essences
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According to this criterion, essences predict developments in entities that will occur throughout its lifespan.
A meditator visualizes or actualizes solar and lunar essences, lights, and deities within his/her body, which supposedly results in health and longevity, even xian 仙/仚/僊, "immortality".
Aristotle transformed Plato's forms into " formal causes ", the blueprints or essences of individual things.
Existences are not things; they do not themselves exist, they lend themselves to essences, which do not intrinsically have them.
Gin obtained simply by adding essences or flavourings to ethanol of agricultural origin is not distilled gin.
However similar two beings may be, their characteristics will be at most analogous, differing most importantly in essences.