Cause Principle Unity

A general account of bonding
Anyone who has the power to bind must to some degree have a universal
theory of things in order to be able to bind humans (who are, indeed, the
culmination of all things). As we have said elsewhere, in this highest
species, it is possible to see, and especially to rank, the species of all things.
For example, some humans are like fish, others like birds, others like
snakes, and still others like reptiles, whether it be in the latters’ species or
in their genera. Also, different people have different functions, habits, purposes,
inclinations, understandings and eras. And so, as was imagined by
Proteus and Achelous, the same material object can be changed into
different forms and figures, such that to bind them continuously one
should always use differing kinds of knots. In addition to this, let us notice
the conditions of human life: being young and then old; being of a moderate
station, or noble, or rich, or powerful, or happy, or, indeed, even envious
and ambitious; or being a soldier or a merchant, or one of the many
other officials who play a role in different ways in the administration of a
state, and thus who must be bonded to each other because they function as
agents and instruments of the state. In effect, it seems that nothing can fall
outside of an examination of civil life when it is considered in this way
(whether it be bonding, or being bonded, or the bonds themselves, or their
circumstances). This is the reason why we have assembled the following
considerations, which are entitled A general account of bonding.
On bonding agents in general
1. Types of bonding agents. Taken universally, bonding agents are God,
demons, souls, animals, nature, chance, luck and, finally, fate. This universal
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