Thus only can the logoic personality express itself, and our knowledge of His nature is consequently limited by our close perspective, and handicapped by the fact that we are participants in His life, and integral parts of His manifestation. Only when this is the case do we understand the function of the Lord Agni as the vital life of the cosmic etheric, as the vitality of the Heavenly Men and the activity of Their sheaths. The Life and the Lives . The expression employed by Science 'inorganic substance' means simply that the latent life, slumbering in the molecules of so-called 'inert matter' is incognisable. Everything lives and is conscious , but all life and consciousness is not similar to the human.
Life is the one form of existence manifesting in matter.
Matter is the vehicle for the manifesting of soul. Soul is the vehicle for the manifesting of Spirit. Life of the 2nd Logos - animating the forms, or aggregate of atoms. Life of the 1st Logos - animating the composite forms. The one Life synthesizes this triplicity.