“There is still another system of
classification,” he said, “which you also ought to understand. This is a
classification in an altogether different ratio of octaves. The first
classification by ‘food,’ ‘air,’ and medium definitely refers to ‘living beings’
as we know them, including plants, that is to say, to individuals. The other
classification of which I shall now speak leads us far beyond the limits of
what we call ‘living beings’ both upwards, higher than living beings, as well
as downwards, lower than living beings, and it deals not with individuals but
with classes in a very wide sense. Above all this classification shows that
there are no jumps whatever in nature. In nature everything is connected and
everything is alive. The diagram of this classification is called the ‘Diagram
of Everything Living.’
“According to this diagram every kind of
creature, every degree of being, is defined by
what serves as food for this kind of creature or being of a given level and for
what they themselves serve as food, because in the cosmic order each class
of creature feeds on a definite class of lower creature and is food for a
definite class of higher creatures.”
Excerpt taken from In Search of the Miraculous by P. D. Ouspensky, pub. Paul H. Crompton Ltd, 2004, p 322.
Excerpt taken from In Search of the Miraculous by P. D. Ouspensky, pub. Paul H. Crompton Ltd, 2004, p 322.
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