248 ROSICRUCIANCOSMO-CONCEPTION
galvanizing the negative Form into action, but both Life and
Form originated in Spirit, Space, Chaos!
To get an idea from everyday life which will illustrate,
we may take the hatching of an egg. The egg is filled with a
moderately viscous fluid. This fluid, or moisture, is
subjected to heat, and out of the soft, fluidic substance
comes a living chick, with hard bones and comparatively
hard flesh, and with down that has a comparatively hard
quill, etc.
When a living chick can come out of the inert fluid of an
egg without the addition of any hardening substance from
outside, is it a far-fetched idea to claim that the universe is
crystallized Space or Spirit? There is no doubt that the claim
will seem foolish to many; but this book is not for the
purpose of convincing the world at large that these things
are. It is intended to aid those who inherently feel that these
things must be and to help them to see the light upon this
great World-mystery, which the writer has been permitted to
behold. The sp ecial ob ject at pres ent is to show t hat Spirit is
active all the time—in one way during Manifestation, and in
another during Chaos.
Modern science would sneer at the idea that life could
exist upon a Globe which is in the process of formation.
That is because science cannot diss ociate Life and For m and
cannot conceive of Form except as solid and tangible—
cognizable by one of our five physical senses.
The occult scientist, in accordance with the above
definitions of Life and Form, holds that life may exist
independently of Concrete Form; may have Forms not
perceptible to our present limited senses, and amenable to
none of the laws which apply to this present concrete state of
matter.
It is true that the Nebular Theory holds that all exist ence