31. Life, Revelation, Wisdom, Love

Thus, the work of the I complements the work of the life of the world in reverse order, just as the ascent is also a reverse repetition of the descent. During the ascent, it begins again from the inside, where it left off, but it begins its own activity in the realm and in the body that were formed first. In its perfection, it works in the realms that have been created alongside it in the order in which they were created – because what was created first has become the most perfect. The arc that the realms describe is therefore as follows: predisposed mineral realm human realm completed predisposed plant realm animal realm predisposed animal realm plant realm completed predisposed human realm completed the mineral realm