We should then
say that life is a product of etheric vibrations emerging through
those that have resulted in matter; that is, life is a product of
material activities. This view cannot justly be called materialism
because Life is, then, also a manifest of Infinite and Eternal
Reality.
We do not scientifically know any sort of mind that is not
exhibited through matter. The human mind always exhibits through a
human body. What we call mind is a complex of states of
consciousness engaged in various activities. Consciousness
involves certain physical activities within us. If nothing were
acting within, we should not be conscious. This has always been
true. The first dawn of consciousness in Nature involved
activities within the organism. If we think of that first faintly
conscious existence as a mass of crude matter, then the self and
its body will appear to be distinctly separated in reality. But if
we think of that body as a manifest of etheric vibrations in which
life-vibrations also obtained, there is nothing to forbid our
saying that consciousness was equally a product of such
vibrations.
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