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tial energy in a seed takes the kinetic form, the form of growth, as soon as the seed is

sown and when it provokes the reaction of the earth.
As in every descending octave, the energy that issues from Absolute II, is of a

masculine nature; it penetrates the area where the action takes place, as in a sort of

matrix; and as the reaction it produces spreads all along the lateral octave; organic life

makes its appearance. It is always the manifestation of the same Law of Realization, to
which the Book of Revelation refers: behold, I stand at the door, and knock. If any man

hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he

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with me .
The masculine, vivifying energy which is the Love proceeding from Absolute II, is
plenteously projected all along the lateral octave, from the top to the bottom. But the

concrete result, the birth of organic life, appears only as a response to this appeal, as a

sort of reflux of feminine energy. Progressing towards the summit, up to the interval,

this energy re-establishes the primordial equilibrium which was broken in the void by
the perturbing action of the Love proceeding from Absolute II. To begin with, the

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feminine energy reaches the note FA, then climbs towards SOL and ends up at LA .
In other words, organic life on Earth ap-

2 Revelation, III, 20.
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For the moment, we will not consider the question of the filling up of the interval between
the FA and MI of the lateral octave, which takes place in the same manner as in the Great
Octave. We will come back to it in the Second Part of this book.