The beautiful balance of endless repetition and endless variation, typical in almost all of nature, and typical of the greatest of the ancient artefacts, may be coming within our grasp once again.

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• Alternating repetition appears in nature where secondary repeating centers are coherent, e.g., waves and troughs, stripes and spaces.claim0.810
• Echoes of similar proportions and angles appear throughout any natural system due to uniform underlying processes, giving a consistent character to different parts.claim0.805
• The very same principles (positive space, alternating repetition, powerful centers) apply at every scale, from ornament to land and building structure.claim0.800
  Universality of the geometric principles across scales.
• If the evolution of the natural world follows a step-by-step process in which each step is structure-preserving, then the fifteen properties will appear more and more often, and the degree of life in the wholeness will increase steadily.hypothesis0.790
  Conditional statement linking smooth unfolding to the progressive emergence of the fifteen properties and increased life.
• The fifteen properties appear in nature as a direct result of repeated structure-preserving transformations unfolding the wholeness.claim0.789
  Interpretation that the geometric properties of living structure are not arbitrary but arise inevitably from the smooth unfolding process.
• Everything in nature is symmetrical unless there is a reason for it not to be.claim0.788
  A fundamental law about symmetry and necessity.
• The profound wholeness of living structure, almost every time it has been done most profoundly, has been done in a mystical‑religious context.claim0.787
  A sweeping historical observation that grounds the claim that mystical context is a near‑universal condition for the highest living structure.
• Nature is all that which follows from an unbroken sequence of unfoldings, each unfolding from the wholeness that preceded it.claim0.786