What is the principle of life?

What is the principle of life?

What you term matter is only one of the forms in which spirit—or better, the principle of life—manifests itself. It is the most real of all forms to you who dwell in the realms of such manifestations, of course, because the most tangible—because, in short, it is that of which you are a part, a fraction, a unit. When you escape from that form to one more condensed, refined, you may wonder how anything so coarse, thin, vapory as what you call matter could seem solid, tangible, real!

The northeastern United States and the well-lit coasts of New Jersey, New York and Connecticut as photographed by Expedition 54 crew members aboard the International Space Station in the wee hours of New Year’s Day, 1 January 2018