Death is the Beginning of Life, and Life the Beginning of Death: Out of a Center Which is neither Dead nor Alive

"What was seed becomes plant, what was plant becomes grain, what was grain bread, from it amniotic fluid, from it seed, from it embryo, from it man, from it corpse, from it earth, from it stone, and it can become all natural forms. Thus is matter, just as the substantial form of the things, the soul, is indestructible: aptitude of all aptitudes, reality of all realities, life of all lives, essence of all essences."