52 CELL INTELLIGENCE THE CAUSE OF EVOLUTION 



A being that is invisible is called a spirit. The cell is 

 now no longer the spiritual being which he was a few 

 years ago, but is a material living being. We can now see 

 this being in charge and that he is the cause of matter 

 growing into a plant or animal. He is the cause in the 

 same manner as man is the cause of bricks and stones 

 growing into a house. The designers and builders of 

 plants and animals were to us spiritual beings because we 

 could not see them. In the same way the designers and 

 builders of skyscrapers and battleships would be spiritual 

 beings to us if we could not get near enough to the struc- 

 tures to see the builders. The builders of the cell are at this 

 time passing from the spiritual condition into the mate- 

 rial, because at this time we can just barely see them and 

 not plainly enough to be able to say just what they are. 

 We find the cell is no primitive organism. He is again a 

 colony of primordial beings, which are, in fact, the real 

 actors and workers. 



The cell is an animal that has evolved naturally from 

 the smaller primordial beings in the same mariner that 

 plants and animals have come to exist by natural evolu- 

 tion of the cell. It would seem that the cells who can 

 make food and building material by the aid of heat from 

 the sun, came into existence first. It is not likely that 

 the heat from the sun was used by the cells until after 

 the earth had cooled down to a certain temperature. It 

 is likely that the heat used by the cells ages ago in the 

 huge production of vegetable matter disclosed by the 

 coal deposits was the heat from the earth and not the 

 sun. It is generally understood that life cannot exist 

 without sunlight, air, water and food, but it begins to 

 appear now that life can exist almost indefinitely with- 

 out any of these. The seeds from many plants, I know 

 from my own knowledge, can live from five to fifteen 



