Its reverence for organization appears in the practice of embalming.

The bodies of men and of animals seemed to it to be divine.

Even vegetable organization had something sacred in it: "O holy nation," said the Roman satirist, "whose gods grow in gardens!" That plastic force of nature which appears in organic life and growth made up, in various forms, as we shall see in the proper place, the Egyptian Pantheon.

The life-force of nature became divided into the three groups of gods, the highest of which represented its largest generalizations.

Kneph, Neith, Sevech, Pascht, are symbols, according to Lepsius, of the World-Spirit, the World-Matter, Space and Time.