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Life, the occultist says, is the eternal uncreated energy, and it alone
represents in the infinite universe, that which the physicists have
agreed to name the principle, or the law of continuity, though they
apply it only to the endless development of the conditioned.
But since modern science admits, through her most learned professors,
that "energy has as much claim to be regarded as an objective reality as
matter itself"** and as life, according to the occult doctrine, is the
one energy acting, Proteus-like, under the most varied forms, the
occultists have a certain right to use such phraseology. Life is ever
present in the atom or matter, whether organic or inorganic--a
difference that the occultists do not accept. Their doctrine is that
life is as much present in the inorganic as in the organic matter: when
life-energy is active in the atom, that atom is organic; when dormant
or latent, then the atom is inorganic.
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* Though there is a distinct term for it in the language of the adepts,
how can one translate it into a European language? What name can be
given to that which is objective yet immaterial in its finite
manifestations, subjective yet substantive (though not in our sense of
substance) in its eternal existence? Having explained it the best we
can, we leave the task of finding a more appropriate term for it to our
learned English occultists.
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