The living universe / by Sir Francis Younghusband.

  • Francis Younghusband
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[1933]
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Credit: The living universe / by Sir Francis Younghusband. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of years ago, though life had not appeared here, it was thriving on many another planet in other parts of the universe. Under the dominant control of the cosmic genius the parts would be constantly acting upon one another. The ordering activity of the whole, through the innumerable parts, great and small, all over the universe interacting with one another, would bring about on many another planet besides this earth the conditions suitable for the emergence of primordial germs of various types of life—here protoplasm, there proto something else. But all with that same characteristic of life, the capacity to grow, and multiply, and develop, and vary. The living beings on one planet would under the domi¬ nant control of the Cosmic Genius stimulate the beings on all other planets. Those on a lower level might for long ages be unaware of the stimuli that were impinging upon them. But, at last, under the impact of these stimuli an organ would be developed enabling the recipient to receive and respond to the stimuli, just as our eyes have been developed to receive and respond to the stimulus of light. Through energy in its different forms, in¬ cluding its highest form, namely spiritual influence, being communicated from one part of the universe to all others, however distant they may be, and even though it may take a million years to reach the one from the other, living beings would be continually raised in the scale of beings. As the sensitivity and initiative of the responding agents developed they would become tuned to the higher levels. These are my grounds for supposing that living
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