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The Fourth Lesson: The Unity of Life.753
The Fourth Lesson: The Unity of Life.
In our First Lesson of this series we spoke of the One Reality underlying
all Life. This One Reality was stated to be higher than mind or matter, the
nearest term that can be applied to it being “Spirit.” We told you that it
was impossible to explain just what “Spirit” is, for we have nothing else with
which to compare or describe it, and it can be expressed only in its own
terms, and not in the terms applicable to its emanations or manifestations.
But, as we said in our First Lesson, we may think of “Spirit” as meaning the
“essence” of Life and Being—the Reality underlying Universal Life, and from
which the latter emanates.
In the Second Lesson we stated that this “Spirit,” which we called “The
Absolute,” expressed itself in the Universal Life, which Universal Life
manifested itself in countless forms of life and activity. In the same lesson we
showed you that the Universe is alive—that there is not a single dead thing
in it—that there can be no such thing as a dead object in the Universe, else
the theory and truth of the One underlying Life must fall and be rejected.
In that lesson we also showed you that even in the world of inorganic things
there was ever manifest life—in every atom and particle of inorganic matter
there is the universal life energy manifesting itself, and in constant activity.