Ideas on the Affirmative Principle of Life and the Negative Principle of Death

and where the fatty acid has the upper hand, it becomes inflammable, and depending on the nature of its volatilization, detonating In this context, "detonating" refers to a rapid, explosive release of energy during combustion..

The fatty acid, or matter of heat matter of heat original: "Wärmematerie." This reflects the historical "caloric theory," which viewed heat as a physical fluid that could move between objects., has 5 spheres or circles of influence of its possible expansion against the matter of light original: "Lichtmaterie.", just as the matter of light has 5 spheres of penetrability into the matter of heat; thus, through action and counteraction, 5 substances are created.

These ratios of light to heat are actual penetrations, and one must conceive of light, as well as heat, as two central points, each of which expands into 5 circles or circumferences.

The outermost circle of light touches the innermost of heat, and so forth.

They relate numerically in the following order:

fatty acid, matter of heat, matter of light, spheres, circles of influence, central points, circles, circumferences, action, counteraction