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A Series of Lessons in Gnani Yoga726
matter does when similarly poisoned. When revived in time by an antidote,
the recovery was similarly gradual in both metal and muscle. A remarkable
fact is noted by the scientist when he tells us that the very poisons that kill
the metals are themselves alive and may be killed, drugged, stimulated,
etc., showing the same response as in the case of the metals, proving the
existence in them of the same life that is in the metals and animal matter that
they influence.
Of course when these metals are “killed” there is merely a killing of the
metal as metal—the atoms and principles of which the metal is composed
remaining fully alive and active, just as is the case with the atom of the human
body after the soul passes out—the body is as much alive after death as
during the life of the person, the activity of the parts being along the lines
of dissolution instead of construction in that case.
We hear much of the claims of scientists who announce that they are on
the eve of “creating life” from non-living matter. This is all nonsense—life
can come only from life. Life from non-life is an absurdity. And all Life comes
from the One Life underlying All. But it is true that Science has done, is
doing, and will do, something very much like “creating life,” but of course
this is merely changing the form of Life into other forms—the lesser form
into the higher—just as one produces a plant from a seed, or a fruit from
a plant. The Life is always there, and responds to the proper stimulus and
conditions.
A number of scientists are working on the problem of generating living
forms from inorganic matter. The old idea of “spontaneous generation,” for
many years relegated to the scrap-pile of Science, is again coming to the
front. Although the theory of Evolution compels its adherents to accept the
idea that at one time in the past living forms sprung from the non-living (socalled),
yet it has been generally believed that the conditions which brought
about this stage of evolution has forever passed. But the indications now
all point to the other view that this stage of evolution is, and always has
been, in operation, and that new forms of life are constantly evolving from