when one loses material attractions, and this disgrace of which old age complains is a necessary effect of the justice of God, who takes pleasure in harmony and consequently in the union of the two principles.
The neutral mode governs all transitions and since love is the hyper-neutral passion it is through love that the principal transitions must occur, as witnessed by those of the animal career, of which the two most remarkable variants are the advent of puberty or love, and the decline of procreative functions.
Transitions of all degrees fall under the neutral mode; for example childhood and old age, birth and death, are neutral periods or acts in the movement. A civilized person will object that death is not a neutral matter for us; this is to argue as a materialist. Birth and death are two transitions to future and past immortality.
Unity, transitions and the exception.
...[Translatation note, text here is missing from all sources, including original manuscript] This rule of unity which is that of Harmony is unknown to our Philosophers, and it is for this reason that in all their theories they arrive only at the antipode of the views of nature, whose first law they trample underfoot: the contentment of all, or general development of attraction.
Now the totality in the rule of Harmony is composed of 7/8, the exception or transition being of necessity; one has the whole harmonious when one has 7 out of 8 and there would be anti-