Spirit and body differ not essentially but gradually: body is nothing but fixed and condensed spirit, and spirit nothing but subtle and volatile body. There is no such thing in nature as dead matter — the least dust, the least sand, is alive in some degree, and capable of all kinds of feeling and knowledge.
All creatures are capable of being changed into one another, and every creature can become more and more spiritual to infinity; for in the infinite goodness of God nothing stands still, and no creature can fall so far that it may not rise again.
How could dead matter proceed from a God who is infinite life and infinite love? Like produces like: the creatures of a living God are living.
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