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"It could be said that on our globe at least, a living "macrocosm"*, a "biosphere", actively comprises all living things, includig the pseudomaterial substance of their bodies and the rhythms created from its life force, its "pneuma"."

*; "Of the natura naturanda type, a decadic macrocosm as oposed to the inert, hexadic macrocosm that was the natura naturata, the hyle of the Neoplatonist."

(Mathila Ghyka, "The golden number")