomes delicate 

 and gradually resolves itself into granules. 



1807. Granular or point-mass is, however, an accu- 

 mulation of centres. The nervous mass is therefore, in 

 accordance with the conception of the Organic, a re- 

 peated, multiplied centre. The nervous mass has 

 therefore a light-function, i. e. the gentlest polarization 

 in the organism. Nervous mass is light -mass. 



1808. The animal substance has commenced with the 

 nervous mass ; thus with that which is the highest, and 

 which physiologists have deemed to be the ultimate mass. 

 The origin of the animal is from the nerves, and all ana- 

 tomical systems are only free evolutions or separations 

 from the nervous mass. The animal is naught but 

 nerve. What it is further or in addition, is obtained 

 elsewhere, or is a metamorphosis of nerves. The mucus 

 of the Infusoria, Polyps, and Medusae is nervous sub- 

 stance upon the lowest stage or degree, where the other 

 substances that are therein involved and merged, have 

 not as yet been perfected in an isolated manner. 



1809. The nervous mass indicates the absolute In- 

 different in an animal, and consequently that which is 

 polarizable by the gentlest aura or breath. 



Division of the Nervous Mass. 



1810. The nervous mass behaves itself also in its pro- 

 duction like the solar mass. As from this the planets 

 have through antagonism on the periphery, emancipated 

 themselves, so from the nervous mass have the ana- 

 tomical systems, which are subservient unto lower 

 purposes. 



1811. The development of the animal organs is a con- 

 stant division of the nervous mass, whereby it becomes 



