Course XXXVII - Teaching 1: Life

The Spirit manifests in the Universe by means of Life.
Man is the prototype of Life on Earth.
Life is always Mind, Energy and Matter. This Law can be observed as much in Macrocosm as in microcosm, as much in a man as in an atom.
Universal Life, daughter of the Soul of the Cosmos, is the great body of the Spirit of the Universe. This vast universal body has inseparable parts, although seemingly independent from each other, in planetary chains. At a time, planetary chains have their material parts in different planets: and the physical bodies of all men on Earth, are a part of the physical body of the latter. So, it is also molecular and atomic Life.
Atoms keeping life of man on Earth are:
1.- Ponderable atoms. They give material Life and attract each other constantly.
2.- Imponderable atoms. They keep mental Life and repel each other.
3.- Dynamic atoms. Alternatively, they are ponderable and imponderable; and keep energetic Life. Atoms sustain each other by tension, relaxation and balance.
In every atom prevails certain aspect of Life, but all other aspects are potentially in it. Constitutive atoms of life of man are:
1.- Solid atoms. Their form is square.
2.- Liquid atoms. Their form is semi-lunar inverted.
3.- Luminous atoms. Their form is triangular.
These belong to the group of ponderable atoms.
4.- Gaseous atoms. Their form is spiral.
5.- Magnetic atoms. Their form is circular.
6.- Radioactive atoms.
These belong to the group of dynamic atoms.
7.- Mental atoms.
The superman could count with:
8.- Mental atoms of long wave, or Will.
9.- Mental atoms of short wave, or Consciousness.
Mental atoms, mental atoms of long way and mental atoms of short wave belong to the group of imponderable atoms.
All atoms mentioned in this Teaching are of subtle matter, still unknown to biologists, for they cannot be discovered by present physical and chemical procedures.
All these atoms can be called atoms X, to differentiate them from those atoms known, named atoms H. Atoms X are generated by other atoms, of subtler nature, called atoms X2.