Anne Conway's posthumously published work arguing for a vitalist monism in which all creatures are composed of an intermediate spiritual substance capable of perfection and transformation.
All creatures exist on a continuous spectrum between God and gross matter; transformation between levels is possible; God, Christ, and creatures form a tripartite metaphysics reconciling Neoplatonism with Christian theology.
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