899. Mucus is oxydized, hydrated carbon; or expressed in purely philosophical language, mucus is the universality of the minerals and elements, or the synthesis of earth, salt, Inflammable, and ore in water and air. 900. Every Organic has issued out of mucus, is naught but mucus under different forms. Every Organic is again soluble into mucus; by which naught else is meant, than that the formed mucus becomes one devoid of form. 901. _The primary mucus, out of which every thing organic has been created, is the sea-mucus._ 902. Mucus belongs originally and essentially to the sea, and has not been mixed with the latter through the dissolution in it of putrefying substances. 903. The sea-mucus has originated in the progress of planetary development, like the calcareous earth has with the carbon and like the sea-salt. As little as this could have entered the sea originally through solution of rock-salt; so little could the mucus through the perishing of animals and plants, for none of these were yet present, but could be first developed, only with the production of this mucus. 904. The sea-mucus was originally generated through the influence of light and by the denudation of the crude masses, especially of the earths and salts, which was thereby effected; while with the metals and Inflammables ranging opposite to these, the carbon thus became free, and betook itself as carbonic acid to the water and air. Thus also has salt been produced. 905. The sea-mucus, as well as the salt, is still produced by the light. Everything takes place through the differentialization, or by the absolution of fixed poles on the earth-element. _Light shines upon the water, and it is salted. Light shines upon the salted sea, and it lives._ 906. All life is from the sea, none from the continent. 907. All mucus is endowed with life. 908. The whole sea is alive. It is a fluctuating, ever self-elevating and ever self-depressing organism. 909. Where the sea-organism by self-elevation succeeds in attaining unto form, there issues forth from it a higher organism. Love arose out of the sea-foam. 910. The primary mucus was and is still generated in those very parts of the sea where the water is in contact with earth and air, and thus upon the shores. 911. The first creation of the Organic took place, where the first mountain summits projected out of the water; and thus indeed without doubt in India, if the Himalaya be the highest mountain. 912. The first organic forms, whether plants or animals, emerged from the shallow parts of the sea. 913. _Man also is a child of the warm and shallow parts of the sea in the neighbourhood of the land._