ABSTRACT
I died as plant and rose as animal, I died as animal and I was Man… Yet once more I shall die as Man, to soar With angels blest; but even from angelhood I must pass on: all except God doth perish.
Rumi, Mathnawi, III, 3901 (13thcentury) 4 Thou shalt change into a living Ba [animation] and surely he will have power
to obtain bread and water and air; and thou shalt take shape as a heron or swallow, as a falcon or a bittern, whichever thou pleasest.
