as yet undifferentiated Life-in-itself inherent in, and forming one with, Universal Primordial Substance, of which I have spoken in a former chapter[see The Creative Power of Thought --- Ed]. This All-underlying Life is forever expressing itself through Form; but the Form is not the Life, and it is from not seeing this that so much confusion arises.

The Universal Life-Principle, simply as such, finds expression as much in one form as another, and is just as active in the scattered particles which once made a human body as it was in those particles when they cohered together in the living man; this is merely the well-recognised scientific truth of the Conservation of Energy.

Life Power Higher Than Atomic Power

On the other hand, we cannot help perceiving that there is something in the individual which exercises a greater power than the perpetual energy residing in the ultimate atoms; for otherwise what is it that maintains in our bodies for perhaps a century the unstable equilibrium of atomic forces which, when that something is withdrawn, cannot continue for twenty-four hours? Is this something another something than that which is at work as the perpetual energy within the atoms? No, for otherwise there would be two originating powers in the Universe, and if our study of the Bible teaches us anything, it is that the Originating Power is only ONE; and we must therefore conceive of the Power we are examining as the same Power that resides in the ultimate atoms, only now