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What is the origin of life?
OTHSTTOX No. 171.
Answer: When that question is asked a scientist, he
will commence to tell us about protoplasm, protyle or some-
thing else of a like nature, but that is fen*1
}. No matter
how small, insignificant and simple that form may be, it
is still a form, and from the occultist's point of view, the
question is poorly put, for the spirit is, WAS and WILL
ALWAYS BE. As Sir Edwin Arnold says in his beautiful
poem, "The Song
Celestial" :
"Never the spirit was born, the spirit shall cease to
never :
Never was time it was not end and beginning are
dreams,
Birthless and deathless remaineth the spirit forever;
Death has not touched it at all uead though the house
of it seems.
"Nay. hut as one layeth his worn out robe away,
And taking another sayeth, "This will I wear today';
So putteth by the spirit lightly its garment of flesh
And passeth on to inherit a residence afresh."
It is life that builds the forms and uses them for a time
in orrlcT that it may progress thereby. When their useful-