The Life Spark and the Soul Spark 



human body and they form the most important ingredients 

 in the bodies of all plants and animals. One of the theories 

 advanced in an attempt to account for the origin of life is 

 that a meteor falling from the sky gathered a proper com- 

 bination of chemical elements together with a sufficient 

 amount of heat to generate the first life spark and set the 

 first life cell in motion. The fallacy of this theory is self- 

 evident. It implies a creative force before the first life spark 

 came into being for from whence came the elements through 

 which the life forces work and the meteor and the force that 

 pulled it down? We know that there is the power of 

 Thought — Mind — behind every achievement in Cultural 

 Evolution. Man has recorded these thoughts for the benefit 

 of others. These thoughts are invisible and intangible but 

 yet they are of such great force that they change the habits, 

 customs and the destiny of the human race. 



The acts of setting the type, making the plates, and print- 

 ing the book upon whose pages a masterpiece of literature 

 is recorded are mechanical processes and yet these processes 

 are directed by Thought. It is just as reasonable to assert 

 that a ton of printer's type poured from a tall building, will 

 in the process of the fall, assume the proper arrangement, 

 letter for letter, ready to reproduce a literary classic without 

 the aid of a guiding hand or creative thought. Every great 

 painting and work of sculptured art must first be conceived 

 in invisible and intangible form in the artist's brain before the 

 pigments are spread upon the canvas and the marble chiseled 

 into images of life. The chemical elements and the physical 

 forces of Nature were created and set up as preliminary steps 

 in the preparation for life. This statement implies a crea- 



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