IO2 Evolution of Life and Form. 



may have a vehicle capable of responding to every 

 vibration that it sets up or that it receives. As 

 the vibrations become subtler and subtler in their 

 character, sheath after sheath becomes active and 

 responsive, and enables the life to function exter- 

 nally by means of the sheath. L,et us however turn 

 for that will be fully worked out to-morrow to 

 the next great life- wave with which we are con- 

 cerned ; it is the life of the second aspect of Deity, 

 spoken of in Hinduism as the life of Vishnu, spoken 

 of in Christianity as the life of the Son of God by 

 whom all things were made. As that life outpours 

 into the universe prepared to receive it, as that life 

 begins to draw together the matter which, vivified 

 by the first out-pouring, is now ready to respond 

 to the vibrations of the life that organises and sus- 

 tains, vibrations are sent out by this Divine L,ife 

 into the higher regions of the universe, beginning 

 the task of drawing the matter together into forms. 

 The earliest stages of these are the ante-types of 

 what shall be in evolution not such forms as we 

 speak of in the lower world, concrete objects which 

 can give rise to concrete ideas, but that which dimly 

 we are trying to reach in the mind to-day, when 

 we abstract from a great class of concrete objects 

 its uniting quality, its common characteristic, and 

 formulate this apart from the objects themselves. 



