Beatification & Invisible living creature

[Terrance]

living Creature? Hum? 

Exactly as the creatures microscopic upon your skin believe you to be a
Planet. 

M&D602

I now have a theory that our existence, as a whole, is an organism that
is very old--a globular thing within a starry shell, afloat in a
super-existence in which there may be countless other organisms--and
that we, as cells in its composition, partake of, and are ruled by, its
permeating
senility. The theologians have recognized that the ideal is the
imitation of God. If we be a part of such an organic thing, this thing
is God to us, as I am God to the cells that compose me. When I see
myself, and cats,
and dogs losing irregularities of conduct and approaching the
irreproachable,
with advancing age, I see that what is ennobling us is senility. I
conclude
that the virtues, the austerities, the proprieties are ideal in our
existence,
because they are imitations of the state of a whole existence, which is
very
old, good, and beyond reproach. The ideal state is meekness, or
humility, or the semi-invalid state of the old. Year after year I am
becoming nobler and nobler. If I can live to be decrepit enough, I shall
be a saint.

 - Fort