1. EARTH-PROCESS, NUTRITIVE PROCESS.
964. The magnetic earth-process is virtually the formative; and in organic bodies is called the nutrient process.
965. The process of nutrition is the principal process in the organic world. Its product or its basis is the fundamental mass of the body itself. As crystal and the process of crystallization are related to each other, so are the body and the process of nutrition.
966. The process of nutrition is the sustaining, and proper fundamental process of the organism.
967. It is present entire and indivisible in every part of the body. Whencesoever it is ablated or withdrawn, there is death.
968. It operates according to the laws of crystallization.
969. Its very forms are crystals modified by the organic mass or, what amounts to the same, by the other processes combined therewith. The organic body is an accumulation of an infinity of (organic) crystals (cells).
970. In the planetary process of formation, which is a process of crystallization, the organism is continually comprehended. It is the planetary body ever becoming; the latter is an organic body, which has ceased to become.
2. WATER-PROCESS, DIGESTIVE PROCESS.
971. Another action, that helps to constitute the organic body, is the chemism, which is not only the process of liquefaction, but the process also of the formation or creation of new organic matter. It is known to us under the name of Digestive process.