The Pharaonic mentality is based on the fact that every phenomenon is a reactive effect. The cause is absorbed by a resistance of identical nature and gives an effect through the reaction of this resistance. A cause never produces a direct effect since it remains an abstraction as long as resistance is lacking. Incomprehension of this idea is the basis of error in Western mentality. Any complementing is negation, or death.
Reaction is life.
The second crossing, the vital phenomenon, is life. An example is the gesture of offering. This is the Western thought process. He does not give him anything. The soldier offers his life to his country.