How to call It?

Questioning: to be body in the world

Is there a single living organism that is able to perfect itself indefinitely?

Even these royal trees, that can live and continue to grow and strengthen through more than a thousand years and even longer if no major interference occurs, do not constitute an example of self-perfecting within the whole: for, although they increase in size and may seed entire forests, neither their complexity nor their adaptability develop. And what of those crystals which silently grow within the secret core of the rock through perhaps millions of our years? Yet does one not find, intrinsic to every material form – to every form born of Matter – and animating it, an urge towards self- perfection? Be it a mountain, a drop of water, a gymnast or a robber, every material existence – every existence issuing from Matter itself – aspires and yearns to its own perfection. The whole prairie as well as each of its blades of grass and butter-cups, are stirred by the thrust to their perfect expression, the truth of their own nature. But it is a perfection that, given the appropriate conditions, can be naturally attained, as its model is already inscribed; it is not an indefinite self-perfecting that would be an actual discovery and unprecedented becoming. Until now in the natural world of the Earth, the perfection of each form represents its apogee, which is followed by its decline: the form wilts, decays, perishes and dissolves.

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