- All history records the conquest of matter.
- The conquest of matter is life’s concern.
- Life is the matter’s host against death.
- The first telos of life is to preserve.
- The second telos of life is to propagate.
- The third telos of life is to overcome.
- The only enemy of life is death.
- Death has no character—death is emptiness.
- Death is ground—death is the void.