, etc.
So far as we can think, the ether is a manifest, perhaps a primary
manifest, of Infinite and Eternal Reality.
It is coming to be scientific to hold that matter reduces in its
last analysis to electricity and is a complex form of vibrations
of the ether within the ether. Matter is not merely pervaded by
the ether; it is a state of the ether.
Matter, then, is a manifest of Infinite and Eternal Reality.
Life is a phase of the activity of matter. If we think of matter
in its grossest form, nearest to us in the process of evolution,
life may be regarded as an entity different from that matter. We
do somehow feel that matter and life are distinct realities. But
if we think of matter as a complex form of etheric vibrations,
nothing forbids our saying that life also is a form of vibration
of the ether within the ether. With this view in mind, we shall
think of matter and life as comparatively simultaneous manifests
of the ether, life, however, appearing only when the state of
etheric vibrations resulting in matter has reached a stage in
which vibrations resulting in life can be possible.
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