Man Know Thyself
Life After Death
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themselves in order”, then it follows that it should
survive only so long as this orderliness endured,
and it should conversely be possible for an expert
scientist to create life by an accumulation of these
elements; obviously, both these propositions are
ludicrous.
We observe that it is not only those who have been
torn limb from limb in some accident, who die. In
every condition and at every age people are passing
away. Sometimes perfectly healthy human beings
suffer sudden heart-failure and no doctor can
provide an explanation. We may regard a corpse as
an “orderly, elemental manifestation”, but the soul
which inhabited it has departed. All elements are
arranged in the same order as they were a few
minutes beforehand, but they are utterly lifeless.
This shows that the organization of elemental
matter does not create life, rather life is an entirely
separate entity.
A live human being cannot be produced in a
laboratory, though such a physical form can readily
be formulated. We have ascertained that the
particles which compose a live body consist of
