coursings and transformations through myriads of images and forms.
Having perfected its journey in the mineral kingdom, it has ascended to
the vegetable kingdom; and in the vegetable kingdom it has again had
journeys and transformations through myriads of conditions. Having
accomplished its functions in the vegetable kingdom, the cellular element
ascends to the animal kingdom.

In the animal kingdom again it goes through the composition of myriads of
images, and then we have it in the human kingdom. In the human kingdom
likewise it has its transformations and coursings through multitudes of
forms. In short, this single primordial atom has had its great journeys
through every stage of life, and in every stage it was endowed with a
special and particular virtue or characteristic.

Consequently, the great divine philosophers have had the following
epigram: All things are involved in all things. For every single
phenomenon has enjoyed the postulates of God, and in every form of these
infinite electrons it has had its characteristics of perfection.

Thus this flower once upon a time was of the soil. The animal eats the
flower or its fruit, and it thereby ascends to the animal kingdom. Man
eats the meat of the animal, and there you have its ascent into the human
kingdom, because all phenomena are divided into that which eats and that
which is eaten. Therefore, every primordial atom of these atoms, singly
and indivisible, has had its coursings throughout all the sentient
creation, going constantly into the aggregation of the various elements.
Hence do you have the conservation of energy and the infinity of
phenomena, the indestructibility of phenomena, changeless and immutable,
because life cannot suffer annihilation but only change.

The apparent annihilation is this: that the form, the outward image, goes
through all these changes and transformations. Let us again take the
example of this flower. The flower is indestructible. The only thing that
we can see, this outer form, is indeed destroyed, but the elements, the
indivisible elements which have gone into the composition of this flower
are eternal and changeless. Therefore the realities of all phenomena are
immutable. Extinction or mortality is nothing but the transformation of
pictures and images, so to speak--the reality back of these images is
eternal. And every reality of the realities is one of the bounties of God.

Some people believe that the divinity of God had