Mutual assistance

Meaning

Agreement, assistance and support describe the cooperation of naturally allied parts. Leaves, fruit, wood, bark, branches and roots occupy their own places without displacing one another and share a common innate power. Their distinction is therefore an arrangement within a connected whole, not a war of contrary substances.

The same account allows more and less of a power in different parts without assigning them opposite essences. It distinguishes mutual help from the destructive or obstructive mixture of alien matter. The claim is a functional model of natural organization, not the assertion that every apparent difference disappears or that every mixture is beneficial.