1. a
mest body, whether it belongs to the race of
man or the race of ants is yet but an animated vegetable.
Given a
theta being to guide it, it becomes part of a
composite such as Homo sapiens. By itself, the
body would live,
walk around, react, sleep, kill, and direct an
existence no
better than that of a
field mouse, or a
zombie. Put a
theta being over it and it becomes possessed of
ethics and
morals and direction and
goals and the
ability to
reason; it becomes this strange thing called Homo sapiens.
(HOM, p. 42)