Man conceives life as spontaneously generated in matter at favorable temperatures and under favorable conditions.
Such concepts are not true concepts.
In searching for the life principle man is attempting to discover something corresponding to a germ which quickens lifeless matter.
Life is not a germ and no matter is lifeless.
Life is in and of all things from the beginning, always and forever.
Life has no beginning. Life has no ending.
Life is eternal.
Life is in and of all inorganic as well as all organic matter.
Life is in and of all of the elements and the atoms of the elements and the compounds of the elements.
Life is in and of the sun of the atom, the planets of the atom and the heavens surrounding the universe of the atom.
Life is the effect produced on the substance of Mind by the sequence of alternating electromagnetic pulsations which constitute the process of thinking. The progress of this effect is registered in integrating light and manifests itself in that orderly periodic phenomenon inherent in all matter and all things which man calls "growth."
All "growing" things are imbued with the life principle.
All things are "growing" things. All matter is evolving.
All matter is growing.
All matter is living.
Life is merely the registration, in matter, of states of motion of thinking Mind.
The substance of Mind has the appearance of many states of motion which man calls the "elements of matter."
The "elements of matter" do not vary in substance. They vary only in their states of motion.
All motion is periodic and evolutionary.
All motion is motion in equilibrium. No other motion is possible.
All motion has the appearance of being divided into opposites.
These opposites of motion shall henceforth be termed "motion-in-inertia" and "motion-in-opposition."
All that appearance which man calls matter is "motion-in-opposition."
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