62 THE UNIVERSE 



gling animalculae in the stagnant water is but a 

 prototype of the writhing serpent of the Brazilian 

 forest. In these two types of minute organic being 

 we see the first stages of life in planetary forma- 

 tion. And the induced electric energy on the animal- 

 culine organism compelled it to both growth and 

 activity, and, obedient to that principle, it added cell 

 to cell in any direction that that electric energy in 

 that form sought relief, thus producing different 

 types of organic structure. The influence of the 

 pent-up currents of electric energy was destined to 

 have a moulding power upon the higher types of 

 organic life, for their influence upon the living form 

 soon became manifest in the construction of nerve- 

 tissue, which is the basis of all animal structure, and 

 the beginning of all embryotic form, and is essen- 

 tially the same in all organic life. 



All attempts of science to formulate a theory of 

 the source of life end in an abstraction. To teach 

 that life originates in a germ leads to an analysis 

 that shows the germ is a compound form itself, and 

 one of the stages of incipient life. The advocate of 

 the cell as the primitive source of life soon discovers 

 that the cell is the result of chemical forces that 

 have not yet arrived at the germ state, and that 

 both the germ and the cell are but successive stages 

 of life development, and we must go further back 

 into the realm of the invisible electro-magnetic 

 forces for the true source of physical life. Here the 

 untrained intellect is bewildered and is unable to 

 discern any relation of force beyond the physical 

 senses, and science and reasoning causation must 

 explore the invisible realities, and realms of force 

 beyond the physical senses, which requires the high- 



