Tertium Organum

dead and mechanical. 
But sometimes we dimly feel the intense 
life 
which goes on in the 

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phenomena of nature, and sense a vivid emotionality manifesting itself in the 
phenomena of nature which, to us, is dead. I mean that behind the 
phenomena 
of visible manifestations there is felt the 
noumenon
of emotions. 
In 
electrical discharges,
in lightning, in thunder, in the gusts and howling
of the wind are felt flashes of sensory-nervous tremors of some gigantic 
organism. 
A peculiar mood for their own is felt in certain 
days.
There are days full of 
strange mysticism, days which have their own individual and unique 
consciousness, their own emotions, their own thoughts. One may almost talk 
with such days. And they tell you that they have lived a long long time, 
maybe for an eternity, and have known and seen many things. 
In the changing of season; in the yellow leaves of the autumn with their 
smell and the memories they bring; in the first snow dusting the fields and 
adding a peculiar freshness and sharpness to the air; in the waters of spring, in 
the warming sun and the awakening but still bare branches through which 
gleams the deep blue sky; in the white nights of the north and in the dark, 
humid and warm tropical nights spangled with stars - in all these are the 
thoughts, the feelings, the moods, or more correctly, the 
expression
of 
feelings, thoughts and moods of that mysterious being. Nature. 
There can be nothing dead or mechanical in Nature. If life and feeling exist 
at all, they must exist in everything. Life and intelligence constitute the world. 
On the contrary, if we look/row 
our side, 
from the side of phenomena, we 
must admit that every phenomenon, every object has a mind. 
A mountain, a tree, a river, the fish in the river, drops of water, rain, a 
plant, fire -
each separately must possess a mind of its own. 
Looking/row 
the other side -
the side of noumena - one is forced to say that 
everything and every phenomenon of our world is a manifestation in our 
section of some incomprehensible thinking and feeling belonging to another 
section and possessing 
there
functions which are incomprehensible for us. 
One intelligence 
there
is such and its function is such that it manifests itself 
here
in the form of a 
mountain, 
another in the form of a 
tree,
a third in the 
form 
of a fish,
and so on. 
Phenomena of our world are very different. If they are nothing but 
manifestations on our world of different intelligent beings, then these beings 
must also be 
very different. 
Between the mind of a 
mountain 
and that of a man there must be 
the same 
difference
as between a mountain and man. 

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Earlier we have admitted the possibility of different existences. We said that a house 
exists, and a man exists, and an idea exists - but they all exist differently. If we develop 
this thought further, we shall find a great many kinds of 
different existences. 
The fantasy of fairy tales, animating the whole world, endows mountains, rivers and 
forests with minds similar to the human. But this is just as untrue as a total denial of 
mind in a dead nature. Noumena are as different and as varied as phenomena which are 
their manifestations in our sphere. 
Every stone, every grain of sand, every planet has a